The phrase "rule of law" appeared 19 times in the report General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Wednesday. And in his speech, Xi said "the overall goal of comprehensively advancing law-based governance is to establish a system of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and build a country of socialist rule of law".

In fact, as Xi said, "law-based governance" has been actively developed over the past five years as an important pillar of the "Four Comprehensives".

The Fourth Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee in October 2014 made the historic decision to comprehensively advance the rule of law, which reflects the Party's legal awareness, and its determination to more equitably distribute the fruits of reform and lead the Chinese people into a well-off society.