The draft of China's first civil code will be submitted to the annual session of the National People's Congress for deliberation next week.

A civil code is an "encyclopedia of the people's lives". It is the most important law covering the private sphere.

"Actually in Europe, for the personality rights, they are regulating only by case law, just by fragmentation of regulations. In their civil code, there is no personality rights, or very few provisions on personality rights," Professor Shi Jiayou from the Renmin University of China said. 

China will incorporate personality rights provisions into an independent section of the code. 

The personality rights section covers stipulations on regulating studies related to human genes, banning illegal entries, spying on and filming in others' private spaces, and a number of additional hot topics of public interest. 

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