Guiding ideology

The people-centered approach was one of 11 requirements stressed by President Xi Jinping in November 2020, when he addressed a central conference on work related to overall law-based governance.

The meeting marked the establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, taking it as the guiding ideology for law-based governance, and the 11 core requirements embody the rich implications of the Thought.

At the meeting, Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, emphasized the need to stay on the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and stressed that the Party's leadership in law-based governance must be upheld.

Yang Weidong, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, said the Thought is the country's milestone in advancing the rule of law, adding that the ideology has been implemented effectively in many aspects of legislation during the past year.

He used the code as an example, adding that the formulation and implementation of laws have contributed to solving people's problems in a number of new fields.