In the report given at the Nineteenth National Congress of the CPC, which opened on October 18, 2017, Party-Secretary General Xi Jinping announced the establishment of the Central Leading Group on Ruling the Country by Law in an All-Round Way to strengthen the CPC’s unified leadership over the construction of the rule of law in China. On October 22, 2017, Xinhua News Agency interviewed some legal scholars and experts, including Professor Lu Yanbin, Head of the Department of Survey and Studies of National Situation of Rule of Law of CASS Law Institute, on how to better understand the considerations behind and important messages released by the establishment of the Leading Group. In the interview, Professor Lu pointed out that the establishment of Central Leading Group on Ruling the Country by Law in an All-Round Way indicates that the CPC Central Committee is attaching increasing importance to the construction of the rule of law in China: “Both the solution of new contradictions and the realization of new objectives put forward in the report to the Nineteenth CPC National Congress need the rule of law as their safeguard. The Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Major Issues Pertaining to Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law, adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth CPC Central Committee pointed out that: “One of the basic experience of the construction of the socialist rule of law in China is to implement the Party’s leadership in the whole process and every aspect of ruling the country by law.” It has been proven by practice that every field and sector involved in the construction of the rule of law need be all taken into consideration in a unified planning. The Leading Group is established in response to this need. Its establishment once again shows what the proper relationship between the Party’s leadership and ruling the country by law should be like: the Party should transform the people’s will into the Party’s resolutions, and then transform the Party’s resolutions into state laws so as to ensure that the reform is carried out in accordance with law and that no organization or individual has the privilege above the law.”
Lu Yanbin: The establishment of the Central Leading Group on Ruling the Country by Law in an All-Round Way Shows that the CPC Central Committee Is Attaching More and More Importance to the Construction of the Rule of Law in China
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