The Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (SMPC) exercises the following functions according to the stipulations in the “Constitution of the People's Republic of China” and the “Organic Law of Local People's Congresses and Local People's Governments of the People's Republic of China”:

1. to ensure the observance and execution of the Constitution, laws, administrative rules and regulations, and the resolutions made by the people's congress at the higher level and its standing committee within the administrative area and guarantee the implementation of national plans and budgets;

2. to formulate and promulgate local laws and regulations under the precondition of not contravening the Constitution, laws, and administrative rules and regulations in accordance with specific conditions and actual needs of the administrative area, and submit them to the standing committee of the National People's Congress and the State Council for the record;

The Standing Committee of the 14th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress (SMPC) held its 20th meeting on April 15 to 16 to deliberate amendments to Shanghai’s Regulations on the Protection of the Rights of Seniors, the Regulations on Collective Labor Contract and the Regulations on Urban Management and Law Enforcement.