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handle is hein.llcr/locaftl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE 3 REPUBLIC OF C1INA (PRC) Introduction In the past people have wondered, with some just fication, whether the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a lawless country. For until July 1979, when it promulgated both a criminal code and a code of criminal pro- cedure, this civil law country--a category associated with principal and comprehensive codes--lacked codes altogether. In that year, however, the government for the first time in its history enacted not only new codes 1 but also five other major laws. One of the five, a joint veiture law, became effective in July 1979; the other four laws and the t°w codes became effective on January 1, 1980. In 1979 the Legal Affairs Commission was also established under the Standing Committee of the Niational People' s Congress, then headed by Peng Zhen, one of the major victims of the Gui- 2 tural Revolution. And since that time, the Legal Affairs CTission has accelerated its activity in drafting new laws and amending oEld ones. This abundanc£e of legislation passed by the post-Mao leadership g Ives people much less reason than before to conclude that the PRO is a land without law. Renewed attention to the production of legislation is one aspect of strengthening the legal system, a major policy of the post-M4ao leader- ship and the regime headed by Deng Xiaoping. In fact strengthening the legal system is probably the most popular slogan in China after marching toward the four modernizations. Our discussion of the PRC's legal develop- ment proceeds according to the following plan. First, it presents a period~ ization of the development of the PRC's legal system in order to provide a general background on Comunist Chinese law. Second, it treats some of the * Prepared by Tao-tai Hsia with the assistance of Charlotte Hambley, the Far Eastern Law Division of the Library of Congress.

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