⿻Civil Procedure Law 

How Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents Will Affect Documents Required in Foreign Related Lawsuits 

By Wang Haichuan

The Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (“Hague Convention”) was taken into action on 7 November 2023. Chinese embassies made announcements of stopping certification services. In this article, I would like to discuss based on existing Chinese laws change of documents that foreigners or foreign businesses need to provide in lawsuits filed in China...........................More

⿻Artificial Intelligence 

How Difficult It Is for Heygen AI Services that Make Guo Degang Tell English Jokes to Land in China 

By You Yunting

A lot of videos of celebrities speaking foreign languages appeared on the internet the other day, including videos of Guo Degang and Zhao Benshan, two famous Chinese comedians telling jokes in English and Taylor Swift and Donald Trump, two American celebrities speaking Chinese. Actually, these videos were made by using AI services of Heygen, a business founded by two Chinese people who graduated from Tongji University. However, when I visited Heygen’s website, I found internet users could not open the website in China or pay the service fee via WeChat or Alipay. I would like to discuss formalities that Heygen needs to go through in order to have its AI services land in China......................More

⿻ New Laws, Rules and Regulations 

1. Capital Management Rules for Commercial Banks (Revised)/CBIRC 

2. Temporary Regulations of Benchmarks for Administrative Discretion in 

Emergency Management/MEM 

3. Inspection and Supervision Rules for Clinical Trials of Drugs/NMPA 

4. Instructions on Innovation and Development of Humanoid Robots /MIIT 

5. Guide to Summoning People Preventing or Restricting Competition by 

Abusing Administrative Power for Law Enforcement Meetings/SAMR

6. Regulations of Securities Law Related Activities of Law Firms/CSRC