中共中央总书记江泽民在前不久结束的中国共产党第十五次全国代表大会所做的报告中,提出“依法治国,建设社会主义法治国家”。这是中国改革开放的总设计师邓小平民主法制理论的精髓,也是我国政治体制改革的重要内容和目标。在改革开放和现代化建设的进程中,我们要始终把发展社会主义民主、健全社会主义法制,坚定不移地走依法治国之路,作为事关全局的大 In his report to the 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which concluded shortly before, CPC Central Committee General Secretary Jiang Zemin proposed that “governing the country according to law and building a socialist country ruled by law”. This is the essence of Deng Xiaoping Theory on Democracy and Law, which is the chief architect of China’s reform and opening up. It is also an important content and goal of the political reform in our country. In the course of reform and opening up and the process of modernization, we must always take the road of developing socialist democracy and improving the socialist legal system and unswervingly follow the path of governing the country according to law,