A senior Party official yesterday called on legal professionals
to be more creative in pushing?for innovation in legal theory,
and in the system and culture of law in China.
"Innovation is the source of a nation's prosperity, and the
strong impetus for the development of legal theory and practice,"
said Luo
Gan, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Commission under
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Luo was addressing the opening ceremony of the Fifth Congress of
the China Law
Society. President Hu Jintao and Vice President Zeng Qinghong
attended the opening ceremony.
The congress, which is being attended by over 400 legal
professionals in China, will fix major goals for the society for
the coming five years and elect new leadership officials in its
three-day meeting.
Luo asked legal professionals to pay more attention to legal
issues that have a stake in improving the country's market economy
system as well as coordinated and sustainable development.
She Mengxiao, deputy vice president of the society, added
priority should be given to studying how to build an open,
competitive and ordered modern market system.
Luo also highlighted the importance of integrating studies on
domestic and international legal issues.
(China Daily November 6, 2003)