International Law and Domestic Legislation in the Past Seventy Years
摘要
This chapter examines how China respects international law through constitutional endorsement, treaty-making mechanisms, and alignment of national laws with global norms. During economic reforms, compliance with WTO rules catalyzed the largest legal overhaul in PRC history. Beyond trade, Chinese legislators increasingly reference multilateral treaties and soft-law instruments to craft precise, transparent, and human-centered legislation in fields ranging from aviation to climate change. It identifies three emerging trends: converging legal values, synchronized domestic-international legislative agendas, and China’s growing capacity to export legal concepts. It concludes by recommending refining statutory precision, expanding foreign-related legislation, improving inter-agency coordination, and cultivating transnational legal expertise, eventually contributing to building a “community with a shared future for mankind”.