Innovation Project Team on the Rule of Law Index，Institute of Law，Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:  Project team leaders：Tian He，the director of the National Rule of Law Index Research Center，Chinese Academy of Social Sciences （CASS），and a research fellow at Institute of Law，CASS；Lyu Yanbin，the director of the Research Office on the Situation of Rule of Law in China and a research fellow of Institute of Law，CASS. Project team members：Wang Xiaomei，Wang Yiming，Che Wenbo，Tian Chuncai，Feng Yingying，Liu Yanpeng，Mi Xiaomin，Hu Changming，Hong Mei，and Li Yanjie，et al （sorted by the strokes of family name）. Written by：Liu Yanpeng，an assistant researcher at the Institute of Law，Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.