Comments on: Draft PRC Property Law Available for Comment

By: Texas Lawyers

Texas Lawyers — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:56:08 +0000

It is pretty interesting. I’m not too familiar with Chinese property rights, but I was always thinking that people pretty much don’t own anything personally since it is a communism system of government.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:15:19 +0000

I’ll have to read it through before answering about differences, but I suspect this will be substantially convergent with non-PRC legal notions.

I, too, am curious about the choice of terms. “Wu” seems to strongly connote physical materiality, but the term wouldn’t be neccessitated by IP laws—they could have used “chan” and made a distinction in the definitions between real estate (bu dong cai chan) and IP (zhi shi cai chan).

By: H H

H H — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:53:40 +0000

This law has been many years in the making. Good to see it finally came out. In your judgement, are there any major differences between this law and “western” property laws?

It’s also interesting to see that in Chinese this law is not called “Chan Quan Fa”, as “property law” is, but “Wu Quan Fa”. Is there any significance with this distinction? Or is it simply because China already had laws on intellectual property? Thanks.