Editing Socialist law (section)

== Socialist rule of law ==
After China's [[Reform and Opening Up]], the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) emphasized the rule of law as a basic strategy and method for state management of society.<ref name=":Fang">{{Cite book |last=Fang |first=Qiang |title=China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment |publisher=[[Leiden University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9789087284411 |editor-last=Fang |editor-first=Qiang |chapter=Understanding the Rule of Law in Xi's China |editor-last2=Li |editor-first2=Xiaobing}}</ref>{{Rp|page=110}} [[Jiang Zemin]] first called for establishing a socialist rule of law at the [[15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party|Fifteenth Party Congress]] in 1997.<ref name=":Fang" />{{Rp|page=110}} In 2014, the CCP formally adopted a policy of constructing a "socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics."<ref>{{Citation |last=Tiffert |first=Glenn |title=Socialist Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics: A New Genealogy |date=2018-07-05 |work=Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia |pages=72–96 |editor-last=Fu |editor-first=Hualing |edition=1 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |doi=10.1017/9781108347822.004 |isbn=978-1-108-34782-2 |editor2-last=Gillespie |editor2-first=John |editor3-last=Nicholson |editor3-first=Pip |editor4-last=Partlett |editor4-first=William Edmund}}</ref>

In his writings on socialist rule of law, [[Xi Jinping]] has emphasized traditional Chinese concepts including people as the root of the state (''mingben''), "the ideal of no lawsuit" (''tianxia wusong''), "respecting rite and stressing law" (''longli zhongfa''), "virtue first, penalty second" (''dezhu xingfu''), and "promoting virtue and being prudent in punishment" (''mingde shenfa'').<ref name=":Fang2">{{Cite book |last=Fang |first=Qiang |title=China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment |publisher=[[Leiden University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9789087284411 |editor-last=Fang |editor-first=Qiang |chapter=Understanding the Rule of Law in Xi's China |editor-last2=Li |editor-first2=Xiaobing}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=110–111}} Xi states that the two fundamental aspects of the socialist rule of law are: (1) that the political and legal organs (including courts, the police, and the procuratorate) must believe in the law and uphold the law, and (2) all political and legal officials must follow the CCP.<ref name=":Fang2" />{{Rp|page=115}}