On Space Commercialization Trend Of China's Aerospace Construction, Of The Legislative System

With the coming of the new era of outer space, the space commercialization has been an inevitable trend which spreads all over the world. Most space countries, especially space powers, have aerospace legislation to protect the development of its aerospace undertakings. As an indubitable space power in the world, China does not have any concerned law to standardize the aerospace undertakings. It is not matched with the status of a space power and also goes against the development of the aerospace undertakings.The paper consists of five parts as follows:In the first part, the paper gives us a brief introduction of the concept and contents of outer space and space commercialization. Then, it points out the field and scope which outer space commercialized at present. A wonderful foreground has been showed to us by the analysis of the inundant trend of space commercialization.In the next part, the paper analyses the legal foundation from the perspectives of international outer space treaties, national space legislations and bilateral and multilateral treaties. The significance of space commercialization has also been elaborated here.In the third part, two legal problems in the space commercialization including the liability of damages caused by non-governmental organizations and aerospace insurance are discussed and some suggestions are raised to solve these problems. In the fourth part, the necessities of space legislation have been put forward through the discussion of the influence of space commercialization to our aerospace undertakings.In the end, the author analyses the aim and significance of aerospace legislation on the basis of the studying of domestic status. It gives some important definitions of outer space law and contents of the aerospace legislation system which should be set up. Some suggestions are raised for the successful legislation for outer space in China.