Promoting the Political-legal Work against the Backdrop of Political Reform

Since the 18th Party Congress, our political system has undergone profound restructuring with Chinese characteristics. The “Regulation on the Political-legal Work” released earlier 2019 is the first party regulation on relevant work. It asserts the party leadership in the political-legal work but also intuitively regulates the “up, down, left and right” relationship among different party organs. The paper sets out to examine the 2019 Regulation. Specifically, we explore how it factors in forty years’ experience and also reflects the new consensus in the center. What is the political logic behind the 2019 Regulation? What are the political implications? The paper examines the logic of political-legal work in the new era from multiple perspectives, such as the revival of the party’s system, the self-discipline of the party, and coordination both within and out of the political-legal system.