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A Leader in Online Chinese Legal Research

Chinalawinfo Co., Ltd. is a hi-tech legal information company established by the prestigious PekingUniversity on the basis of its LegalInformationCenter. The Legal Information Center of Peking University is founded in 1985 and the first Chinese pioneer to develop Chinese laws in electronic database and a computer-assisted legal research system for Chinese law.

Chinalawinfo strives to provide the most comprehensive and user-friendly databases for Chinese legal information. Chinalawinfo has the following four major databases

DATABASE NAME / CONTENT
Laws & Regulations Database (English Version)
/ Provides authoritative English translations of the most important Chinese legal documents and publishes Chinese legal news in English.
LawsRegulations Database
(Chinese Version)
/ is the most comprehensive and authoritative database of Chinese lawsand regulations promulgated by the Chinese central government and most of local governments since 1949.
Cases Database
(Chinese Version)
/ Contains the 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.
Law Journals Database
(Chinese Version)
/ Jointly launched by PekingUniversityLegalInformationCenter and Beijing Chinalawinfo Co. Ltd., is a specialized database providinglaw journal services for those engaging in the legal practice, study and research.

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Lawinfochina (English Version)

LawInfoChina.com provides authoritative English translations of the most important Chinese legal documents and publishes Chinese legal news in English. This site has the following three major libraries:

All the English translations are accompanied by their original Chinese texts and the English and Chinese texts can be displayed side by side.

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 oftypical 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. Sino-foreign 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. Law Yearbook of China (English version)

The LAW YEARBOOK OF CHINA, is a large, comprehensive and requisite publication for readers at home and abroad to understand and study the basic information about the socialist legal system construction in China. The Yearbook, with abundant information, focuses on legislation and justice in China and reflects the comprehensive situations of China’s socialist legal system construction from such aspects as lawmaking, law enforcement, legal publicity and education, and research on theories of legal science. All materials mentioned in the Yearbook are provided by related central and local government sectors so that the content is complete, accurate and authoritative.

5. Legal News

It contains all the 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 (in title)

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.

8.Gazettes (in title)
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.

9. Journals (Full Text)

This database contains law journals in both English and Chinese, includes contents both informational and academic, and provides users with comprehensive, authoritative and timely Chinese legal information. Currently it includes China Law (bimonthly, in Chinese and English) and Peking University Journal of Legal Studies (2008 edition).

  • Searching Engine

The database is searchable in both English and Chinese by title, full-text keyword, subject, promulgator, promulgation date, effective date and any combination thereof. Lawinfochina supports Boolean Retrieval Concept (and, or, not) in title and full-text search.Searching Steps:

  1. Visit at
  2. Enter your ID and Password. (IP authentication users do not require this step.)
  3. Choose one or two databases.
  4. Search by title or full-text. If you are not sure about which keywords to choose, you can click “Advanced Search” to choose subjects or Promulgators.
  • Update

Our Laws & Regulations database is updated daily, generally in a matter of days from the promulgation of a new legal document. The Center for Legal Information at PekingUniversity has the most comprehensive and efficient nationwide network forcollecting new promulgations and they provide us with an extensive list of the newest legal documents everyday. From this list, we select the laws most relevant to our clientele and have the experts at the Institute for Legal Translation Studies of Peking University translate them. They are then published on our website as soon as the translation is completed.

  • Our International Customers

Our international subscribers include law school and law firm libraries, foreign government agencies, the United Nations, and other research institutions, such as Harvard, Yale, Washington and Tokyo university law libraries, Embassy of U.S.A, Embassy of Australia, etc..

Chinalawinfo (Chinese Version)

In addition to our English-language services, we offer a wide range of Chinese-language services. Our Chinese-language website ChinaLawInfo.comhas three main databases, they are

Beida Fabao-China Legal Information Database (

Beida Fabao-China Cases Database ( and,

Beida Fabao-China law Journal Database (

Beida Fabao-China Legal Information Database (

is the most comprehensive and authoritative database of Chinese legal information, which contains all the laws and regulations, cases as well as other legal information promulgated by the Chinese central government and most of local governments since 1949. In addition, we offer a new sub-database called “Annotated Chinese Laws,” in which more than one hundred Chinese laws are annotated article by article to help readers understand the meanings of these laws.

The most attractive research function of Chinalawinfo is its two-way hypertext links, in which, not only the laws and regulations mentioned in another law or regulation are marked with hypertext links but also use hypertext links to link all the related laws, regulations, cases, and law review articles together.

Beida Fabao-Chinese Cases Database ( civil cases, criminal cases and administrative cases. Cases of various kinds of disputes are included in the database. You'll find our product functionally comprehensive with respect to searching and navigation. It is able to show the panoramic view of the individual cases and includes a long list of functions to help you search the database and make comparisons among criminal cases.Basing on two-way hypertext link function, a case can be linked to all the related laws and regulations. User can find all the underlying jurisprudence, practical knowledge just a few clicks away.

Beida Fabao-China law Journal Database (

China law Journal Databaseis 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 creation of a specialized law journal database. The law journals admitted by this database must be influential core law journals, and all the journals cover from their first issues to the most current issue.At the same time, careful sorting and detailed categorization are made by the content of articles.The articles are search-able by title, subject, author, full-text, keyword and any combination thereof.Such multiple methods for accessing these law journals enable a user to easily pinpoint the needed information in a “three-dimensional” way.

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