The task of the people’s courts is to try criminal and civil cases and, through judicial activities, to punish all criminals and settle civil disputes, so as to safeguard the system of dictatorship of the proletariat, maintain the socialist legal system and public order, protect socialist property owned by the entire people, collective property owned by working people and the legitimate private property of citizens, the citizens’ right of the person and their democratic and other rights, and ensure the smooth progress of the socialist revolution and socialist construction in the country.

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This Law is enacted with a view to standardizing the price acts, giving play to the role of price in the rational allocation of resources, stabilizing the overall price level of the market, protecting the lawful rights and interests of the consumers and operators and promoting the sound development of the socialist market economy. Government-guided prices mean those prices determined to guide the operators by the competent departments of price of the government or other departments concerned, the baseline prices and their range of fluctuations in accordance with the pricing authority and scope in pursuance of the provisions of this Law.

“Civil rights and interests” used in this Law shall include the right to life, the right to health, the right to name, the right to reputation, the right to honor, right to self image, right of privacy, marital autonomy, guardianship, ownership, usufruct, security interest, copyright, patent right, exclusive right to use a trademark, right to discovery, equities, right of succession, and other personal and property rights and interests.

Laws that are applicable to conservation, utilization, and related management of wetlands such as rivers, lakes, and certain sea areas also include, inter alia, the Water Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Flood Control Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, the Marine Environment Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Yangtze River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Fisheries Law of the People’s Republic of China, and the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Administration of the Use of Sea Areas.

Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as “the Law”) is hereby formulated in accordance with the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China in a bid to further expand opening-up, vigorously promote foreign investment, protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors, standardize the management of foreign investment, impel the formation of a new pattern of all-round opening-up and boost the sound development of the socialist market economy.

Now, the People’s War of Liberation has been basically won, and the majority of the people in the country have been liberated. On this foundation, the first session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference , composed of delegates of all the democratic parties and people’s organization of China, the People’s Liberation Army, the various regions and nationalities of the country, and the overseas Chinese and other patriotic elements, has been convened.

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