Why is the second chapter of General Principles of Civil Law written as "citizen (natural person)" instead of "citizen" or "natural person"? 66

This is actually a joke played by China in the legislative process of promoting the rule of law. Civil law belongs to private law, and citizen is the concept of public law. China's laws have developed the habit of attaching importance to public law (the result of years of ignoring human rights). In the process of formulating the general principles of civil law in the 1980s, a group of old civil law scholars, Jiang Ping, worried that the direct use of the term natural person might encounter greater official pressure, and the draft could not be passed as soon as possible, so they had to adopt the method of using two titles at the same time. This is of course a stopgap measure, but it is really a joke to foreigners. I believe that citizens will be completely removed and natural person titles will be adopted directly when the civil code is formulated.

By the way, in the discussion of the social science edition of the Property Law, Liang Comet suggested changing the contracted management right of rural land into easement or agricultural land use right (because this is more in line with theoretical practice and international habits). At this time, someone put forward the method of using multiple names, which seems to be suspected of making the same mistake. Hmm. How interesting