China’s National People’s Congress reviewed and passed the reform plan of the governmental branches in March. With the implementation of the reform plan, the former Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has been replaced by the newly established Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). Additionally, the former State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) was replaced by the new Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM). However, in the past half year, in practical terms the largescale institutional reform has not as yet occasioned any big changes to work duties, compliance requirements and general market access requirements.