This meeting directly faced the outstanding issues in China's rule of law construction, and made relatively comprehensive and detailed arrangements for scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice, law-abiding by all people, and the construction of rule of law teams.
Emphasis on governing the country in accordance with the constitution and governing in accordance with the constitution; emphasizing the organic unity of "party leadership" and "socialist rule of law". Only under the leadership of the party, the country is governed in accordance with the law and the rule of law is strictly enforced, and the people are the masters of the country. Only in this way can the legalization of national and social life be advanced in an orderly manner. It is not difficult to see that the conference painted a blueprint for China's rule of law with a pragmatic style that is different from the Western model.
China has its own cultural traditions and unique national conditions, and the rule of law cannot copy the Western model. In this sense, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is a key "top-level design" made by the Communist Party of China on how it should "govern the country according to law."
This is not only an implementation of the commitment of the new leadership of the Communist Party of China to governing, a strengthening of its governance capabilities, but also a leap forward in leading China towards the great goal of national rejuvenation.
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As the top-level design of the rule of law, a major theoretical innovation of the "Decision" is to summarize the overall goal of comprehensively promoting the rule of law as "building socialism with Chinese characteristics" System of the rule of law and building a socialist country under the rule of law", and comprehensively and systematically elaborated on this overall goal.
This is the first time that the concept of "socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics" appears in important party documents. Mencius has a famous saying: "The law alone is not enough to act on its own." For thousands of years, China has had laws but no rule of law. The key is that there is no system and operating mechanism to guarantee the authority of the law and the implementation of the rule of law. Power, especially Kingship is higher than law.
Since the reform and opening up, our legislative work has achieved remarkable results, and a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been formed. However, as the "Decision" frankly stated, the phenomenon of failure to comply with the law, lax enforcement of laws, and failure to investigate violations is still relatively serious. The phenomena of knowing the law and breaking the law, using words to replace the law, using power to suppress the law, and bending the law for personal gain still exist.
Therefore, we must shift the focus of building a socialist country under the rule of law to studying the law, respecting the law, abiding by the law and enforcing the law, taking the construction of a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics as the overall starting point, and fully implementing all the provisions of the "Decision" Requirements so that everyone respects and consciously abides by the law.
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