CHINA'S new leader Xi Jinping gave a major address recently in which he pledged to curtail power and investigate violations of the law so as to protect the rights of Chinese citizens. "No organisation or individual has the special rights to overstep the Constitution and law; any violation of the Constitution and the law must be investigated," he said at a congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on Dec 4, 1982.
The speech created the impression that Mr Xi would take steps to protect rights which, while enshrined in the Constitution, had not previously been observed.
One academic, Han Dayuan, dean of the law school at Renmin University, said Mr Xi had sent a strong message and emphasised the rights of the people, which had not been mentioned by his predecessor, Hu Jintao, at the 20th anniversary of the Constitution in 2002.
In fact, Mr Hu, in his speech a decade ago, did declare that the Constitution provided a "reliable legal guarantee" for ordinary people to "fully enjoy their democratic rights". Nonetheless, there is little doubt that Mr Xi's speech stirred hope that there may be greater emphasis on constitutionalism and the rule of law in the coming years.
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