According to a number of US media reports, the House of Representatives of the US Congress passed a draft legislation aimed at depriving China of its status as a "developing country" with 415 votes in favor and 0 votes against on the 27th local time. The US "Capitol Hill" reported that the draft legislation, entitled "The People's Republic of China is not a developing country", requires the US Secretary of State to commit to depriving China of its "developing country" status in international organizations with the participation of the United States, and to revise China's relevant status to "upper-middle-income country", "high-income country" or "developed country", while opposing the continued recognition of China as a "developing country" in any international agreements and treaties. The draft also requires the U.S. Secretary of State to develop a mechanism to achieve this goal.

Moreover, the draft requires senior U.S. diplomats to prevent China from receiving any preferential treatment in international organizations by virtue of its status as a "developing country." One of the Republican lawmakers who introduced the draft legislation claimed that China is the world's second-largest economy after the United States, so since the United States is treated as a developed country, so should China.