What are the characteristics of civil law systems that are of interest to China?

1. Civil law systems are based on statute law, and usually do not recognize the status of case law (but there are exceptions, such as the French administrative law, which recognizes case law);

2. They have a long tradition of codification;

3. In legal theory, they advocate rationalism, and tend to construct a system of concepts that emphasizes logic and abstraction;

4. In the judicial trial, judges are traditionally required to try cases strictly in accordance with the law, with trinitarianism as the most important mode of reasoning. Judges are required to judge in strict accordance with the provisions of the law, with trinitarianism as the most important mode of reasoning.

However, it is impossible for a code to be all-embracing and complete, and from this point of view it is not as flexible as the common law in improving and developing the law. Historically, the civil law system has gone through a process from case law to code law. This foretells the future of the world's two major legal systems convergence and integration.