This article summarizes the progresses and analyzes the problems existing in various fields of rule of law, including law-making, administration by law, prevention and punishment of corruption, judicial reform, and construction of the criminal legal system, of the market legal system and of the legal system relating to people's livelihood, in China in the year 2011, and explores the trend of development of rule of law and issues that need to be dealt with in promoting the rule of law in 2012.
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