In November 2013, the CPC announced at the Third Plenary Session of its Eighteenth Central Committee that “the general goal of the plan of comprehensively deepening the reform is to improve and development the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promote modernization of the state governance system and governance ability”. Recently, Professor Li Lin, Director of CASS Law Institute and a member of the Academic Commission of CASS, was interviewed by Shanghai Journal of Party History and Party Construction on issues relating to the construction of a modernized socialist state under the rule of law. In the interview, Professor Li pointed out that modernization of the legal system has been the lofty pursuit of many far-sighted personages since the modern history. However, it was only after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 that conditions were finally ripe for China to truly embark on the road of modernization of the legal system, which, in a sense, is also a process of abolition of the rule of man. During the long process of practice, the CPC has been continuously summarizing its own successful experiences and profound lessons in abolishing the rule of man and constructing the rule of law and has found out through exploration a road to the modernization of the legal system compatible with the national conditions in China. He expounded the concrete content, requirements, and basic principles of the road to the modernization of the legal system compatible with national conditions in China from the perspectives of bottom-line thinking, value pursuit, evaluation criteria, general objectives and tasks, main body, path dependence, direction and approaches, and basic guarantees, explained the relationship between the Party and law, and summarized the development of the legal research in China during the past 60 years.