World Consumer Rights Day

World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated annually by consumer organizations worldwide.It commemorates the historic declaration on March 15,1962 by John F.Kennedy,the former U.S.President,of the basic Rights of consumers,which include right to safety and right to be informed.This declaration has led to

Initial Analysis on the Legal Protection of Consumers＇ Rights and Interests in Network Transaction

With the development of network technology and information technology, electronic commerce as a new business model wiht itsnew trading ideas-＋, In changing the traditional business structure,but also gradually changing people’s shopping patterns and consumptionpatterns,Online shopping has become the preferred way of shopping.Changes in consumption patterns will inevitably lead to new problems inthe process of consumption,and the development speed of the problem in sync with the development speed of network economy,as far as therenewal speed of laws and regulations is concerned,this asymmetric development is bound to bring great inconvenience to the consumer rights innetwork transactions.In this paper, from the angle of legal protection,the protection of consumer rights and interests in network transactions areexpounded,analysis of the current situation and reasons of the consumers’ rights and interests are infringed upon in the network transaction,learnfrom the experience of foreign consumer rights and interests protection,In order to put forward effective suggestions on the system constructionof the protection of consumer rights and interests.

Activities for 3. 15 - International Consumer Right Day Held in Beijing

On March 15th, 2005, the spot activity for the consultation and propaganda of 3. 15 International Consumer Right Day, jointly hosted by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ), the People’s Government of Beijing, the Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision of Beijing and the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Beijing was held at Wang Fujing, Beijing.

A Research on the Legal Designation and Conception of Consumer Cooling-off Period System

Along with the rapid development of modem China economy, some new business modes and sale areas continuously emerge in markets. For example with the continuous popularity of consumer online shopping, rapid development of TV shopping industry, compared with traditional store sales, in these special sale areas consumers＇ rights and interests are more likely to get harmed. From March 15, 2014, the newly revised ＂China consumer protection law＂ will formally implement cooling-off period legal system in special sale areas.2 Because it is a new system different from ＂obligatory compact principle＂ in traditional civil law, the scholars＇ theoretical research on cooling-off period system is still not mature enough. This paper discusses cooling-off period system from the theoretical level, puts forward the designation problem of cooling-off period system, discusses complete concepts of cooling-off period system, and puts forward its legal characteristics as a new consumer rights.

Study on the Current Consumption Environment and Its Improvement Strategies in China

This paper analyses the current consumption environment in China, gives a full picture of the protection of Chinese consumers＇ rights and interests, especially describes some problems that damage consumers＇ legitimate rights and interests. This paper also puts forward some practical meanings of improvement of the consumption environment in order to make it more and more trustworthy in China, and then seek to provide some useful suggestions and approaches constructively from different parts to this campaign.

Punitive Damages in China:Evolution and Application

The revised Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Consumers （Consumer Protection Law）, which sums up nearly twenty years of the evolution of Chinese punitive damages regulations, sets out a model system of punitive damages. These are in essence a special kind of penalty under a dual public-private legal system in which the punitive and deterrent functions of public law are realized through the mechanism of private law. Their application should be guided by the public law principle that the penalty should be proportionate to the offence. The question of whether the penalty is appropriate arises in the application of the two forms of punitive da^riages prescribed in the Consumer Protection Law--whether used separately or together, or in conjunction with or independently of fines or financial awards. The application of the new punitive damages regulations may overlap with the application of China＇s Food Safety Law and Tort Liability Law.

The New View of Makeup and the Consumption of Cosmetics among the Women of Shanghai in the Modern Age

Under the pressure of the national crisis in modem China,millennia-old traditional concepts have been broken and adjusted,and new trends and ideas have emerged in large numbers.In order to defeat local cosmetics,from the moment they entered China foreign cosmetics companies attacked the traditional Chinese cosmetics of eyebrow pigment(dai),lip pigment(gong),rouge(zhi),and face powder(fen).Corresponding to the enlightenment ideas of the early twentieth century,women could no longer pursue beauty in a way that harmed their bodies.In the movement to liberate women's bodies in the 1920s,radical intellectuals developed a severe criticism of the bad habits of using corsets and applying powder,and the concept of"healthy beauty"came into being.However,in the context of the development of the women's liberation movement and the respect for women's consumer rights,the healthy beauty theory failed to suppress women's consumption of beauty products,and"natural beauty"and"artificial beauty"ultimately coexisted in lifestyles of women in the modem era of Shanghai.