The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2009 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/10/29/chinese-law-reform-on-the-prcs-60th-birthday/tab/print/

Ambiguities in policy toward law are clear: The Chinese Communist Party has never accepted judicial independence as an official goal. Its chief priority for the last thirty years has been economic development, which is the most important basis for its legitimacy, and preventing the occurrence of political or social events that threaten that legitimacy.