From Governance Officers for the People to Administration for the People: Discovering Administrative Jurisprudence in China

Discovering administrative jurisprudence in China means to look at the history, present and future of the development of administrative rule by law in China from the internal way rather than the external way, and deeply research the jurisprudence kernel of the Chinese-style modernization of administrative rule by law. The demand and motivation of discovering administrative jurisprudence in China come from the process of government governance by law, the people’s yearning for a better public life and the internal rule of administrative jurisprudence. In order to discover administrative jurisprudence in China, we should not only follow the general method of discovering and refining jurisprudence, but also follow the triple path, such as inherit the essence of traditional administrative legal culture, reflect on the gains and losses of modern administrative legal system and explain the innovation of contemporary legal administration practice. From traditional inherent administrative jurisprudence to modern transitional administrative jurisprudence, and then to contemporary reformational administrative jurisprudence, the basic evolution clue of Chinese administrative jurisprudence is to following the rule of law development principle of “the people first”, and realizing the sublimation of administrative jurisprudence from “Governing officials for the people” to “Administration for the people”.