进入新世纪,根据中国共产党第十六次、第十七次全国代表大会确定的在本世纪头二十年全面建设惠及十几亿人口的更高水平的小康社会这一目标,为了使社会主义民主更加完善,社会主义法制更加完备,依法治国基本方略得到全面落实,更好保障人民权益和社会公平正义,促进社会和谐,中国立法机关进一步加强立法工作,不断提高立法质量。为维护国家主权和领土完整,促进国家和平统一,制定了反分裂国家法;为发展社会主义民主政治,制定了各级人民代表大会常务委员会监督法、行政许可法、行政强制法等法律;为保护公民、法人和其他组织的合法权益,保障和促进社会主义市场经济的健康发展,制定了物权法、侵权责任法、企业破产法、反垄断法、反洗钱法、企业所得税法、车船税法、企业国有资产法、银行业监督管理法等法律;为完善社会保障制度,保障和改善民生,制定了社会保险法、劳动合同法、就业促进法、人民调解法、劳动争议调解仲裁法、食品安全法等法律;为节约资源,保护环境,建设资源节约型、环境友好型社会,制定了可再生能源法、循环经济促进法、环境影响评价法等法律。此外,还制定和修改了一批加强社会管理、维护社会秩序等方面的法律。
与全国人大及其常委会制定各项法律相适应,根据宪法和法律规定的立法权限,国务院、地方人大及其常委会还制定了大量行政法规和地方性法规,为促进中国社会主义民主法制建设,推动中国特色社会主义法律体系形成,发挥了重要作用。
Entering the new century, the CPC set the goal of building a moderately prosperous society of a higher level in all aspects for the benefit of over one billion people by 2020 at its 16th and 17th national congresses. To meet this goal, and to improve socialist democracy and the socialist legal system, fully carry out the basic strategy of governing the country by law, better safeguard the people's rights and interests, social fairness and justice, and promote social harmony, the Chinese legislature strengthened legislation work and constantly improved the quality of legislation. To safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and promote the peaceful reunification of the country, the legislature enacted the Anti-Secession Law. To develop socialist democracy, it enacted the Law on the Supervision of Standing Committees of People's Congresses at All Levels, Administrative Licensing Law, Administrative Coercion Law, and some other laws. To protect the lawful rights and interests of the citizens, legal persons and other organizations, and guarantee and promote the healthy development of the socialist market economy, the legislature enacted the Property Law, Tort Law, Law on Enterprise Bankruptcy, Anti-monopoly Law, Law on Anti-money Laundering, Enterprise Income Tax Law, Law on Vehicle and Vessel Taxation, Law on the State-owned Assets of Enterprises, Banking Supervision Law, and some other laws. To improve the social security system, and ensure and improve the people's livelihood, the legislature enacted the Social Insurance Law, Labor Contract Law, Employment Promotion Law, People's Mediation Law, Law on Labor Dispute Mediation and Arbitration, Food Safety Law, and some other laws. To conserve resources, protect the environment and build a resource-conserving and environmentally-friendly society, the legislature enacted the Law on Renewable Energy, Circular Economy Promotion Law, Law on Environmental Impact Assessment, and some other laws. In addition, the Chinese legislature also promulgated and revised a group of laws to strengthen social management and safeguard social order.
As the NPC and its Standing Committee enact laws, the State Council and local people's congresses and their standing committees, based on their scope of legislative power as prescribed in the Constitution and related laws, have adopted many administrative regulations and local regulations, which play an important role in improving China's socialist democracy and legal system, and promoting the establishment of the socialist system of laws with Chinese characteristics.