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STUDY AND IMPACT OF HONG KONG LAW IN CHINA
22 December 1993
Political Adviser Mr Ken Walker,
PA's office Mr Goodstadt, CPU Mr Edwards, LO (IL) Mr Cox, Peking Mr Garrett, HKD Dr Bristow-Smith,
FED Mr Wye, RAD
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1. Over lunch on 21 December Luo Jiahuan, number two in the Chinese JLG office, told me something of the conference which he had attended in Peking on his way back from JLG XXVIII in London.
2. The conference was one of an annual series organised I think by the HKMAO, bringing together academics from some 60 universities around China, all of whom were studying aspects of Hong Kong law. Papers were read and discussions were held. Luo said that the Chinese side was taking the study of Hong Kong's law very seriously. He admitted in answer to my question that the greatest interest was in Hong Kong's commercial and economic laws, but this was by no means exclusive. There was a great deal of interest in adapting the substance of much of Hong Kong's law for Chinese use. Indeed, he said that in Shenzhen the local authority had the right to make legislation, and that they were in the process of introducing a considerable number of Hong Kong laws onto their own statute book. The same was happening (on a lesser scale) in Guangdong Province as a whole. It did not apply in Zhuhai or in other SEZs because only Shenzhen had the necessary legislative authority to make laws.
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Luo said that regrettably the study of Hong Kong law had now been overtaken on the mainland by the study of Taiwan law. This was a function of language. Although more universities had begun by studying Hong Kong law, because most of it was in English this restricted the numbers of people capable of studying it. Hence the fact that Taiwan law was now more widely studied.
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