【正文】 isions. It is said to provide ―unparalleled insight into how contract law was understood …‖11 The rule of law in China In China, the rule of law has gone through different periods. 7 Jean Giono, ―The Man Who Planted Trees‖, twentieth anniversary edition, Chelsea Green Publishing Company: White River Junction, Vermont (2021). 8 In keeping with the principle of confidentiality that is a basic feature of mercial arbitration, all of the awards that CIETAC has published have been redacted to avoid identification of parties, etc. 9 Id. at 1350 and 1351. 10 Reported in Bernadette Meyler, ―Towards A Common Law Originalism‖, 59 Stan. L. Rev. (2021) 551, 588. 11 Valerie Hansen, ―Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts 600 – 1400‖, Yale University Press (1995) 9596. CELEBRATING AND RESEARCHING THE CISG PROGRESS IN THE RULE OF LAW IN THE PRC 7 ―In 618 … the first Tang emperor established a dynasty that was to rule China for the next three centuries. The Tang was a time of extensive contact with the foreign peoples who traveled along the Silk Road from India and Central Asia. … One of the lasting acplishments … was The Tang Code, promulgated in 653 … [It contains] a clear statement of how things should be according to Confucian principles.‖12 The Tang Code had a long lasting influence on the rule of law in China, and it was emulated by trading partners of Subsequently, ―Portuguese merchants and Spanish missionaries … noted in the latter half of the sixteenth century that the Chinese judges were much better and fairer than their European counterparts. Over time, the depiction evolved so that by the mideighteenth century, Chinese justice was understood as a product of the Son of Heaven guided by Confucian morals.‖14 However, analysts have regarded the MarxistLeninist era after the proclamation of the People‘s Republic of China as ―less conducive to the establishment of a modern form of rule of law.‖15 A period of reform was initiated in the late 1970s. It has The reform is a work in One still encounters expressions of the need for further implementation of the rule of law in China and more transparency. However, there can be no dispute that in the field of law that we address in today‘s seminar, there has been dramatic progress in the PRC in both the rule of law and transparency of awards. And we predict much further progress thanks to ongoing sharing of awards with the world trade munity by CIETAC and a Wuhan Law School innovation: A CISGChina Inter database that will make an abundance of case law and mentary on uniform international sales law in the PRC and globally freely and readily available to all Chinese traders and persons who trade with China. The Wuhan database material is available in Chinese and in English. It will be a great boon to all who research the CISG. The free availability on this site of the plete text of a new 2021 Chinese edition of an 825page case law annotated treatise on the CISG by Chengwei Liu will be an added dividend. I have a vision An honored American has said, ―I have a vision‖. I also have a vision. The People‘s Republic of China has demonstrated that it is well on the road to world leadership in volume of case law on uniform international sales law. I have a vision of a PRC whose case law is also cited by scholars of all countries as a model for all arbitrators and judges to emulate. Is this realistic? Absolutely! – particularly considering the rapidity and extent to which China has 12 Id. at 17. 13 Limin Wong, ―The Tang Code and the Early Social Development of the Tang Dynasty‖, US China Law Review (July 2021) Volume 2, No. 7 (Serial No. 8). 14 Jonas Grimhalden, ―The Reform Path of the Chinese Judiciary: Progress or StandStill?, 30 Fordham International Law Journal (2021) 10031004 (citations omitted). 15 Id. at 1006. 16 Id. See also Zhao Xiuwen amp。 Lisa Kloppenberg, supra n. 6 at 421422 (―The role of law … has … expanded significantly since the end of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s. … Many legal norms have been codified and publicized … The establishment of arbitration law and development of a more robust legal system supporting domestic and international arbitration in China is an important aspect of these changes in the legal and economic systems.‖) 17 Support for such progress es from many quarters. See for example, the statement by Alan Greenspan that ―short of a few ambiguous incidents, I can think of no circumstances where the expanded rule of law and enhanced property rights failed to increase material prosperity‖, in his newest text, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, Penguin Press, New York (2021) 16. 1980 年《聯(lián)合國(guó)國(guó)際貨物銷售合同公約》（ CISG）在成員國(guó)的適用與解釋 國(guó)際研討會(huì)論文集 8 absorbed the concept of uniform international sales law under the United Nations Uniform International Sales China is already a world leader in this respect. My expanded vision can bee a reality thanks to: The presence in China of persons of the caliber of Professor Tang, the support provided by anizations such as CIETAC and the Wuhan University School of Law, and the fact that: We are at the dawning of The Information Age: every attorney and arbitrator and jurist of China has access to a puter。 And there is an abundance of helpful uniform law information freely and readily available to all on the Inter. China has an ancient tradition of respect for precedent. The precedents that are freely and readily available on the Inter: Can help all counsel improve the caliber of their service to clients。 Can help all arbitrators and judges stand on the shoulders of giants of China and of other countries By considering mentaries and awards of others in their re