Series highlights Xi's influence on transformative changes
A six-part political documentary exploring the advances made to China's legal system over the past five years is winning praise from analysts and viewers since it's first episode aired Friday.
The documentary, named The Rule of Law in China, is being broadcast one episode a day by China Central Television. It summarizes the improvements to China's rules of law under the leadership of President Xi Jinping since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in November 2012.
Jiang Guohua, a professor of law at Wuhan University, said that under the leadership of the CPC, China has made great progress in advancing the rule of law.
"Just as it is mentioned in the political documentary, advancing the rule of law is the basic characteristic of modern nations," he said.
This has great significance on a number of issues, including promoting economic growth, maintaining social security and boosting clean governance, said Wang Ruolei, an associate professor of politics and law at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC.
Authorities should constantly try to improve the legislation process and ensure that the people could get "a sense of gain" from building a law-based country, government and society, he said.
The president has attached great importance to promoting the rule of law and has pledged on numerous occasions to build a law-based socialist country.
"To implement the rule of law as the basic strategy, and accelerate the building of a law-based socialist country, we should make laws through proper procedures, enforce them strictly, administer justice impartially and ensure that everyone abides by the law," Xi said in a speech on Dec 4, 2012, to mark the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the current Constitution. The speech came soon after he became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in November.
In his speech, Xi vowed to ensure everyone enjoys extensive rights in line with the laws; to protect the rights of the person, property and politics; and to safeguard their economic, cultural and social rights.
While presiding over a group study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in February 2013, Xi raised the goal of developing a law-based country, government and society.
"We should exercise governance and administration in accordance with the laws, develop a law-based country, government and society simultaneously, and thereby bring the rule of law to a new state," he said.
