ABSTRACT
When and if national regulations on the subject of local laws are later approved, the local laws are supposed to become moot. But in fact, they often remain in effect where they were passed. Shanghai has been particularly active in generating "regulations" and "provisions" on a wide variety of subjects (housing, the treatment of juveniles, and other social topics in particular, and even a tentative press law) for which national resources or consensus were insufficient to pass a law.
