经济法是调整政府管理经济关系的法律。这一涵义表明,经济法最基本的职能是调整政府在干预、管理和调控社会经济运行中的行为的要素而形成的具有经济内容和行政隶属性特征的经济关系。经济法所谓的调整,就是指它把表现在法律中的国家管理经济的意志,借助于其调整机制的作用,渗透到具体的社会经济关系之中去,从而促使或影响具体经济关系中 Economic law is the law regulating the government’s economic relations. This implies that the most basic function of economic law is to adjust the economic relationship characterized by economic content and administrative subordination formed by the government’s intervention in the management, regulation and control of social and economic activities. The so-called adjustment of economic law refers to that it shows the will of the state in the law to manage the economy by means of its adjustment mechanism and penetrates into the specific social-economic relations so as to promote or influence specific economic relations