The present legal infrastructure in the People’s Republic of China was closely influenced by Soviet Socialist law, which essentially prioritises administrative law at the expense of private law rights. Due to fast industrialisation, at present China is undergoing a strategy of reform, no much less than when it comes to economic, if not social and political, rights. A new contract code in 1999 represented a transfer away from administrative domination. Furthermore, after negotiations lasting fifteen years, in 2001 China joined the World Trade Organization. King Hammurabi is revealed the code of laws by the Mesopotamian solar god Shamash, also revered…