The Gavel

With Nanjing to officially implement mandatory classification of domestic rubbish beginning on 1 November, it is worth looking back to the experience gleaned by Shanghai in its attempts to do the same in 2019, when the reality of the...

During the hot summer season in China, outdoor workers are exposed to significant risks in regard to health and safety, which raises general public concern, as well as further considerations, as unfortunately, heat strokes or even accidental death are...

One of China’s major priorities is technology innovation, as PRC becomes a world leader in quantum research, challenging the USA in the race to develop quantum computers, as well as creating its own successful space program. Research and development (R&D)...

Increasingly, luxury brands choose to sell their products through WeChat mini programs, which makes it easier to provide controllable online shopping services, so can they avoid the difficulties associated with finding and loading official websites.  Since 2016, luxury brands such...

On occasion of the upcoming Annual Session of the National People’s Congress, a complete Draft of the first Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China is expected to be finally submitted for deliberation, concluding an ambitious project that...

Back when China was in the midst of the serious and deadly SARS virus, the country promulgated the “Regulation on Responses to Public Health Emergencies”, on 9 May, 2003. The Regulation provides us with some form of experience in...

As one of the world’s most influential fashion companies, Louis Vuitton has a number of world-famous trademarks specialising in the manufacture and sale of leather goods, clothing, jewelry and many more. For more than 150 years, the firm has...

Most people associate character with moral qualities but the definition also includes non-moral characteristics, behavioural tendencies and patterns of life, things with nothing to do with morality; being mindful of others, shyness or a fondness for cats, etc. Is...