Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (Chinese:习近平法治思想) is the current doctrine of the People's Republic of China regarding law. It is a part of the largerXi Jinping Thought, which is derived from theGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist PartyXi Jinping. It was established during the Central Conference on Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law, held in November 2020.
The first Central Conference on Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law in theChinese Communist Party's history was held from November 16 to 17, 2020. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law was first proposed and established during the conference defined as the guiding ideology for comprehensively promoting the rule of law.[1][2][3] The conference also instructed the whole country to study the Thought as "one of the pivotal pillars of the ideological complex that supports the country in the years to come".[4]
In June 2021, the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law was established in theChina Law Society with the approval of theCCP Central Committee. At a speech during the launch, China Law Society DirectorWang Chen called the Thought "the latest achievement in the Sinicization of Marxist theory on the rule of law".[5]
According to the Central Conference on Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law is made up of "eleven insistences".[6] These are insisting on:[2]