Xinhua -- China must make preparations for implementing the country's Civil Code, which will come into force on Jan. 1, 2021, a group of renowned jurists said at a news briefing of the State Council Information Office in Beijing on July 31.

The Civil Code is a fundamental law of the socialist market economy, and it is of great significance to modernizing China's system and capacity for governance, said Zhang Wenxian, chairman of the Academic Committee of the China Law Society.

Certain individual civil laws, such as the property law, the tort liability law, and the marriage law, will be replaced after the Civil Code is implemented, with relevant judicial interpretations to be cleared up, said Sun Xianzhong, a member of the Academic Committee of the China Law Society.

Sun noted that authorities, including the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, are working to improve those judicial interpretations.