[Explanation] On July 26, the Supreme People's Court held a press conference and issued the "Opinions of the Supreme People's Court on Providing Judicial Services and Guarantees for Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization and Accelerating the Modernization of Agriculture and Rural Areas."
He Shu, deputy chief of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court, said that the People's Court will use judicial means to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and accelerate agricultural and rural modernization.
[Explanation] In terms of serving the revitalization of rural industries, He Shu mentioned that the traditional disputes in the "three rural" fields, as well as the disputes of new business forms such as leisure agriculture and health care, should be properly handled to promote the integrated development of rural industries.
[Concurrent] He Shu, Deputy Chief of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court
Through in-depth implementation of the food security strategy, and actively participating in the special action to protect the intellectual property rights of the seed industry, we will serve the seed industry's technological self-reliance and self-reliance, independent and controllable seed sources, and promote the revitalization of the seed industry.
By properly handling cases involving the protection of agricultural and rural development factors, urban and rural economic cycles, expropriation and expropriation, etc., ensure agricultural and rural reforms and promote the development of the agricultural industry.
[Explanation] In terms of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of farmers, it is necessary to promote the implementation of equal employment and equal pay for equal work for urban and rural workers, and guarantee the payment of wages and related rights and interests of migrant workers in accordance with the law.
[Concurrent] He Shu, Deputy Chief of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court
By properly hearing other disputes involving the "three-rights separation" of rural land and the development of rural industries in accordance with the law, farmers can share more of the value-added benefits of the industry.
The "three rights" of farmers who settle in cities shall be guaranteed in accordance with the law, that is, the right to contract land, the right to use homesteads, and the right to collective income distribution, and promote farmers who have a stable job life in cities and towns to settle in cities voluntarily and orderly.
Promote the implementation of equal employment and equal pay for equal work for urban and rural workers, and guarantee the payment of migrant workers' wages and the realization of related rights and interests in accordance with the law.
[Explanation] In terms of promoting the rule of law and the rule of morality in rural areas, He Shu said that bad habits such as high-priced gifts and abuse of abandoned family members should be dealt with in accordance with the law.
[Concurrent] He Shu, Deputy Chief of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court
Promote the substantive resolution and source resolution of such conflicts and disputes through proper handling of rural family affairs and neighbourhood disputes, manage high-priced gifts, interfere with freedom of marriage, abuse and abandon family members and other bad habits in accordance with the law, combat feudal superstition activities, and cultivate and promote the core of socialism Values.
[Explanation] In terms of protecting the rural ecological environment, by properly hearing environmental resource cases in accordance with the law, establishing and improving the law enforcement coordination and linkage mechanism with environmental authorities, promoting the overall green transformation of economic and social development, and improving the rural ecological environment.
[Explanation] It is understood that from 2018 to 2020, the people's courts across the country accepted a total of 12.7 million cases and concluded 12.59 million cases, accounting for a quarter of the cases closed by grassroots courts across the country during the same period.
(Reported by reporter Shan Lu from Beijing)
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】