From 21 to 22 September 2019, the Sino-European Conference on the Chinese Civil Code on the topic “Draft of the Books of Tort Law and Personal Rights” took place at the Law Faculty of Renmin University of China in Peking. This Conference was organized by the Chinese Civil Law Society of the Chinese Legal Association, the Law Faculty of Renmin […]

From 2 to 11 July 2019, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme brought a six-person delegation of the Budget Affairs Commission (BAC) of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, headed by the Deputy Chairman, ZHU Mingchun, on a fact-finding trip to Speyer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Prague and Vienna. The aim of the trip was an exchange of ideas on issues […]

From May 10 to 17, 2019, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme of GIZ organized and accompanied a fact-finding trip to Germany and Finland on the topic of regulatory offences for six civil servants of the administrative law department of the Legislative Affairs Commission (LAC) of the National People’s Congress. Led by ZHANG Guilong, Deputy Director of the department of administrative […]

The Sino-german Legal Cooperation Programme of GIZ organized a one-day workshop on the German Renewable Energies Law (EEG 2017) on September 26th, 2018. The workshop took place at the National People’s Congress in Beijing, where the Congress’ Environment Protection and Ressources Conservation Committee (ERC) is preparing for a reform of the Chinese Renewable Energies Act. Ten legal experts of ERC attended […]

From the 20th to 29th of June 2018, a delegation of the Criminal Law department of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People´s Congress visited Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands to learn about international legal cooperation in criminal matters in these three countries. Mr. Wang Aili, Director-General of the Criminal Law Department of the Legislative […]

On 11 December 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme and the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People’s Congress held a workshop on the Circular Economy Law of the People’s Republic. The Chinese participants included Mr LU Hao, Chair of the Environment Committee, Mr WANG Qingxi, Vice-Chair, Mr PU Changcheng, Committee member, and Mr ZHAI Yong, Head […]

From 8 to 17 October 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme organised a fact-finding tour for a delegation from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China on the subjects of the constitutional review of legal norms and civil service law. The delegation visited Berlin, Nuremberg and Paris. It comprised twelve officials from […]

From 19 to 26 September 2017, GIZ ran the annual budget management training course for a delegation from the Budgetary Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. This year’s topics were financial relations between the Federation and Länder (individual states), output-based budgeting and property taxation. The course was held in the state of Hesse, Bonn, Hamburg […]

From 7 to 13 June 2017, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme conducted a fact-finding tour for a delegation from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China on the subject of employment law. The delegation visited Hamburg, Berlin, Bern and Zurich. It was led by Mr Zhang Yong, Vice-Chairperson of the Legislative Affairs […]

On April 18th and 19th 2016, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation programme together with the Civil law Department of the Legislative Affairs Commission (LAC) of the National People’s Congress hosted a symposium on civil law codification in Beijing. The German experts participating in the event were Prof. Dr. Peter Windel from the Ruhr-University in Bochum and Attorney-at-Law Dr. Justus Schmidt-Otto from […]