The Launching ceremony was chaired by Mr. Xie Shouguang, president of Social Sciences Academic Press. Professor Li Lin, CASS Member and Director of CASS Law Institute, gave a keynote speech on the general situation of the development of the rule of law in China in 2011; Professor Chen Su, Deputy Director of CASS Law Institute, presented a report on the development of the rule of economic law in China since the accession to the WTO; Ms. Yuan Xiumei, Director of the Government Affairs Service Center of the People’s Government of Hainan Province, gave a keynote speech on the reform of the administrative approval system in Haidan Province; Mr. Lu Yuanbin, Deputy Head of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of CASS Law Institute, presented, on behalf of the Investigation Group of the Situation of the Rule of Law in China, a “Report on the Transparency of Chinese Government in 2011”; Mr. Liu Weichun, Director of the General Office and Administrative Service Center of the People’s Government of Dalian City and Mr. Shi Yuanlin, Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Group of the Intermediate People’s Court of Ningpo City, introduced the achievements and experiences in implementing the disclosure of government information and judicial openness by their respective organizations.

At the launching ceremony, the Editorial Office of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law showed two short documentaries prepared by itself. The first one, entitled “A Decade of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law”, reviews the ten years history of development of the Blue Book under the support by the leaderships of the CASS and CASS Law Institute and by various circles of the society and summarizes its academic influence and social impact; the second one, entitled “More Transparency of the Government, Better Life for the People”, introduces with vivid images and language the significance of government transparency and the progresses made as well as existing problems in the work of disclosure of government information in China.