• Order of the President of the People's Republic of China

• 中华人民共和国主席令

• (No.18)
• （第十八号）

• The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Some Laws, which was adopted at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on August 27, 2009, is hereby promulgated, and shall come into force on the date of promulgation.
• 《全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于修改部分法律的决定》已由中华人民共和国第十一届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十次会议于2009年8月27日通过，现予公布，自公布之日起施行。

• President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao
• 中华人民共和国主席　胡锦涛

• August 27, 2009
• 2009年8月27日

• Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Some Laws
• 全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于修改部分法律的决定

• (Adopted at the 10th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on August 27, 2009)
• （2009年8月27日第十一届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十次会议通过）

• It is decided at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress that:
• 第十一届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十次会议决定：

• I. The provisions that obviously go against the socialist market economic and social development demands in the following laws shall be amended.
• 　　一、对下列法律中明显不适应社会主义市场经济和社会发展要求的规定作出修改

• 1. Article 7 of the General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China shall be amended as: “Civil activities shall have respect for social ethics and shall not harm the public interest or disrupt social economic order.”
• 1.　将《中华人民共和国民法通则》第七条修改为：“民事活动应当尊重社会公德，不得损害社会公共利益，扰乱社会经济秩序。”

• Item 6, Paragraph 1 of Article 58 shall be deleted.
• 删去第五十八条第一款第六项。