China’s President Xi Jinping stresses significance of protecting people’s rights, interests

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has emphasised the full recognition of the significance of the promulgation and implementation of the country’s newly adopted Civil Code and better protection of the people’s legitimate rights and interests in accordance with law.

Xi made the remarks on Friday while presiding over a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on the effective implementation of the Civil Code.

Xi demanded the whole Party effectively promote the implementation of the Civil Code in order to better advance law-based governance of the country and the building of a socialist country based on the rule of law, and better protect the people’s rights and interests.

Noting that the Civil Code is the first law to carry the title “code” since New China was founded in 1949, Xi said it marks a major achievement of the country in developing socialist rule of law in the new era.

The Civil Code systematically integrates the civil legal norms formed through long-term practices during more than 70 years of New China, drawing upon the Chinese nation’s fine legal culture stretching back more than 5,000 years, and mankind’s beneficial achievements in building a law-based civilisation, Xi stressed.