This extensive and comprehensive work is a thorough reference and guide to all major areas of business law and investment in the People's Republic of China.
This chapter attempts to make sense of the fundamentals of the civil law system as it is practiced in China today, to explain the central and coordinating role civil law has over special areas of law, as well as to illustrate a few specific areas of civil law, which are not discussed in other chapters.
The Chinese public sees corruption, local protectionism, favoritism, abuse of power, and a lack of professionalism endemic in the courts.
The PRC is a unitary, not a federated state—state power being an indivisible whole. This means that all major legislation should originate from the central power organs.
Although the antipathy of Confucians and China's imperial rulers may have prevented the development of a cohesive legal profession, persons with legal skills did have a role to play in society.
The Chinese government has sought to jibe its domestic economic development objectives with its foreign investment program by implementing preferential policies in targeted geographic areas.
