Construction of the rule of law: safeguard fairness and justice, and ensure long-term stability
In March 2021, the staff of the People's Procuratorate of Hengshui City, Hebei Province explained the Constitution to students at Hengshui Middle School.
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On December 1, 2020, the judge of the Binhu People's Court of the People's Court of Baohe District, Hefei City, Anhui Province showed the legal emblem to the students, introducing its origin and the story behind it.
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On March 28, 2021, the staff of the Judicial Auxiliary Center of the People's Court of Altay City, Xinjiang were mediating conflicts and disputes.
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"Overview of the modern history of the world, no country that has successfully achieved modernization has not solved the problem of rule of law and rule of man well." At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly.
The rule of law will prosper the country, and the decline of the rule of law will cause chaos.
Through the years and the beginning, the Chinese Communists have never stopped pursuing fairness and justice and exploring the road to the rule of law. During the period of the New Democratic Revolution, the party leadership formulated a series of laws and decrees and created the "Maxi Fifth Trial Method." After the founding of New China, the party led the people to establish a socialist legal framework system and a socialist judicial system. In the new historical period of reform and opening up, our party has always put the rule of law into consideration, planning, and advancement in the overall work of the party and the country. From the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on "improving the socialist legal system," to the establishment of the basic strategy of governing the country by law at the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of socialist rule of law has continued to advance.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the rule of law has become our party's basic way of governing the country. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has incorporated comprehensive rule of law into the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, established the Central Committee for Comprehensive Rule of Law, clarified the guiding position of Xi Jinping’s rule of law in comprehensive rule of law, and a series of major measures to promote the construction of socialist rule of law Historical changes have taken place, historical achievements have been made, and the people's sense of gaining the rule of law has continued to increase.
1 Promote and guarantee good governance with good laws
Not long ago, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress deliberated and passed 8 laws and related decisions, including the Data Security Law and the Hainan Free Trade Port Law. These "new members" immediately "entered" the national laws and regulations database.
The database of national laws and regulations, which includes the legal texts of our country's constitution, laws, administrative regulations, local regulations, judicial interpretations, etc., shows people the vast galaxy of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics in the most intuitive way.
The rules are determined one by one, and each word is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. The light of the rule of law guards fairness and justice and shines on the road to revival.
From the Outline of the Constitution of the Chinese Soviet Republic to the Land Regulations of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, a number of legal systems have been established since the founding of New China, and since the reform and opening up, the legislative work has entered the fast lane, and the party has led the people to legislate and bear fruit.
With the formation of a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, the people's expectations for legislation have gradually changed from "does it" to "good or not" "does it work" or "can it solve practical problems".
How to further advance scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation is a test of the wisdom of legislators.
Amend the constitution to include the theoretical, practical, and institutional innovations since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in the fundamental law of the country to provide fundamental legal protection for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; compile the civil code known as the "Civil Rights Declaration and Guarantee" , All aspects of social life have more laws to follow; amendments to the rural land contract law to adapt to the overall situation of reform and development; legislation in emerging fields such as e-commerce law and cyber security law has continued to emerge... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the legislature has accelerated legal reforms. The establishment, reform, abolishment, and interpretation will help modernize the country's governance system and governance capabilities.
Today, people’s congresses at all levels have built more than 220,000 deputies’ liaison stations and deputies’ homes. The establishment of grassroots legislative liaison points has allowed the “original voice of the people” to reach the highest legislature.
The axes of democracy and the rule of law are constantly expanding.
2 Put power in the cage of the system
In July 2020, the first batch of more than 1,300 residents from Jiayuan Community, Weigong Village, Haidian District, Beijing, moved back to their original sites, and happiness and satisfaction filled everyone's face.
Since the Haidian District launched the shed reform project in 2017, residents of the community have actively participated in discussions, decision-making and supervision to ensure that every procedure is running in the sun.
The vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation.
Administrative law enforcement promotes the transformation of laws on paper into laws in real life, and has the most direct and close relationship with the people.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of a government under the rule of law has shifted and speeded up, and administration according to law has become a hot topic.
At the beginning of 2014, a list of departmental administrative examination and approval items quietly appeared on the official websites of various departments of the State Council.
This is the first time that the central government has published a list of powers and revealed the "household" of power.
Subsequently, governments at all levels comprehensively cleaned up and disclosed administrative examination and approval matters, established lists of powers, negative lists, and responsibilities, and used the "subtraction" of administrative power in exchange for the "multiplication" of market vitality.
Public participation, expert argumentation, risk assessment, legitimacy review, and collective discussion decisions. From September 1, 2019, the "Interim Regulations on Major Administrative Decision-Making Procedures" came into effect to ensure that major decision-making systems are scientific, procedurally sound, process open, and responsibilities clear , To put an end to "decision on the head".
The Public Security and Civilian Police Department is on the front line of law enforcement, and often faces intense conflicts, and every move may cause great concern.
In September 2016, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Standardization of Public Security Law Enforcement". The professionalization of public security law enforcement teams, the standardization of law enforcement behavior, the systematization of law enforcement management, and the informatization of law enforcement processes have made great strides forward.
Since 2019, the administrative law enforcement publicity system, the entire law enforcement process recording system, and the major law enforcement decision legal review system have been fully implemented. They have pointed out the lack of strictness, irregularity, uncivilized, and opaque issues in the administrative law enforcement process, and launched strict regulations on law enforcement. "Combination boxing."
Doing small things well is big things.
