[rayiner]

China is many things, but one of those is practical. They're planning for a future in which they're not just a low-cost manufacuring hub (much of that is indeed already leaving China for places like Vietnam). To that end, they're making a very concerted effort to modernize their legal system, importing many ideas from the U.S. (e.g. they have American legal academics helping reform areas like the law of evidence) and introducing twists of their own (e.g. lightweight arbitration for small civil disputes).