Instead of specifying worldwide regulations on the recognition
and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards for the courts of each
State, the 1958 New York Convention leaves the issue to be solved
by domestic legislation of each contracting State. The applicant
who applies to a Chinese court for the recognition and enforcement
of a foreign arbitral award shall comply with the procedure laws
and rules applied by the Chinese court in dealing with such cases.
However, due to lack of legislation and legislative lag, many
aspects of the procedure rules applied by the Chinese courts in the
recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards are not
clear enough. In practice there are still some issues which need to
be regulated or clarified through legislation or judicial
interpretation. This article briefly introduces current procedural
issues on the ruling of the Chinese courts in respect of the
recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and also
points out the
