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China Mulls Lifelong Ban for Actors Who Have Used Drugs

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Rebecca Davis editorChina’s top law-making body will consider this week a popular proposition to ban actors who have used drugs from entertainment industry for life at its annual weeklong meeting, which kicked off Friday.The National People’s Congress, the country’s rubber stamp parliament, counts some 3,000 professionals from across the country as delegates, including directors Jia Zhangke, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige, as well as Jackie Chan and Yao Ming.

It meets every year in Beijing.While many proposals that end up going nowhere are bandied about ahead of the meeting by delegates with almost no pull, this one from lawyer Zhu Lieyu, who heads the Guangdong Guoding Law Firm, merits attention for having sparked a whirlwind of online.

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