1st Edition

China's Development Law Theory and Practice

By Zhang Shouwen Copyright 2026
386 Pages
by Routledge

386 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a captivating framework for comprehending how legal frameworks can successfully encourage and protect development in our rapidly changing global environment. The book centers its argument around the concept of the “development-oriented rule of law,” examining how this framework addresses the complex challenges arising from marketization, informatization, and globalization. The... Read more

1. Introduction  Part I Fundamental Theories of Development Law  2. Development Law and Development Concepts  3. Basic Framework of Development Theory  4. The Legal Function of Promoting Development  Part II Development Rights and Development Burdens  5. Allocation of the Right to Development and the Right to Economic Development  6. Legal Regulation on Local Governments’ Borrowing Powers  7. The Development Pathway of Burden Alleviation and Transformation  8. Legal Adjustments to the Burden on Market Entities  Part III The Development-Oriented Approach to the Rule of Law  9. The Rule of Law and Development: Challenges and Direction  10. Critical Issues in the Development of the Rule-of-Law Economy  11. The “Development-Oriented” Approach to the Economic Rule of Law  Part IV Rule-of-Law Protections for a Modern Economic System  12. Development Law Analysis of a Modern Economic System  13. Building a Development-Promoting Modern Economic Framework  14. Modern Market System and Fair Competition Review  Part V Government and Market: A Rule-of-Law-Oriented Approach to Development  15. Allocation and Exercise of Pricing Power by Market Entities  16. “Development-Oriented” Tax Legislation  17. Public-Private Partnerships and Government Transformation through Burden Reduction  Part VI Legal Responses to the Development of Globalization and Informatization  18. Trade Wars, National Competitiveness, and Legal Responses  19. Legal Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Industry Development  20. Legal Regulation of the Sharing Economy in Income and Resources  21. Conclusion

Biography

Zhang Shouwen is Professor and a doctoral supervisor at Law School, Peking University, China. His research interests include economic law theory, fiscal and tax law, information law, competition law, social law, and international economic law. His publications with Routledge also include Distributive Institutions: The View of Economic Law and The Crisis of Distribution: Theoretical Analysis from Economic Law.