By all accounts, China’s ecommerce market is booming. Chinese customers spent more than $670 billion online in 2015, a more than 40 percent increase from 2014.

This issue marks the first of a regular series of US-China Business Council (USCBC) reports analyzing key discussions and decisions of China’s bimonthly National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Meetings, the most recent of which concluded on November 4.