Although China has already made remarkable achievements in the construction of the rule of law，there is still certain gap between the current situation of the rule of law in China and the expectations of the Chinese people. In the Report to the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China，President Hu Jintao gave a concise and comprehensive evaluation of the achievements made by China in the construction of democracy and the rule of law in the past five years and set the goal of building China into a comprehensively well-off society by the year 2020. In the future development of the rule of law，China should strive to realize four basic transformations，namely transformations from the rule of law to the socialist constitutionalism，from the system of law to the system of the rule of law，from focusing on legislative work to focusing on strengthening the implementation of the Constitution and laws，and from maintaining stability and superficial rule of law to eliminating the root causes of social injustice and the corruption of power. Chinese people should reach as soon as possible a unified understanding and assessment of the current situation of the rule of law in line with the strategic plan of promoting overall implementation of the policy of ruling the country by law and speeding up the construction of a socialist state under the rule of law，so as to make new contributions to the construction of democracy and the rule of law in China at a new historical starting point.