“Promoting fairness and justice”

fairness and justice ought to be a defining feature of Chinese socialism, and promoting fairness and justice has been one of the CPC’S overarching goals. China is stepping up efforts to develop institutions vital to ensuring social fairness and justice. A step-by-step process has been ongoing to create an environment that protects equal rights and opportunities, promotes fair play, and ensures people’s equal rights to participation and development.

The Party and state leaders have made repeated references to this initiative. In November 2013 in his explanatory note to the CPC Central Committee’s decision on further reforms, Xi Jinping discussed the importance of further promoting fair competition and social fairness and justice as an essential part of China’s ongoing efforts to pursue all-round reform.

At a central conference on the administration of justice in January 2014, he underscored social fairness and justice as a core value of the judicial system, and the organs of that system as the last bastion of social justice and fairness.