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China operates a civil law system led by the Chinese Communist Party. Its roots reach back to the Qing dynasty's Great Qing Code and other historical Chinese legal traditions, but the modern system reflects continental European civil law, particularly the German civil law tradition as it took hold in China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hong Kong and Macau, the country's two special administrative regions, must observe the national constitution and the power of the National People's Congress, but largely keep the separate legal systems they inherited from the colonial era.

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Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Civil Law Family), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.

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China antitrust statute, within the civil law system of the Peoples Republic of China.

Source Major Legal Systems in the World TodayRene David and John E.C. Brierley
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Major Legal Systems in the World Today
Rene David and John E.C. Brierley, Stevens and Sons, 1985Includes: Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China
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