Mao Dequan

                                                                                                     Law School

Abstract: From September in 1986, China's first Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution Nanjing University – Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies has been established, and foreign cooperation in running schools in China has gone through since the early exploration period, after a period of rapid rise has come today .The mature period of development, China's foreign cooperation in running schools in this period showing a thriving gratifying situation, the increasing number and scope of cooperative projects to diversify and so on. December 11, 2001, China formally joined the WTO and Trade in Education Services has made specific commitments, which marks the legal norms of foreign cooperation in running schools began to integrate into the world legal system.

Although China has in the January 26, 1995 and March 1, 2003 promulgated the "Provisional Regulations on Chinese-foreign Cooperative School and Chinese-foreign cooperative schools and in June 2, 2004 issued Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools Implementation Measures. Chinese—foreign cooperative school, the Joint Education marks the formal promulgation of the rule of law and standardized onto the track. But overall, China's trade in education services legal system is not perfect. So far, China is still not a book about the general education services, the legal system, which led to the field of trade in education services, the situation appears no laws.

Meanwhile, the existing Chinese-foreign cooperative education on the provisions of the field of education mainly for the functional departments of the regulations and internal documents, not only the lower level of legislation, legislative technique rough, and there are contradictory norms, the lack of systematic coordination, domestic law and International conflict, which has greatly influenced the educational services in China trade legislation applicability, consistency and transparency. Therefore, how to WTO/GATS framework, combined with the international rule of law, improving Chinese—foreign cooperative school of relevant legislation and the promotion of rapid development of trade in education services has great significance in theory and practice.

Read the article here:         中外合作办学法律问题研究_毛德权.pdf