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Towards Rule of Law in China: Experiences in the Last Two Decades

Nineteen seventy-eight was a significant year for China because that year China initiated economic reforms and adopted the open-door policy. Twenty years have passed since then and China has undergone unprecedented changes in its society. The Chinese legal system is no exception. This article attempts to review and examine the legal developments during the twenty years from 1978 to 1998, to examine the extent to which the goal of rule of law has been realised and will be realised in China. After the Communist Party of China founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the mainland in 1949, the process of establishing a socialist legal system in China began. The development of the PRC’s legal system is commonly divided into four periods before the economic reform and opendoor policy: the period of the establishment of the legal system (1949-53), the period of the development of the legal system (1954-56), the period when the process of development of the legal system encountered various problems (1957-65), and the period when the legal system was severely undermined (1966-76).’ In fact, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was a political and social catastrophe, which not only undermined but destroyed