How does the Chinese Communist Party govern the country?

Chapter 32

Over the past 30 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the [-] years of reform and opening up, China has gone through hardships and twists and turns, and China's democracy and the rule of law have made great historical achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, but there is still a distance from the goals and requirements of a socialist country ruled by law.At present and for a long time to come, it is still a very arduous historical task to fully implement the basic strategy of ruling the country by law and build a socialist country ruled by law.

The socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics needs to be continuously improved.Today, although the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been established, there are still deficiencies in legislation in accordance with the requirements of "complete categories, rigorous structure, internal harmony and scientific style".While the law has a stable, normative and clear character, it also has the defect of "time lag". From the date of promulgation, the law has lagged behind the ever-changing era in a sense. Eliminates its inevitable "stiffness" disadvantages.In particular, China has now entered a critical period of reform and development and building a well-off society in an all-round way. The new situation and changes in the domestic and foreign situation, the new demands and expectations of the broad masses of the people, and the new issues and contradictions faced by reform, development and stability, urgently need a legal system. The construction should be responded and adjusted, especially the legislative work in the fields of economy, society, culture and technology, and ecological civilization urgently needs to be further strengthened.This requires that on the basis of absorbing all the outstanding achievements of human legal civilization, following the law of development of the law itself, combining the reality of reform, opening up and modernization, adapting to the requirements of promoting scientific development, promoting social harmony, and fully implementing the basic strategy of ruling the country according to law, and constantly Improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, realize the timely and effective connection between law and social life, and provide a solid prerequisite and solid foundation for the construction of a socialist country ruled by law.

Constitutional and legal enforcement needs continuous strengthening.Having laws to abide by is the primary link in realizing the rule of law, and after the establishment of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, strengthening the implementation of the Constitution and laws has become the most important link.Without law enforcement, no matter how perfect the legal system is, it is just a castle in the air. Therefore, strengthening the implementation of the Constitution and laws, adhering to the equality of citizens before the law, maintaining social fairness and justice, and maintaining the unity, dignity and authority of the socialist legal system have become a social responsibility. The focus and key to the construction of socialist rule of law.Therefore, while improving various legal systems, it is necessary to continuously establish and improve working mechanisms such as legal interpretation, filing review, and legal and regulatory clearance to ensure the effective implementation of the legal system.

As the ruling party, the Communist Party of China is the leading force in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To govern the country by law and build a socialist country ruled by law, we must uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China. This has dual basis of history and reality, politics and law.The Chinese Communist Party itself must also reform and improve its leadership and governance methods in response to ever-changing world conditions, national conditions, and party conditions, and be good at using laws to manage the country and society.Since the government is the most important organ of political power in the country and has far greater social management power than other power organs, building a government ruled by law is the core and foundation of building a country ruled by law, and a government ruled by law is the premise and guarantee for the realization of law-based administration .On the one hand, administration by law requires administrative agencies to follow the principles of legal powers, legal procedures, fairness and openness, and effective supervision to exercise their powers in accordance with the law. The relationship between administrative management activities.

The judicial system that guarantees social justice needs to be further improved.The judicial system refers to the general term for the nature, tasks, organizational system, principles of organization and activities, and work systems of judicial organs and other judicial organizations in the national system.China's judicial system is centered on court trials, including a set of dispute resolution mechanisms including investigation, prosecution, trial, prison, judicial administration, people's mediation, lawyers, notarization, and state compensation.The Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "deepen the reform of the judicial system, optimize the allocation of judicial powers, standardize judicial behavior, build a fair, efficient and authoritative socialist judicial system, and ensure that judicial organs and procuratorial organs exercise their judicial and procuratorial powers independently and impartially in accordance with the law." At present, the construction of the judicial system still has a certain distance from this requirement, especially in recent years, frequent judicial injustice and judicial corruption have aroused strong concern from the whole society, and judicial reform has become the strong expectation of the whole society nowadays.Judicial justice is the soul and lifeline of the judicial system and an important aspect of ruling the country by law. Therefore, responding to the expectations of the people and deepening the reform of the judicial system have become a major and urgent task.

The legal awareness and legal quality of the whole society need to be strengthened.Legal awareness is a general term for people's various psychology, viewpoints, knowledge and theories about law. It includes both low-level legal awareness and high-level legal ideology.Legal awareness is of great significance to people's respect and observance of the law.It is impossible for a person who knows nothing about the law to respect and obey the law. To improve the level of the whole society in handling affairs according to the law, on the one hand, it is necessary to improve the level of all public servants in governing according to the law, and on the other hand, it is necessary to improve the level of legal awareness of the corresponding subjects. , so that the legal quality of all citizens has been effectively improved.There is still a lot of work to be done to enhance the legal awareness of the whole society and improve the quality of the law, especially to abandon the tradition of rule of man and promote the concept of rule of law in the whole society.The rule of man is a way of governing the country that relies on the will and ability of leaders or rulers to manage the country and society and handle public affairs.Generally speaking, the rule of law is superior to the rule of man, because the law that the rule of law relies on is more certain and stable than the wisdom and talents of the leaders that the rule of man relies on, and it is more conducive to the orderly development and long-term stability of the country and society, and is more capable of Guarantee the realization of modern values ​​such as democracy, freedom and human rights.China's rule of man tradition has a long history, even longer than the history of the birth and growth of the concept of the rule of law. The positive and negative historical experience of the development of the rule of law in the past [-] years since the founding of New China has fully proved that it is necessary to abandon the tradition of rule of man, popularize legal awareness, and strengthen legal awareness. Knowledge, promoting legal concepts, and cultivating a law-abiding atmosphere require unswerving and unremitting efforts.

In short, building socialism with Chinese characteristics is a long-term historical task, and fully implementing the strategy of ruling the country by law and building a socialist country ruled by law is also a long-term and arduous task.As the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics continues to advance, the construction of a socialist country ruled by law will also continue to make progress, providing a solid institutional guarantee for adhering to the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

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