加快完善中国特色社会主义法律体系，以良法促进发展、保障善治

​​(Excerpts from “Speech at the Central People’s Congress Work Conference” by Xi Jinping, Qiushi Journal, No. 02, 2022)

 

加快完善中国特色社会主义法律体系，以良法促进发展、保障善治

 

We should move faster to improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, using sound laws to develop and ensure good governance 
 

要加强党对立法工作的集中统一领导，完善党委领导、人大主导、政府依托、各方参与的立法工作格局。要把改革发展决策同立法决策更好结合起来，既通过深化改革完善法治，又通过更完善的法治保障各领域改革创新，确保国家发展、重大改革于法有据。要统筹推进国内法治和涉外法治，统筹发展和安全，推动我国法域外适用的法律体系建设，用法治方式有效应对挑战、防范风险，维护国家主权、安全、发展利益。要坚持系统观念，统筹立改废释纂，全面完善法律、行政法规、监察法规、地方性法规体系。

 

We must strengthen the Party’s centralized leadership over legislative work and improve the legislative framework featuring guidance from Party committees, the leading role played by people’s congresses, support from the government, and participation by all parties. We should better align decision making for reform and development with legislative decision making, both improving the rule of law through further reform and ensuring reform and innovation in all fields through better rule of law, so as to provide a legal basis for national development and major reforms. We need to advance the rule of law in domestic and foreign affairs in a coordinated manner, balance development and security imperatives, and develop a system of laws for extraterritorial application. We need to use legal means to meet challenges, forestall risks, and safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Applying systems thinking, we should enact, revise, repeal, interpret, and codify laws in a coordinated way and take comprehensive steps to improve the system of laws, administrative regulations, supervisory regulations, and local regulations.

 

全国人大及其常委会是国家立法机关，要在确保质量的前提下加快立法工作步伐，增强立法的系统性、整体性、协同性，使法律体系更加科学完备、统一权威。要加强重点领域、新兴领域、涉外领域立法，注重将社会主义核心价值观融入立法，健全国家治理急需、满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要必备的法律制度。要在条件成熟的立法领域继续开展法典编纂工作。

 

As the national legislature, the NPC and its Standing Committee should speed up the pace of legislative work while ensuring quality, and they should make legislation more systematic, integrated, and coordinated and the legal system better-designed and more complete, unified, and authoritative. They should step up legislation in key and emerging sectors and concerning China’s international related activities. With a focus on imbuing legislation with core socialist values, they should work to perfect the legal systems that are urgently needed for national governance and are necessary for meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life. Codification work should be continued in mature areas of legislation.

 

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来源：《求是》英文版​​​​