| The principal of national treatment is not only a traditional issue of internationaleconomic law but an important legal system as well. After the Second World War,national treatment has been introduced in the field of international investment and hasbecome a key principal of international investment law.Nowadays, bilateral treaties and multilateral conventions have gradually adoptednational treatment in the stage of admission of foreign investment, which is a basictrend in the modern time. Besides, current international investment law could no longermeet the requirement of international trade because of its limitations. Based on thefundamental theory of national treatment, this thesis will focus on structuring anall-sided and constructive international investment legal frame. In the mean time, thisthesis will also explore and study related issues of national treatment under thebackground that China has entered a new stage of development after becoming amember of WTO. |
