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17 US-China L. Rev. 317 (2020)
The Civil Code of People's Republic of China: Major Features and Contributions to the World

handle is hein.journals/uschinalrw17 and id is 316 raw text is: US-China Law Review, August 2020, Vol. 17, No. 8, 317-330 doi: 10.17265/1548-6605/2020.08.001 PUBLISHING The Civil Code of the People's Republic of China: Major Features and Contributions to the World* LI Shaohua Party School of Wuhan Municipal Party Committee of CPC, Wuhan, China XIAO Peng Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China After decades of preparation, China ultimately enacted the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, and this Code exerts significant influence on the international community. The Code is distinguished from civil codes of other countries by its philosophy of codification, structure, systems, principles, and specific provisions. Revolving around civil rights stipulated in the Civil Code, this article selects and analyzes a portion of provisions to throw light on the real right system's characteristics of the era and of China. This paper aims to underline the importance of laying special emphasis on maintaining personal dignity, and discuss the necessity of actively adapting laws for the development of extensive IT application. This paper sets forth how the part on contracts functions as general provisions of the part on the law of obligations and how the part on tort liability protects all the rights enshrined in the preceding six parts, as well as the ensuing advantages. This paper also clarifies the features of the Civil Code, and summarizes the unique contributions made by the Civil Code to the world. Keywords: Civil Code, real rights, personality rights, contracts, tort liability Introduction On May 28, 2020, the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (hereafter referred to as the Civil Code) was passed at the third session of the 13th National People's Congress. The Civil Code is comprised of 1,260 articles in seven parts, namely, general provisions, real rights, contracts, personality rights, marriage and family, succession and tort liability, as well as supplementary provisions. The Civil Code is the first Chinese law that is titled code after the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded. It blazes a trail in the field of code codification in China, and therefore is widely acclaimed as a milestone in the development of China's legal system.' * Acknowledgements: This research is supported by the General Research Funds of the 2019 Hubei Provincial Plan for Education Sciences (Grant Number 2019GB012) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Scientific Research Cultivation) Class C, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Grant Number 73). LI Shaohua, Ph.D. in Law, editor in charge, Party School of Wuhan Municipal Party Committee of CPC, Wuhan, China. XIAO Peng, Corresponding author, Ph.D. in Law, associate professor, School of Foreign Studies, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China. E-mail: xiaopeng@zuel.edu.cn. 1 Explanatory notes to the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (draft) made by Wang Chen, vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee at the third session of the 13th National People's Congress on May 22, 2020.

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