Legal Mechanism for Product Quality Control and Product Liability in People's Republic of China
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description: Since the start of the economic reform of I 979, the economy of China has seen rapid growth leading to a tremendous increase of the supply of kinds and quantity of goods. The increased availability of goods has rapidly raised the Living standard and working conditions of the Chinese people. However, because China's economy, which ~as a planned-economy before the economic reform, was in the early stages of the development of a market economy and thus many requirements for protecting or ensuring the fair competition in the market were not yet or not totally met, the prevalence of fake and inferior products became a serious social problem accompanying the ever-increasing availability of goods on the market. To raise the quality of Chinese goods, to curb the production and sale of fake and inferior-quality goods, to protect consumers and end-users, and to protect the social and economic order, China, beginning from the early l 980's, promulgated a number of laws and regulations concerning product-quality inspection and product liability. During this process, China reformed her system of administrative supervision of product quality, created new criminal responsibilities, and established systems of remedies such as administrative review, administrative litigation, and state compensation to resolve administrative disputes, to supervise the performance of administrative authorities, and to protect legitimate interests of individuals and organizations including product manufacturers and sellers. Also, by adopting experience of foreign countries, China set up a number of new civil-law institutions such as product warranties, product strict liability, punitive damage, mental distress, and the concept and measuring-methods of "product defects". After tremendous effort over twenty years, China has developed a relatively comprehensive legal system governing product quality supervision and product liability. This treatise, through the introduction and the analysis of related legi…
abstract: Since the start of the economic reform of I 979, the economy of China has seen rapid growth leading to a tremendous increase of the supply of kinds and quantity of goods. The increased availability of goods has rapidly raised the Living standard and working conditions of the Chinese people. However, because China's economy, which ~as a planned-economy before the economic reform, was in the early stages of the development of a market economy and thus many requirements for protecting or ensuring the fair competition in the market were not yet or not totally met, the prevalence of fake and inferior products became a serious social problem accompanying the ever-increasing availability of goods on the market. To raise the quality of Chinese goods, to curb the production and sale of fake and inferior-quality goods, to protect consumers and end-users, and to protect the social and economic order, China, beginning from the early l 980's, promulgated a number of laws and regulations concerning product-quality inspection and product liability. During this process, China reformed her system of administrative supervision of product quality, created new criminal responsibilities, and established systems of remedies such as administrative review, administrative litigation, and state compensation to resolve administrative disputes, to supervise the performance of administrative authorities, and to protect legitimate interests of individuals and organizations including product manufacturers and sellers. Also, by adopting experience of foreign countries, China set up a number of new civil-law institutions such as product warranties, product strict liability, punitive damage, mental distress, and the concept and measuring-methods of "product defects". After tremendous effort over twenty years, China has developed a relatively comprehensive legal system governing product quality supervision and product liability. This treatise, through the introduction and the analysis of related legi…
author: Li, Jian Sheng
language: English
keywords: Quality Control, Products liability, China, Consumer Protection Law
date published: 2002-12-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:12:01Z
provider: Washington University in St. Louis
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Washington University in St. Louis