当代中国法治的多重内涵与战略前瞻

Connotations of and Strategic Outlook on the Rule of Law in Contemporary China

改革开放以来,我国的法治建设经历了三个阶段。从1978年到1996年,治国理念完成了向法制的转变,初步实现了社会治理的法律化和制度化。从1997年到2011年,以"依法治国"载入宪法为标志,实现了从法制到法治的第二次飞跃。从2012年至今,党的十八大乃至十八届四中全会,对全面推进依法治国做出新的战略部署,揭开了中国法治建设的新篇章。这一历程鲜明体现了法治中国建设的模式特征,展现了亮点与困难同在、机遇与挑战并存的情形。未来随着全面深化改革的推进和社会关系的变化,我国的法律体系建设和法治实践也将不断发展和完善。

Since the reform and opening up, the legal development of China has experienced three stages. The first stage is from 1978 to 1996, during which the governing idea became part of the legal system, initially realizing the legalization and institutionalization of social governance. The second stage is from 1997 to 2011, during which the ＂rule of law＂ was written into the constitution, symbolizing the leap-forward from the legal system to the rule of law. Since 2012 till now, the Party＇s Eighteenth Congress and the Fourth Plenum of the Eighteenth CPC Central Committee made new strategic arrangements on promoting the rule of law comprehensively, which wrote a new chapter in China＇s development of the rule of law. This process embodies the characteristics of China＇s mode of developing the rule of law and shows its current situation in which results and difficulties appear at the same time, and opportunities and challenges coexist. With the comprehensive deepening of the reform and changes in the social relations, China＇s legal system and practices in the rule of law will also continue to develop and improve.