Beijing News Express (Reporter Wu Wei) On the evening of August 3, the official website of the Ministry of Justice was updated. Yuan Shuhong no longer holds the post of Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Justice. The position of Minister of Justice Tang Yijun is shown as Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

Yuan Shuhong’s position is currently shown as Deputy Minister.

On the Ministry of Justice website, Tang Yijun's position is shown as Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

Worked in Zhejiang for 40 years, former secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee

  The Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Justice was "one-shouldered" by Tang Yijun. Before this change, the Ministry of Justice had been implementing the "dual chiefs system" since 2018.

  Tang Yijun was born in March 1961. His resume shows that from 1977 to 2017, Tang Yijun worked in Zhejiang Province for a total of 40 years.

  In his early years, he served as a full-time secretary at the departmental level of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee.

Since 1997, Tang Yijun has served as a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Zhoushan Municipal Party Committee, and a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.

  In 2016, Tang Yijun was promoted to the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and concurrently served as the Secretary of the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee; in 2017, he served as the Deputy Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee.

In 2017, Tang Yijun left Zhejiang to serve as Deputy Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, Acting Governor, and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Government, and was later elected governor of Liaoning Province.

In April 2020, he left Liaoning to serve as Minister and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Justice.

After taking office as Minister of Justice, he required strict regulation of "powerful persons" for commutation and parole

  On April 29, 2020, Tang Yijun was appointed Minister of Justice.

  At the National Two Meetings held in May of that year, Tang Yijun was interviewed by the media as Minister of Justice for the first time. When talking about the work of the Ministry of Justice, he proposed to strengthen criminal enforcement and legal affairs management, and strictly regulate "powerful people" and "wealthy people". People’s sentence reduction, parole and temporary execution outside prison.

  Tang Yijun said at the time that it is necessary to focus on improving the social fairness and justice and the rule of law guarantee system, strengthen criminal execution and legal affairs management, strictly regulate the reduction of sentences, parole and temporary execution outside prison for "powerful" and "rich people", and promote community corrections in accordance with the law. , Drug rehabilitation work, play the important role of lawyers in promoting judicial justice, accelerate the reform of notarization, judicial authentication and arbitration systems, and promote the modernization of the rule of law guarantee system.

  According to the official website of the Ministry of Justice, in addition to the current party secretary and minister of the Ministry of Justice, Tang Yijun's duties also include: member of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Rule of Law and Deputy Director of the Office, member of the Central Education Work Leading Group, member of the Central Political and Legal Committee, and the Central Judicial System Reform Leading Group Member, member of the National Leading Group for Climate Change and Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction.

  The Central Committee for the Comprehensive Rule of Law was established in March 2018 during the reform of party and state institutions.

Its main responsibilities are to coordinate and coordinate the work of governing the country in accordance with law, adhere to the joint advancement of governing the country according to law, governing by law, and governing by law, adhering to the integrated construction of a country ruled by law, a government governed by law, and a society governed by law, studying major matters and major issues governing the country by law, and coordinating the advancement of scientific legislation , Strict law enforcement, fair justice, law-abiding by the whole people, coordinate the promotion of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and the construction of a socialist country ruled by law.

The Office of the Central Committee for the Rule of Law is located in the Ministry of Justice.

  Beijing News reporter Wu Wei