BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has stressed the significance of the Civil Code as the Civil Code of China came into force on Friday.
The following are some highlights from his quotes:
1) – The Civil Code is the first law with the term “code” in the title since New China was founded. 2) – The promulgation and implementation of the Civil Code realized a long-expected wish of several generations. 3) – The Civil Code holds an important position in the Chinese socialist system of laws. 4) – The Civil Code systematically integrates the civil legal norms formed through long-term practices during more than 70 years of New China, drawing upon the Chinese nation’s fine legal culture going back more than 5,000 years, and mankind’s beneficial achievements in building a law-based civilization.
5) – The Civil Code embodies the equal protection of rights in various areas including safeguarding life and health, property safety, convenient transactions, people’s happiness and dignity.
China’s Civil Code: China’s first-ever Civil Code comes into force on January 1, 2021. The new law provides legal protection to all kinds of private rights, responding to major public concerns and putting people’s interests at the center.
The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China will be China’s first law with “code” in its name, and become the law with the most articles in the country.
The law is a wide-ranging legislative package that includes 1,260 articles in seven parts: general provisions, property, contracts, personality rights, marriage and family, inheritance and tort liability.
The law, as a declaration on the protection of civil rights, covers most civil acts in a person’s life. It introduces new articles that respond to many social concerns that have recently arisen in the country, such as the infringement of portrait rights in face swapping videos and privacy violations on the excessive collection of personal information by mobile phone apps.
With the law’s implementation, some relevant civil institutions have introduced corresponding regulations or made adjustments.
The Civil Code was adopted by the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress on May 28, 2020. China’s national leaders said the law better protects the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese people.
