This is a difficult time for we who have hoped that China's policy of "reform and opening" - begun in 1978 by Deng Xiao Ping - will flourish. Since then China's advances have been unmistakable - economically and in the strength of its legal system. While some have feared that China's turn is away from law, the CPC Central Committee - especially since 2014 - has made clear that strengthening the legal system, and "rule by law" is a firm commitment. Today China's leader Xi Jinping has reaffirmed that.
The contradiction is that while it has strengthened the competence of its judiciary, advanced the development of law, built many law schools of impressive competence, China has, on the other hand, suppressed lawyers for dissidents - many of them Christian - and has swept uncounted (by outsiders) thousands of Uyghurs into retraining and education camps. Painted as a security measure, it seems that Sinification may be a more apt description. And there is the narrowing space for a distinct political-legal culture in Hong Kong.
But Xin Jin Ping has made clear again that "reform and opening" and a turn to rule by law are policies from which the CP will not turn. - GWC
习近平：坚持走中国特色社会主义法治道路 更好推进中国特色社会主义法治体系建设--新闻报道-中国共产党新闻网February 15, 2022 17:05 CPCNEWS.CN
"Seeking truth:
Adhere to the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics
Better promote the construction of socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics"
By: Xi Jinping
Today, the Central Political Bureau conducted the thirty-fifth collective study on building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics. The purpose of arranging this study is to summarize the effectiveness of the construction of the rule of law system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, analyze the problems and shortcomings, adhere to the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics rule of law, and better promote the construction of the rule of law system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
"Law is the right way." Our Party has attached great importance to the construction of the rule of law since the day it was founded. During the New Democratic Revolution, our Party formulated the Outline of the Constitution of the Chinese Soviet Republic and a large number of laws and decrees, and created the "Ma Xiwu trial method", which accumulated practical experience for the establishment of a new legal system. During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the Party led the people in formulating the Constitution and a series of important laws and regulations, such as the Organic Law of State Institutions, the Election Law and the Marriage Law, to establish a socialist legal framework system and a socialist judicial system. During the period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, our Party proposed the policy of "having laws to follow, having laws to follow, enforcing laws strictly, and punishing violations", established the basic strategy of ruling the country by law, set the building of a socialist state under the rule of law as an important goal of socialist modernization, and gradually formed the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core. The system of socialist laws with Chinese characteristics is gradually formed with the Constitution as the core.
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