China News Service, Kunming, December 14 (Reporter Hu Yuanhang) The Propaganda Department of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress, and the Yunnan Provincial Higher People’s Court jointly issued a news on the 14th that "The Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress Regarding Strengthening Administrative Trial Work Decisions (hereinafter referred to as "decisions") have been implemented a few days ago.

The decision clarified that the proportion of persons in charge of administrative organs who appear in court should be increased year by year. For cases involving major public interest, high social concern or possible mass incidents, persons in charge of administrative organs should appear in court.

　　According to Zhong Ling, deputy secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress, a total of 16 articles were decided, which stipulated the formation of a good judicial environment for strengthening administrative trial work, the promotion of a new implementation mechanism for non-litigation administrative cases, and the promotion of the reform of centralized jurisdiction over administrative cases. And establish and improve the long-term working contact mechanism between administrative agencies and judicial agencies, and construct the main framework of joint efforts to resolve administrative disputes.

　　It is worth mentioning that, in response to the current situation of "sue officials but fail to see officials" and "not appearing in court" in the current administrative agency's response, the decision also made detailed provisions for the administrative agency to appear in court.

　　The decision is clear: to increase the proportion of persons in charge of administrative organs appearing in court to respond to suits year by year; in accordance with the principle of "who is in charge, who is responsible" and "who implements and who is responsible", determine the person in charge of administrative organs and other staff who specifically exercise administrative powers to appear in court; If the person in charge of the administrative organ fails to appear in court in response to the lawsuit in accordance with the regulations, the people's court shall notify the people's government at the same level and submit judicial suggestions to the supervisory organ and the administrative organ at the next higher level.

　　In addition, the decision also clearly stipulates cases involving major public interests such as food and drug safety, ecological environment and resource protection, public health safety, etc., involving land and house expropriation, resettlement of immigrants, old city reconstruction and other social concerns or may cause mass incidents The person in charge of the administrative organ shall appear in court to respond to the case.

　　Data from the Higher People's Court of Yunnan Province shows that from 2015 to 2019, courts in Yunnan Province accepted 36,648 administrative cases of various types and concluded 35,293 cases, which were 2.25 times and 2.18 times that of the previous five years.

From January to November 2020, 11,375 cases were accepted, a year-on-year increase of 9.65%; 9,761 cases were closed, a year-on-year increase of 9.32%.

As of 2019, the response rate of persons in charge of administrative agencies in the province has reached 60.07%.

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