1 Under the chairmanship of Ambassador Pierre-Louis Girard ofSwitzerland, the Working Party (established in March and met for the first time in Geneva in October 1987) concluded almost 15 years of negotiations with China on 17 September 2001. 2 On 10 November 2001, the agreement with about 900 pages was adopted formally by the 142 members of the WTO at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar. On 11 November 2001, Shi Guangsheng, as Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, signed the Protocol on China's Accession to WTO and presented to Jiang Zemin ratifying China's entry into WTO. See China Signs W ro Accession Protocol, People's Daily, November 12, 2001, available at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200111/12/eng2001111284365.shtml, last visit on November 12, 2007.

3 See the Preamble of GATS. 4 Within WTO regime, there is no uniform definition for RTAS. The broad consensus on this issue is that, RTAS is the inter-regional trade liberalization or facilitation arrangements promoted by governments, in the form of free trade area or trade union. In practice, there are various kinds of arrangements for RTAS, from the simple tariff preference to the comprehensive economic integration. 5 See J. A. Crawford and R. V. Fiorentino, The Changing Landscape of Regional Trade Agreement, WTO Discussion Paper, No.8, 2005, available at www.wto.org/english/res e/booksp e/discussion-papers8 e.pdf last visit on August 6, 2008. 6 ZENG Lingliang and CHEN Weidong, Impacts of Regional Integration on Multilateral Trading System: Taking EC as an Example, Journal of Wuhan University (edition of Human and Social Science), No.3, 2000, pp. 337-338. (in Chinese)

Heinz G. Preusse, Regional Integration in the Nineties: Stimulation or Threat to the Multilateral Trading System?, 28 (4) Joumal of World Trade, 1994, p. 149. 8 YU Dingyong and Guo Hongliang, Law System of Modern Logistics, Guangzhou, Jinan University Press, 2003, p. 1 (in Chinese). 9 James. C, Johnson et al. Contemporary Logistics, 7th edition 7, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998, p. 1. � General point in Chinese scholars is that, division standard of section of law science is mainly adjusting object and adjusting means of law. See SHEN Zhongling ed., jurisprudence, Beijing, Higher Education Press, 1994, pp. 326-327 (in Chinese).

1� See ZHANG Yu ed., Code of Logistics, Beijing University of International Business and Economics Press, 2004 (in Chinese). �2 Merrc: Qi, General Introduction of Logistics Law, Shanghai, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press, 2004, pp. 10-11 (in Chinese). �3 YU Dingyong and Guo Honghang, Law System of Modem Logistics, Guangzhou, Jinan University Press, 2003, p. 2 (in Chinese). 14 XU Junke, Law and Practice of International Service Trade, Press of People' Courts, Beijing, 2000, p. 4 (in Chinese).

15 Including issues of education, medicine, culture and arts.

16 "International complementary service" means that an especial kind of trade in services supported to production and export of commodity, See ZENG Lingliang, Low of World Trade Organization, Wuhan, Wuhan University Press, 1997, p.384 (in Chinese).

17 See Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Annex 1B: GATS. 18 See Protocol on China's Accession to WTO.

19 ZHAO Qiang and Guo Wei, The Legal Framework of Opening Logistics Market after China's Accession to WTO, available at http://www.yishilf.com/china/public/lunwenlchina.htm, last visited on May 1, 2008. =° ZENG Lingliang and CHEN Weidong, Impacts of Regional Integration on Multilateral Trading System: Taking EC as an Example, Journal oJWuhan University (edition of Human and Social Science), No.3, 2000, p.342 (in Chinese).

21 The extent of foreign trade dependence refers to ratio of the total foreign trade of a country (total import and export volume) and the Gnv, used to measure the extent of country's economic dependence on the international market. United States and Japan have separately a high extent of foreign trade dependence beyond 20%. Of course, over-high foreign trade dependence can undermine entire economy of one country. zz Of course, in view of many older scholars, this is not necessarily correct perspective, the discussion about the question, see related articles in CHEN An ed., Journal ofinternatiotial Economic Law, Beijing, Peking University Press, 2001, Vol.4 (in Chinese). z3 That means function of grading guide of the Constitution.

z4 John H. Jackson, jurisprudence of GAIT and the WTO, 2nd edition, Beijing, Higher Education Press, p.6. 25 Ibid,p.453. 26 Wang Yanzhi, The International Economic Law in Constitutional Horizons, as the second preamble of the book, written by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, translated by HE Zhipeng, SUN Lu and WANG Yanzhi, Constitutional Functions and Constitutional Problems of International Economics Law, Higher Education Press, 2005, pp.l2-16 (in Chinese). 27 See the preamble of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Orqanization. ze About the issue, please see Bin CHEN and Min SHAO, On the Issue of "Articles Involving Environment Protection" of the Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China of 2004, in the proceeding of LF PRFMIER tt COLLOQUE FRANCO- CHiNois EN Upon Doh L'Emvutotvt�EntsmT, held at September 28-29, 2006, Wuhan, China.

z" See Tno Kaiyuan, The Multilateralization of Laws on International Trade in Services and China's Legal Regulation on Foreign Trade in Sewices, Beijing, Law Press China, 2000, p. 185 (in Chinese). 3° The Talking of Associate Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of P2c on Negotiation of FTA between China and ASEAN, China Daily, April 26, 2002 (in Chinese). t Alyssa Greenwald, The AsEAt�-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA): A Legal Response to China's Economic Rise?, 16 Diikejoumal of Comparative ['1 International Law 193, 2004, pp.193-194. 32 China National Bureau of Statistics, China Remains Largest Developing Country, issued on 20 December 2005, available at http://english.gov.cn/2005-12/20/content_132456.htm, last visit on August 3, 2008. " Trade Policy Review: People's Republic of China, Report of W'ro Secretariat, The Fourth Trade of India, WTO Trade Policy Review Body, WTO documents WT/TpR/S/161, 28 February 2006, p.4.

3a See China Trade in Services Report 2007, by Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China. You also can get related information by http://tradeinservices.mofcom.gov.cn/c/2008-03-06/25824.shtml, last visit on August 1, 2008. 3s Trade Policy Review: People's Republic of China, Report of W ro Secretariat, The Fourth Trade of India, WTO Trade Policy Review Body, WTO documents WT/TPK./S/161, 28 February 2006, p.24. 11 In the World's total service exports, in 2006, China just comprised 3.4%. See China Trade in Services Report 2007, by Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China.

37 Art. 3 of GATS.

3$ Pierre Sauvc, Been There, Not (quite [Yet\ Done 17¡at: Lessone and Challenges in Service Trade, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, NcCR Trade working paper, No. 2006/18, revised 26 October 2006, Section 5.6, available at http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEGYPT/Resources/session_9_Sauve.pdf, last visit on August 4, 2008. 3y See Zuo Haicong, International Trade Law, Chapter 14: GATT 1994, Beijing, Law Press, 2004 (in Chinese). 4° See HE Xiaoyong, Realizing Complete Consistency to WTO Rules: Analysis to Foreign Trade Law of Prc 2004, Wro Fomm, No.6, 2004 (in Chinese).

41 The point can be found in Felix WH Chan, Jimmy JM NG and Bobby KY Wong, Shipping and Logistics Iaw: Principles and Practice in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2002. az The Civil Aircraft Agreement just belongs to the plurilateral agreements.