The Shanghai People's Congress, the city's legislature, has specified the relaxed rules announced earlier for the Pudong New Area.

On June 10, the standing committee of the National People's Congress authorized the SPC and its standing committee to tailor-make laws for Pudong in accordance with the constitution and the basic principles of laws and regulations.

This was unprecedented in Shanghai because the new area, as one of the administrative units of Shanghai, was supposed to be ruled only by laws made for the whole of the city besides national laws.