Beijing Stresses Importance of Export Controls in Gov't Conference

Beijing held a national conference on export controls last week, where government officials summarized Chinese export control actions over the past year and “studied and arranged the next key tasks,” according to an unofficial translation of a notice from China’s commerce ministry. Officials called for an “improvement of the modern national export control system” and added that export controls play “an increasingly important role in safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests and promoting high-quality development of trade,” the ministry said.

The conference was held less than a month after China’s State Council passed a set of revised draft regulations for dual-use export controls (see 2409190007) and after China rolled out recent export restrictions for a range of dual-use technologies (see 2407310015) and critical minerals (see 2408150022, 2307050018, 2310030035 and 2408090012).