The internal workings of Xi's leadership and the CCP are notoriously opaque, but the announcement on the rule of law can be seen to highlight the primacy of two of Xi's core objectives: political stability with him and the party at the center of power and the promotion of his ideology for guiding the country's development.
Xi, who is chairman of the CCP, highlighted at a recent party conference "the necessity of safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice, and comprehensively advancing rule of law in all aspects of the country's work," the state-run People's Daily newspaper reported on Tuesday.
