依法治国作为治理国家的基本方略，是江泽民同志在党的十五大报告中正式提出的。今年1月，中共中央在《关于修改宪法部分内容的初步意见和说明》中，建议把“实行依法治国、建设社会主义法治国家”作为一项原则写进宪法，上升为国家意志。在九届人大二次会议上，通过了这一建议 Governing the Country by Law as the Basic Strategy for Managing the Country was officially put forward by Comrade Jiang Zemin in the report to the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In January this year, the CPC Central Committee proposed in its “Preliminary Opinions and Explanations on Amending the Constitution,” that it should propose that “implementing the principle of governing the country according to law and building a socialist country ruled by law” be incorporated into the Constitution as a principle and be upgraded to the will of the state. At the second session of the Ninth NPC, this suggestion was adopted