中华人民共和国法律2008（英文版）

UndertheguidanceofthepolicyofpromotingsocialistdemocracyandbuildingasoundsocialistlegalsystemformulatedattheThirdPlenarySessionoftheEleventhCentralCommitteeoftheChineseCommunistParty，theNa-tionalPeople'sCongressanditsStandingCommitteehave，since1979，enactedmanyimportantlaws.Theselawshavebeencompiledandpublishedinsucces-sionbytheLegislativeAffairsCommissionoftheStandingCommitteeoftheNationalPeople'sCongressofthePeople'sRepublicofChina.InordertoacquaintreadersabroadwithChina'slawsandwithwhatChinahasachievedinbuildinganewlegalsystem，thecollectionsinChineseentitledtheLawsofthePeople'sRepublicofChina，coveringtheperiodof1979-2007，havebeentranslatedintoEnglishandpublishedinnineteenvolumesattheForeignLanguagesPress，theSciencePress，andtheLawPressrespective-ly.Wearenowpublishing，asVolume20，theEnglisheditionofTheLawsofthePeople'sRepublicofChina（2008）attheLawPress.ThepublicationnoteintheChineseeditionisnotincluded.