Introduction

Since adopting the policies of reforming and opening up in 1978, with the development of international economic exchanges and transactions, China has been witnessing fast expansion of foreign-related commercial arbitration . During this course, China enacted its first formal Civil Procedure Law in 1991 and its first Arbitration Law in 1994, unifying the provisions on commercial arbitration previously scattered in various legislative documents. With the enactment of the Civil Procedure Law and the Arbitration Law, China has set up the framework of the legal system on commercial ...