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China has in the main fulfilled its goal of building a complete legal framework as nearly all major aspects of its political, economic and social life have been covered by laws.
According to a leading official of the Commission of Legislative Affairs of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China's top legislature, the country has made rapid progress in legislation since its reform and opening up launched in the late 1970s.
From 1978 to the end of August this year, he noted, the NPC and its Standing Committee had adopted 301 laws, seven legal explanations and 122 decisions on legal issues.
"It's no exaggeration that on average, there are one or two new laws coming out nearly every month," the official said.
All this work has been done to meet a goal set by the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC): Completing the establishment of a Chinese-style socialist legal framework by the year 2010.
The system will pave the way for the rule of law and turning China into a socialist country governed by law, a basic NPC policy and one written into the Constitution.
According to Gu Angran, chairman of the Commission of Legislative Affairs of the NPC Standing Committee, China's legal framework now comprises more than 200 existing laws and a large number of regulations passed by the State Council as well as regional people's congresses and their standing committees.
(China Daily October 25, 2002)
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