At the Second Plenary Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress (March 5th-14th 2004), the Constitution of the PRC underwent yet another revision. As usual, the revision of the Constitution is praised by the Chinese media and deputies to the Congress as “having deep and far reaching significance”, etc.. This periodical revision of the Constitution—four times (1988, 1993, 1999 and 2004) since its adoption in 1982—makes the Chinese Constitution one of the most frequently revised, if not t...