President: Country to stay on path of rule of law

Xi said more importance should be attached to the rule of law amid a complicated environment at home and abroad as well as bigger tasks in promoting reform and opening-up and socialist modernization.

He said that to advance overall law-based governance is to protect people's rights, meet their demands and constantly enhance their sense of fulfillment, happiness and security.

In the advancement process, "we should not only inherit Chinese traditional law cultures but also use beneficial achievements of foreign law as a reference, so as to lay a solid legal foundation for building a modern socialist country and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," Xi said.

The president also said the building of the country's legal system should be accelerated, noting that legislation needs to be promoted in some major sectors, including in national security, science and technology innovation, biosecurity, ecological civilization, risk control and foreign-related affairs.

He emphasized law-based government construction, adding that this can mean limiting administrative power, regulating administrative procedures and transforming government functions by rule of law to ensure law enforcement in a civilized manner and improve judicial credibility.

Additionally, justice, as the life and spirit of the judiciary, must be upheld by accepting more judicial responsibility and supporting reforms and strengthening supervision so that everyone feels justice is done in every case, he added.