With the passage of the “Lawyers Law of the People’s Republic of China” at the Nineteenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People’s Congress on May 15, 1996, the Chinese legal profession entered a period of fast and orderly development. On September 12, 1997, a report released at the Fifteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China formally introduced the term “rule of law” (依法治国)...
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