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Constant updating on new regulations of the Chinese legal system.  Not only laws, but also administrative regulations and documents of a political nature with a direct link to the law.  The new regulations are selected to facilitate the knowledge of specific sectors of particular importance, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.  The translation into English of document titles in Chinese language has the sole purpose of facilitating the search for the document or topic on the Internet.


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China Leads on Regulation of Artificial Generative Intelligence

Published on 12/09/2023

On July 13, 2023 the Cyberspace Administration of China published the “Interim Measures for the Management o ...

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Legislation Law amended

Published on 20/03/2023

Compared to the previous text of the Law (2015), the changes are many and relate to the content, number and nu ...

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China’s new Foreign Trade Law

Published on 25/01/2023

On 30 December 2022, the National People’s Congress revised the Foreign Trade Law ( 外贸易法), whose fir ...

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Outbound Data Transfer Security Assessment Measures effective 1st Sept...

Published on 29/09/2022

China’s “Outbound Data Transfer Security Assessment Measures, 数据出境安全评估办法, below “the ...

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The new Anti-monopoly Law of the PRC, effective August 1, 2022

Published on 28/07/2022

On June 24, 2022, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has approved the “Decision of the ...

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The Standing Committee's Legislative Work Plan 2022.

Published on 16/05/2022

On May 6, 2022, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ("NPC") released the NPC Standing Com ...

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Interpretation by the Supreme People's Court of Several Issues Concern...

Published on 29/03/2022

The Interpretation consists of 39 articles, divided into nine sections, concerning both general and more speci ...

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China publishes new Negative List, effective 1 January 202

Published on 04/01/2022

On December 27, 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce published th ...

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Trademark Examination and Trial Guidelines

Published on 27/11/2021

On november 16, 2021 the “China National Intellectual Property Administration” (国家知识产权局), ha ...

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Supreme People's Court issues six guiding cases in the field of contra...

Published on 18/11/2021

On November 11th, 2021, the Supreme People's Court issued the “30th batch of 6 guiding cases” in the field ...

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The new Privacy Law comes into effect

Published on 07/11/2021

On November 1st, 2021, came into effect the “Personal Information Protection Law”, ( 个人信息保护法 ...

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Development Plan of Utilizing Foreign Capital during the 14th Five-Yea...

Published on 26/10/2021

On October 22, 2021 the Ministry of Commerce has published the ­“Development Plan of Utilizing Foreign Capi ...

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Development Plan on Intellectual Property Law (2021-2035)

Published on 27/09/2021

On 22nd September 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of State Affairs have pub ...

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Data Security Law

Published on 27/08/2021

On the 10th of June 2021, the National People Congress has approved the Data Security Law, (DSL) effective fro ...

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