Nation redoubles efforts to promote rule of law

Since the founding of New China in 1949, the country's legal experts have been refining the judicial system. Cao Yin reports.

Editor's note: To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we will publish a series of stories reflecting changes and developments in fields such as law, education, transportation and the environment. This is the first in the series.

When Wei Jiuchuan started his career at a Beijing court in the late 1980s, he rode a bicycle to visit litigants' homes and evaluate assets in property-related disputes. He also had to rely on his own judgment in many of the cases as there were few written rules he could use as points of reference.