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General rules of civil procedure involving foreign party in China
This article reviews general rules and principles of civil procedure involving foreign party in China. The author undertakes the analysis of the main sources of procedural legislation, connected with economic disputes – Civil procedure code in the People’s Republic of China and Arbitration procedure code of Russian Federation. Civil procedure code of the PRC contains Section 4 that is devoted to special things about civil procedure involving foreign party. All-in-all the statutory regulation of civil proceeding of China and of arbitration proceeding of Rusia in this sphere is almost the same. An essential sources of law in this sphere are international documents that are New York Convention on The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (10 June, 1958), Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters (18 March 1970), The Beijing agreement On legal assistance in civil and criminal cases (19 June, 1992).