[Explanation] This live broadcast room is silent, but there are two or three thousand netizens watching and interacting.

This is a silent live broadcast room. The anchor Tang Shuai, known as "the first Chinese sign language lawyer", uses sign language to answer various legal questions raised by deaf netizens online.

  [Explanation] On September 24, the reporter saw Tang Shuai who was live broadcast.

During the live broadcast, Tang Shuai did not speak, and kept signing to the camera.

In the live broadcast room, deaf netizens either left a message to describe the case in the comments, or communicated with Tang Shuai one-on-one through the "Live PK" function.

Although the connection with everyone was only a few minutes, Tang Shuai tried his best to let the seekers know what the legal remedies were, how to defend their rights, how to recover losses, and how to prevent similar problems again.

  [Concurrent] Tang Shuai, a sign language lawyer at Chongqing Huadai Law Firm

  After nearly two years of online legal popularization, the legal awareness of the deaf across the country has also been continuously improved.

It can be seen from the legal consultation questions they are raising now that many deaf people now ask legal questions, and it is rare to see how to get divorced and how to end marriage.

Basically, labor disputes, contract disputes, inheritance of inheritance and so on.

Through these questions you can see the gradual change of their legal consciousness.

  [Commentary] Tang Shuai's parents are both deaf, and he is a healthy person.

In 2006, Tang Shuai became a full-time sign language interpreter.

In his work, he found that due to lack of legal awareness or communication barriers, it is particularly difficult for deaf groups to defend their rights.

So, in 2012, Tang Shuai passed the judicial examination and became a full-time lawyer.

  [Concurrent] Tang Shuai, a sign language lawyer at Chongqing Huadai Law Firm

  In terms of understanding of them, or in terms of empathy, I definitely want more.

Because I know this group better.

Therefore, I am very aware of their real living conditions, as well as some difficulties, difficulties, and even obstacles they encounter in participating in legal life.

So that's what directly motivated me to want to be a sign language lawyer.

  [Explanation] Since then, he has devoted most of his time and energy to deaf legal proceedings.

Over the years, Tang Shuai and his team have received nearly 160,000 requests from the deaf community.

The deaf people regarded Tang Shuai as a life-saving straw, believing that he would "speak" for them and achieve justice.

  [Commentary] Tang Shuai said that there are nearly 30 million hearing-impaired people in China. As a sign language lawyer, he often feels powerless.

At the beginning of 2020, he began to upload French popularization videos on the short video platform, and live broadcast from time to time to accurately popularize the law for the deaf.

He wants to raise the legal awareness of deaf people through this form of live-streaming legal popularization.

At the same time, a more convenient legal aid window will be opened for deaf people, so that they will no longer have "suffering" to say.

  [Concurrent] Tang Shuai, a sign language lawyer at Chongqing Huadai Law Firm

  Our country is in urgent need of sign language police officers, sign language prosecutors, sign language judges, sign language lawyers, and sign language notaries.

That is to say, there is a very shortage of talents in the new era of compound law.

Now, in addition to recruiting deaf people who have graduated from college to study law in our law firm, we train deaf legal professionals.

Now Southwest University of Political Science and Law has also opened an experimental class for outstanding public legal service talents, dedicated to cultivating new-era legal compound professionals who are proficient in both sign language and law.

Then this part of the people is to build a foundation for the public legal service system for the deaf group.

  Reported by Jia Nan and Jiang Xinke in Chongqing

Responsible editor: [Wang Kai]