Upholding a people-centered approach, the rule of law safeguards people's livelihoods
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https://doi.org/10.63313/LH.9013Keywords:
Thought on the Rule of Law, People-centered, People’s Livelihood SecurityAbstract
The Thought on the Rule of Law signifies the latest development in the Siniciza-tion of Marxist legal theory, serving as the fundamental guideline and action plan for comprehensively advancing law-based governance. Its core tenet em-phasizes a people-centered approach, ensuring the rule of law serves the popu-lace. Consequently, the construction of the rule of law must be guided by the practical imperative of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods. These two aspects achieve synergistic development through institutional interaction: the rule of law provides the normative foundation for ensuring people's well-being, while the demands of the people drive the improvement of the legal system. Currently, China's system for ensuring people's well-being still faces certain structural contradictions, highlighting the institutional tension between policy supply and implementation effectiveness. The absence of adequate safe-guards for people's well-being not only undermines social fairness and justice but also weakens the authority of the rule of law and the foundation of govern-ance. Therefore, it is imperative to construct a closed-loop mechanism of "needs identification - institutional optimization - effectiveness enhancement": opti-mizing institutional design through the precise identification of people's needs, enhancing policy implementation effectiveness through legal means, and ulti-mately achieving good governance through the rule of law in the realm of peo-ple's well-being. Upholding a people-centered approach, the rule of law safe-guards people's livelihoods.
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