Professor Wang Liming, who is a famous civil jurist, the president of China Civil Law Society as well as the vice-president of Renming University has came to our school and gave a lecture named “Characteristics of the Times of the Civil Code” on November 13th, 2016. The lecture was hosted by Professor Zhou Youyong. Professor Liu Bo, Professor Liu Yanhong and other teachers and students all attended the lecture.
Professor Wang Liming firstly briefly introduced the background of compiling the Civil Code and stated the reasons why there was need to compile Civil Code. Then, Professor Wang mainly talked about what kind of Civil Code we are going to compile. He proposed that making Civil Code required to base on Chinese reality, as well as to reflect characteristics and spirits of the times. In the end, Professor Wang Liming concluded that the Civil Code should conform to the reform and the opening-up policy in 21st century.
During the two hours of the lecture, Professor Wang Liming made his points about how to compile a Civil Code and what kind of Civil Code we need from the perspective of legislation, which made the audiences benefit a lot. Finally, the lecture successfully ended with conclusions and comments from Professor Zhou Youyong.