Professor Winter was commissioned by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) to write an expert opinion on the current draft, which comprises 1,188 articles, highlighting the differences and similarities between Chinese and European law. The photo shows the chair of the drafting committee, Vice Minister Huang Wei, as well as the heads of the expert committees on law, agriculture, environment and natural resources of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress, beneath the calligraphic inscription ‘Office Building of the National People's Congress’. Also present from Germany is Dr Christian Hey, Head of Division at the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture