Editor's Note: At a recent symposium in Beijing hosted by the China Institute for Reform and Development, experts exchanged views on future reform in China based on the rule of law. The following are some excerpts from their speeches:

Decision-making should be legal

In the communiqu?? issued by the Fourth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, it was proposed, for the first time, that decision-making procedure should always be in accordance with the law.