Very important per se, European regulatory private law is gaining in importance. Universal application is a feature common to the instruments of European private international law. The wording used by the European legislator is usually the following: ?The law designated as applicable by this Regulation shall be applied whether or not it is the law of a Member State?. Irrespective of whether the person(s) involved have made a choice-of-law agreement, there is a possibility that European judges will find themselves having to apply national laws unknown to them. In light of the massive Chinese migration to Europe, the aim of this paper is to identify the main pillars of current Chinese law, helping European judges in arriving at rulings consistent with a legal system not fully in tune with generally accepted European legal principles, considering in particular Chinese family planning and birth control policy