The ESCR Committee considered the Chinese Report on the Implementation of ICESCR for the second time on May 8, 2014. During the last reporting period, China had made tremendous achievements in such areas as the formulation of a National Human Rights Action Plan, abolishment of the Re-education Through Labor system, fulfillment of the right to security and free compulsory education. Compared with the last consideration, the ESCR Committee raised in this consideration many old issues concerning establishment of a national human rights institution, direct application of the ICESCR and trade union rights as well as a few new ones such as human rights protection in carrying out foreign aid or investment projects in developing countries. Nevertheless, the ESCR Committee also made a few suggestions that are not entirely appropriate in terms of the household registration system and family planning policy in China. There is also a room for the Chinese delegation to improve in describing the real situation of the Chinese legal system more accurately.