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The Report of the CPC to its Sixteenth National Congress in November 2002 made governance by law an important part and goal for developing socialist democracy. The report emphasized that the essence of developing socialist democracy is to organically unify the Party’s leadership, the people’s role as masters of the country and the rule of law. According to the report, the leadership of the CPC is the fundamental guarantee for people’s democracy and governance by law; enabling the people to become masters of the country is an essential requirement of socialist democracy; governance by law is a fundamental strategy for the ruling party to lead the people to govern the country. Thereupon, ruling the country by law was defined as the fundamental strategy.
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For the list of 43 larger cities, see the bluebook of this volume, Annual Report on the Transparency of the Chinese Government (2020)—From the Perspective of Information Publication on Government Website.
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Issuance of China’s First Annual Report on Government Affairs Weibo, December 12, 2011, Guangming Daily, p. 4.
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Work Report of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the First Session of the 12th NPC, March 8, 2013.
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Tian, H., Zhou, J. (2019). General Report on China’s Rule of Law 2002–2012. In: Li, L., Tian, H., Lv, Y. (eds) Rule of Law in China. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6541-6_1
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