nine articles in this chapter. Although the rules are quite few and they concern only
the principles, their existence shows that the legislators began to pay more attention
to conflict of laws. Then in 1988, the Supreme People’s Court published ‘Opinions
on several questions about the application of General Principles of Civil Law
(test)’, in which there are 17 articles interpreting the rules of Chapter 8 of General
Principles of Civil Law in relation to the law applicable to foreign-related civil
relation.
Then in the following years, the Adoption Law (entered into force on 1 April
1992), the Maritime Code (entered into force on 1 July 1993), the Negotiable
Instruments Law (entered into force on 1 January 1996), the Civil Aviation Law
(entered into force on 1 March 1996) and the Contract Law (entered into force on
1 October 1999) have successively provided special rules on foreign-related civil
and commercial relations in their respective fields. Foreign-related legislation of
civil and commercial laws has entered a prosperous period.