Full Text: Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012 (5) - CHINA - Globaltimes.cn

Everything said in this new official report is true.  But the infrastructure - the agencies and institutions - charged with enforcing and realizing the commitments lag far behind the laws, which remain skeletal, enforced by institutionally weak, under-financed, and inexperienced courts. - GWC
Full Text: Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012 (5) - CHINA - Globaltimes.cn:

China continues to improve its legal system that protects human rights. Establishing a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and protecting human rights in accordance with the law are the important foundation for China's human rights development. Thanks to unremitting efforts over the years, by the end of 2010 a multi-level socialist legal system with specific Chinese characteristics had been established. This system is based on the realities of China, adapts to the needs of reform and opening up and the socialist modernization drive, epitomizes the will of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people, centers around the Constitution, takes as its mainstay the Constitution-related laws, civil and commercial laws, administrative laws, economic laws, social laws, criminal laws, and litigation and non-litigation procedural laws of different categories, and comprises administrative and local regulations. By the end of 2012 China had enacted 243 active laws, including the current Constitution, 721 administrative regulations and 9,200 local regulations, which are complete in range and cover all relations in the society. Basic and major laws of each category have been formulated and supported with corresponding administrative regulations and local regulations, forming a legal system that is internally scientific, well-coordinated and unified.

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