Governments at all levels have actively promoted the reform of "delegation, control, and service", and more and more issues have been "run once at most."
3 The last line of defense for fairness and justice
With blue bricks and gray tiles, cornices and corners, we walked into the Qiliping Revolutionary Court in Hong'an, Hubei, an old revolutionary district. The architectural style of the year is still clearly recognizable.
The Qiliping Revolutionary Court is known as the "first court of the Chinese Revolution". It has experienced a vigorous agrarian revolution and witnessed the party's courage and determination to use legal means to bring justice to the poor peasants.
"All people are one mind, follow the party closely, Park Cheng is courageous, endlessly vigorous", the sixteen characters on the court wall are shining brightly.
The key to managing the country lies in fairness and justice.
Fairness and justice have always been an important part of the people's yearning for a better life.
And justice is the last line of defense to maintain social fairness and justice.
"Efforts to make the people feel fair and just in every judicial case"-In order to fulfill this clamorous oath, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a self-revolution in the judicial field that touches the soul has opened. The reform of the system has solved outstanding problems such as low judicial credibility, judicial unfairness, and judicial corruption.
The implementation of the reform of the registration system has made "if there are cases not filed, and there are no litigations" has become a history; the reform of the post system has been promoted, judges and prosecutors across the country have been "shuffled", and more than 120,000 judges and more than 90,000 prosecutors have been selected. Reform of the judicial accountability system to realize "judgment by the adjudicator and the responsibility of the adjudicator"; improve the supervision and restriction mechanism of judicial power operation, improve the system of leaving traces throughout the supervision of cases, establish a record and report system for interfering in judicial case handling, and prevent "money cases" "Relationship case" and "personal situation case"; the Supreme People's Procuratorate reorganized ten prosecutors' offices to realize the reformation of improving legal supervision capabilities and advancing the construction of specialization.
One in ten thousand wrong cases is 100% harm to the parties involved.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, major wrongful cases such as the Hugejile pattern and the Nie Shubin case have been corrected in accordance with the law.
Promote the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on trial, implement modern criminal justice principles such as "no suspected crime, evidence judgment, etc.", and raise the level of judicial protection of human rights to a new level.
Judicial system reform and smart justice are the "two wheels of a car and two wings of a bird" of judicial work.
The construction of the "smart court" is accelerated, and the entire business is handled online and the entire process is disclosed in accordance with the law.
"Smart procuratorial services" play the role of big data in intelligent retrieval, push notification of similar cases, and assist in conviction and sentencing, and promote the transformation of procuratorial informatization to "equal emphasis on service management and case handling."
Wisdom justice has become a beautiful business card of Chinese justice.
4 Let the belief in the rule of law be deeply rooted in the hearts of citizens
Milin, Tibet, is a small remote town located in the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley.
Since 2014, the aid of Tibetan lawyers from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has finally taken off the label of “No Lawyer County”, and the belief in the rule of law has taken root in this small city.
Law is written morality, morality is inner law.
Only when the law is sincerely believed can it not be in vain.
"I swear: loyal to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, safeguard the authority of the Constitution, and perform legal duties..." On February 26, 2016, the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress held its first constitutional oath ceremony in the Great Hall of the People.
Implement the constitutional oath system, establish the National Constitution Day and the Constitution Propaganda Week, and create a strong atmosphere for abiding by the constitution, safeguarding the constitution, and promoting the spirit of the constitution.
"The body is upright and does not order."
To promote law-abiding by the whole people, we must seize the "critical minority."
Improving the law study and usage system for national staff, and whether they can abide by the law and act in accordance with the law has become an important basis for inspecting cadres.
The main persons in charge of local party committees and governments at or above the county level are listed as the first persons responsible for advancing the construction of the rule of law, and the performance of their duties is included in the performance evaluation index system.
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council forwarded the "Eighth Five-Year Plan of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice on Propaganda and Education on the Rule of Law (2021-2025)", and the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" law popularization was officially launched.
Looking back on the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" law popularization, in five years, a shining "transcript" was handed in: the study and publicity of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics centered on the constitution was carried out in depth, and "who enforces the law will popularize the law" and other legal responsibility systems Widely implemented, the rule of law culture has flourished, the concept of the rule of law in the whole society has been significantly enhanced, and the level of the rule of law in social governance has been significantly improved.
The comprehensive analysis report of the National Social Psychology Survey in 2020 shows that when oneself or family members encounter unfair things, those who choose "solve through legal channels" rank first, an increase of 3.7% over 2016; choose "trust relationship, find acquaintances" "The ratio has dropped significantly.
Looking for a lawyer, office certification, legal aid, identification, mediation... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction of the public legal service system has achieved remarkable results, and a public legal service platform network covering urban and rural areas has been initially established.
At present, more than 640,000 villages (residentials) across the country are equipped with legal consultants. From "visiting" to "the law" and "who can make trouble, he is justified", to the present, the concept of the rule of law has penetrated into China. The smallest unit of society is deeply rooted in the hearts of the masses.
Those who rule the world are good at planning the general situation; those who decide the winner and lose are good at layout.
To promote the rule of law in an all-round way and to unswervingly enforce the rule of law is to plan for future generations and seek long-term development.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the socialist rule of law has taken root in this ancient land with a splendid civilized history. The magnificent picture of the rule of law in China is slowly spreading, and the rule of law in a comprehensive way is clever and unstoppable.
(Our reporter Jin Hao, Chen Huijuan, Liu Huadong and Wang Jinhu)