(Adopted by the 21st Session of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on August 29, 1996; amended for the first time in accordance with the Decision of the Tenth Session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress Concerning Amendment to Some Laws on August 27,2009; amended for the second time in accordance with the Decision of the 20th Session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress Concerning Amendment to the Coal Industry Law of the People's Republic of China on April 22, 2011; and amended for the third time in accordance with the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China and Other Eleven Laws as adopted at the Third Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress on June 29, 2013)