The article is devoted to the role and place of the People’s Republic of China in the formation of the modern system of international law as general part of normative theory of international relations. The authors draws attention to the peculiarities of the formation of the national legal system of China; factors that influenced the formation of the application of international law in the PRC, the growth of the legislative body after the adoption of the 1982 Constitution, as well as upholding their own ideas, initiated to change the architecture of relations in international law.