According to the Chinese Civil Procedure Law, representative litigation is not group litigation in its real sense.

我国民事诉讼法规定的代表人诉讼并非是通常意义上的群体诉讼。

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Article 29 Each party or legal representative may entrust one or two persons to represent him in litigation.

第二十九条当事人、法定代理人，可以委托一至二人代为诉讼。

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For a class action to work, the court wrote, the representative plaintiffs who hold the power to end all litigation over the matter for everybody else must share the same motivations as the rest of the class.

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