China News Service, July 28th. On the 28th, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the historic achievements of comprehensively governing the country according to law in the new era.
Tang Yijun, Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Governing the Country by Law and Minister of Justice, introduced at the meeting that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the level of legal work team building has been continuously improved.
Tang Yijun said that the construction of the public legal service system has been continuously promoted, and legal service teams such as lawyers, notaries, judicial experts, arbitrators, and people's mediators have continued to grow.
As of June 2022, there are 605,000 lawyers and more than 37,000 law firms nationwide.
Improve the national unified legal professional qualification examination system. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a total of 1.029 million people have obtained legal professional qualifications, further strengthen legal education and legal theoretical research, and cultivate a large number of high-quality legal talents and reserve forces.