The China Legal Development Yearbook, Volume 2 is the English version of 《法制蓝皮书：中国法制发展报告 No. 5 (2007)》 (Rule of Law Year book: China Legal Development Report No. 5 (2007)), edited by the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Professor Li Lin, constitutional law scholar and director of the CASS Institute of Law served as chief editor.

2006 marked the beginning of “the 11th Five-Year-Plan” in China. During the past year, significant progress has been made in the field of socialist democracy and the “rule of law.” The Communist Part…