Party Regulations: Changing the Rules of the Game?

This first issue of the relaunched Chinese Law and Government is being published as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) holds its 20th National Party Congress. Party congresses have long drawn attention from scholars of Chinese politics. But personnel changes tend to capture the limelight, overshadowing amendments to the Party Charter and the policysetting role of the Report to the Congress (Miller, 2017; Tobin, 2020). This issue of Chinese Law and Government shows that important structural developments over the past decade demand renewed attention to the Charter and the Congress Report.