| As the most iconic institutional category in contemporary China, the political-legal system refers to the grand governance structure under the leadership of the ruling party, in which the political-legal organs and various governance subjects work together to build a safe China and a China under the rule of law. The historical evolution from the classical rites-law tradition to the modern political-legal system reflects the consistent political concerns of and ideological explorations by Chinese politicians and thinkers on the rise and fall of state governance. From the perspective of frame structure, the basic structure of the political-legal system can be decomposed into three groups of principal axis relationships, namely, the relationships among political-legal organs, the external relationships of political-legal organs, and the relationships between the ruling party and political-legal organs. These three groups of normative doctrines constitute the basic principles of the system design and practical operation of the political-legal system. The normative doctrines of the first group of relationships include self-integration, division of labor and responsibility, mutual cooperation and mutual restriction. The normative doctrines of the second group of relationships include social autonomy priority, grass-roots governance priority and front-end governance priority. The normative doctrines of the third group of relationships include macro leadership, centralized leadership and law-based leadership. The analysis on these three groups of normative doctrines shows that the political-legal system not only follows the general law and common mechanism of modern state governance, but also embodies the local experience and unique wisdom of China's state governance. |
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