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  • 2025-07-01
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“Implementation Plan for Further Improving the Credit Repair System” has been implemented from June 22, 2025 

Chinese government has adjusted its supervision of market entities from ex-ante regulation to ex-post regulation for more than a decade. During this process, the credit information publicized by enterprises has become a key indicator. Once publicized for non-compliant behaviors, enterprises’ transactions, financing, and other activities may be affected. For this reason, the government has also taken many measures to allow enterprises with non-serious or eliminated illegal and dishonest behaviors to rebuild their credit under certain conditions. On September 1, 2021, the SAMR issued the “Administrative Measures for Credit Repair in Market Supervision”, which stipulated the applicable scenarios, application processes, and…

  • 2025-07-01
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Contract fraud or Crime of contract fraud?

In a loan contract, if the borrower stats his real estate and a car to prove that he has solvency, but in fact he has neither. The lender could not recover the debt by civil litigation. Can the lender claim for the criminal liability for the crime of contract fraud? The answer to this question is the difference between contract fraud and the crime of contract fraud. The mainstream view holds that whether the party has the purpose of illegal possession is the key to distinguishing between contract fraud and the crime of contract fraud. In practice, to determine this…

  • 2025-07-01
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If an employee got injured during a business trip abroad, whether such injury could be considered as a work-related injury?

Mr. Ho was dispatched by the company to work in Africa, where he accidentally fell from an operating platform and suffered a fracture. After receiving treatment at a local hospital in Africa for 22 days, Ho returned to China and was transferred to a local hospital for continued treatment. After discharge, Ho applied for the determination of the work-related injury. The company had purchased work-related injury insurance for Ho in Africa, so it suspended Ho’s domestic social security. If the local social security bureau determined Ho’s injury as a work-related injury, the company would have to pay additional work-related injury…

  • 2025-06-03
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The “Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Intellectual Property Infringement” has been effective since April 26, 2025

Regarding the application of law in criminal cases of IP infringement, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (hereinafter referred to as the “Two Heads”) previously issued three judicial interpretations in 2004, 2007, and 2020. With the emergence of new, complex, and high-tech criminal acts involving IP infringement, the “Criminal Law Amendment (XI)” in 2021 significantly revised the provisions on crimes related to IP infringement. Against this backdrop, on January 19, 2023, the Two Heads released the “Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Intellectual Property Infringement (Draft for Comment)” for…

  • 2025-06-03
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Cautions related to guarantees provided by third parties

Guarantee is one of the important means to ensure the recovery of creditor’s rights. When a third party provides a guarantee for a debtor, the creditor shall carefully assess whether the guarantee is valid and enforceable. So, as a creditor, what are cautions related to guarantees provided by third parties? Firstly, from the perspective of the guarantee subject, when a third party provides a surety guarantee, it is necessary to confirm its capacity to provide the guarantee. This issue involves two aspects:(1) Is the subject prohibited from acting as a guarantor? and (2) Are there any legal preconditions for this…

  • 2025-06-03
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Keep the mixed employment by affiliated enterprises in the right track

In practice, many affiliated enterprises engage in mixed employment. Typical scenarios of mixed employment include two situations: 1. Workers provide labor for two or more affiliated enterprises simultaneously. For example, A serves as the legal counsel for a group company and, due to the lack of legal staff in a subsidiary, A also undertakes legal work for the subsidiary. 2. Workers provide labor alternately for two or more affiliated enterprises. For example, A, an engineer, was assigned to work on a project for a Beijing-based affiliate, and after completing the project, is reassigned to a Guangzhou-based affiliate for another project.…

  • 2025-05-07
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The “Measures for the Implementation of Work Safety Liability Insurance” has been implemented since March 29, 2025.

In 2017, the former State Administration of Work Safety, the former China Insurance Regulatory Commission, and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the “Measures for the Implementation of Work Safety Liability Insurance” (An Jian Zong Ban [2017] No.140), establishing the work safety liability insurance system (hereinafter referred to as the “System”). The “Work Safety Law” revised in 2021 put forward new requirements for the System, clearly stating that “production and business operation entities in high-risk industries and fields specified by the state shall purchase work safety liability insurance.” Regarding those new reauiremtns, the Ministry of Emergency Management, jointly with six…

  • 2025-05-07
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Whether an enterprise standard shall be filed?

In a product quality dispute case, the contract involved in the case stipulated that the quality standard of the subject matter should adopt the enterprise standard of the seller. However, the seller did not provide its enterprise standard or the corresponding instruction manual to the buyer. Moreover, the nameplate of the equipment did not match the actual equipment, so the quality standard indicated on the nameplate could not be used as the evaluation standard for the quality of the equipment either. In the end, the court held that the seller could not prove that the equipment complied with the enterprise…

  • 2025-05-07
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Whether an employer is entitled to forbid employees from getting a tattoo?

A factory owner in Dongguan refused to hire a person with a tattoo, because she believed that a person with a tattoo might affect the overall atmosphere of the factory, as having a tattoo gives people the first impression that such person is either involved in underworld activities or disobedient. The factory owner’s words sparked a heated debate. Some people believe that the company has the right to decide its hiring standards based on its own judgment criteria, while others believe that tattoos, hairstyles, clothing, etc. fall within the scope of personal image management, and the company has no right…

  • 2025-04-01
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The “Announcement of the General Administration of Customs on Amending the Criteria for the Discretion of Customs Administrative Penalties (II)” has been implemented since March 1, 2025.

The “Frontier Health and Quarantine Law” was amended on June 28, 2024, and came into force on January 1, 2025. This law has made important amendments to the supervision items of frontier health and quarantine, illegal acts, and legal liabilities. Consequently, the General Administration of Customs organized the amendment of the “Criteria for the Discretion of Customs Administrative Penalties (II)” (Announcement No. 187 of the General Administration of Customs in 2023), and formulated the “Announcement of the General Administration of Customs on Amending the Criteria for the Discretion of Customs Administrative Penalties (II)” (Announcement No. 21 of the General Administration…