Chinalawinfo Co., Ltd. is a hi-tech legal information company established by the prestigious Peking University on the basis of its Legal Information Center. The Legal Information Center of Peking University is the first Chinese pioneer to develop Chinese laws in electronic database and a computer-assisted legal research system for Chinese law. Since 1985, we have continuously developed Chinese laws and regulations databases and extended our services to include law-related software development, online degree education of law, legal translation, legal consultation, etc.

Chinalawinfo Co., Ltd. strives to provide the most comprehensive and user-friendly databases for Chinese legal information to our users. At present, we have one database in Chinese-English language and three databases in Chinese language.

Our services for English database

☆Laws & Regulations Database (English Version) www.lawinfochina.com

Lawinfochina.com is one of our major products, which strives to give you access to English-language versions of all the relevant documents for your legal needs in China. Our flagship Laws & Regulations and Cases databases as well as our Legal News and Legal information databases provide you with full-text access to a huge array of legal information tailored specifically to the needs of foreigners and foreign organizations working in China. To further supplement these resources, our Gazettes and Law Journals databases allow you to view the complete table of contents of the official gazettes of various government entities as well as a variety of Chinese legal journals. If these resources are not enough, we offer translation services as well as a broad array of Chinese-language services.

There are more notes and links in the Chinese text, but we only provide English translations for the main contents of the Chinese text, so you may find that there are no English translations for the additional notes and links in the Chinese text. Please pay attention to this when you use our database.

1.Laws & Regulations

The Laws & Regulations Database includes thousands of Chinese laws, regulations, rules, judicial interpretations, local regulations, and local rules in more than ninety legal areas. Its current collections include the following: All laws adopted by the National People's Congress (NPC) and the NPC Standing Committee from 1949 to the present;

All the administrative regulations promulgated by the State Council from 1949 to the present;

Most of the important administrative rules or orders promulgated or approved by the agencies under the State Council and independent agencies such as the Securities Regulatory Commission;

Important judicial interpretations that substantially influence legal practices and are recognized as an indispensable part of the original Chinese laws and regulations; and,Important local regulations and rules that impact foreign-related activities issued by the various municipalities including those directly under the central government, provinces, autonomous regions, special economic zones and some provincial capitals.

2.Cases

The Case Law Database contains the English translations of typical judicial decisions approved and published by the Supreme People's Court or the Supreme People's Procuratorate in the areas of administrative disputes, civil disputes, criminal offences, economic disputes, intellectual property law and maritime disputes. Each case is an editorially-enhanced document that contains the case background, facts, parties, trial and appellate court procedure, reasoning and law application, and of course the court decision. Cases are chosen to reflect both current and predicted future trends in Chinese legal practice.

3.Tax Treaties

Tax treaties are an important part of the tax law and the legal basis for corporations as well as tax lawyers to plan taxes. The database of Sino-foreign tax treaties includes all the presently effective tax treaties the Chinese government has entered into with foreign governments (including China’s Hong Kong SAR) in both Chinese and English languages.

4.Gazettes (title index)

Gazettes are official publications containing regulations and documents related to the legislative history of regulations, such as explanations, reports, deliberations, speeches, circulars, notices and so forth. This database allows you to search or browse the table of contents of a number of the most important official gazettes published by the Chinese central government bodies, such as the State Council, the NPC, and the Supreme People’s Court.

5.Legal News

It contains all the important legal news reports since 2000. This database is a good source to track current legal events and legislative developments in China.

6.WTO and China

China is a member of the WTO. China’s accession to the WTO means that it is a market country and is bound by the WTO rules. This database consists of the major WTO legal rules relating to China.

7.Law Journals(title index)

The Law Journals database allows you to search or browse the table of contents of leading Chinese Law Journals in Chinese and in some cases in both English and Chinese.

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Law Journal Database, jointly launched by Peking University Legal Information Center and Beijing ChinaLawInfo Co. Ltd., is a specialized database providing law journal services for those engaging in the legal practice, study and research. This database is orientated to the consolidation of law journal resources, focused on the provision of specialized services, and committed to the continuing success of a specialized law journal database. The law journals admitted by this database must be influential core law journals, and the content of a law journal covers not only the current issue but also all back issues, and at the same time, careful sorting and detailed categorization are made by the content of articles. The multiple methods for accessing these law journals enable a user to easily pinpoint the needed information in a “three-dimensional” way.

Beida Fabao – China Law Journal Database, is a specialized China law journal database updated non-stop and dynamically. So far, all issues of 35 domestic law journals and all tables of content of 6 core law journals have been successfully admitted. The number of authors in this database has reached over 40,000, and the number of full articles over 100,000. The cooperation with more law journals is being negotiated. The reference criterion for admittance is A Guide to the Core Journals of China compiled and published jointly by Peking University Library and Beijing Society For Journal Work of College Library.

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Subscription Options and Price


Subscribers may be single users, multiple users or institutional users. The description of access methods and price as following:

Access methods	Description
Single user	Designed for individuals or entities that need to have only one person accessing the database at any given time with one user ID and password.
Multiple user	Designed for users who wish to have two or more persons concurrently accessing the database at any given time with one user ID and password.
Institutional user	Designed for Institutional users with a large number of users concurrently accessing the database at any given under the same IP address. *The IP range should be provided for setting.
All users have unlimited downloading and printing.

Price:
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Note:
1. The total price of “multiple user” or “institutional user” shall be calculated on the following formula:
Total price ＝ Price of single user times the number of concurrent users
2. As the increase of the database content, features and cost, price may be updated yearly. But we promise the growth in the content of our database shall be more than 20%, and the markup each year shall not exceed 10%.

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Subscription Guide

I.To enjoy the most comprehensive and authoritative information services of China legal system on the Internet, please subscriber first by filling in the registration form.

 Subscriber to the Laws & Regulations Database(English Version)

 Subscriber to the Laws & Regulations Database (Chinese Version)

 Subscriber to the Cases Database (Chinese Version)

 Subscriber to the Law Journals Database (Chinese Version)

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Guidance for Payment

Different methods of payment are available for users within China or outside of China. Please click the below payment methods for detailed information.

   Payment by Wire Transfer
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If you experience any difficulty in the payment process, please feel free to contact us at any time via the following methods:
Tel: +86 (10) 82689699,
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E-mail: database@chinalawinfo.com

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Tel: +86 (10) 82689699,
+86 (10) 82668266 ext. 153 or 160
Mobile: +86 13311570712
Fax: +86 (10) 82668268
E-mail: database@chinalawinfo.com

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