Market moulds state and social monoliths

Against the backdrop of economic globalization, China has also been going through a social transformation. To resolve the problems and conflicts arising during the transformation, the country needs to develop its legal system to strengthen the regulation of State power and to safeguard citizens' rights.

China's social transformation means transformation from a planned economy to a market economy, from a single-sector system of public ownership to a system under which public ownership plays the dominant role and diverse forms of ownership coexist, from the rule of men to the rule of law, and from absolute, managerial government to limited, service-oriented government, from being closed or semi-closed to complete opening-up, and from a highly centralized structure of state and society to a dual structure.

China does not try to achieve social transformation overnight but seeks a gradual progress. A consultative mechanism with Chinese characteristics and a mixed governance model that combines soft with hard laws has been created.