Focus Interview, Struggle for a New Great Cause -- Comprehensively Governing the Country by Law and Building a Rule of Law in China

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"If the good law is established in the world, the world will be governed. If the good law is established in one country, one country will be governed." The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core attaches great importance to the comprehensive rule of law, positioning the rule of law, laying out the rule of law, and strictly enforcing the rule of law from the strategic height of the long-term stability of the party and the country, and putting the comprehensive rule of law in the overall development of the party and the country. To advance. In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping made new arrangements for comprehensively governing the country according to law. In today's program, we focus on "adhering to the rule of law in an all-round way and promoting the construction of China under the rule of law", and invite relevant people to interpret it.

 

The seventh part of the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China focuses on the theme of adhering to the comprehensive rule of law and promoting the construction of the rule of law in China. General Secretary Xi Jinping first pointed out in the report the great significance of comprehensively governing the country according to law: comprehensively governing the country according to law is a profound revolution in national governance, which is related to the party's governance and rejuvenation of the country, the happiness and well-being of the people, and the long-term stability of the party and the country.

 

chen yixin, secretary general of the central political and legal commission:The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made the construction of the rule of law as a separate part for a special chapter and special deployment. This is the first time in the history of our party congress. This fully reflects that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to the construction of the rule of law. It fully reflects that our party is not only a party that dares to revolution, is good at construction, and has the courage to reform, but also a party that believes in the rule of law, adheres to the rule of law, and builds the rule of law.

 

he rong, deputy secretary of the party leading group of the supreme people's court and vice president in charge of daily work:The special chapter of the report deploys the strategic task of adhering to the comprehensive rule of law and promoting the construction of the rule of law in China. It embodies the high consensus of the whole party and the whole country. It fully demonstrates that the rule of law is the basic way of governing the country, and is an important support for the national governance system and governance capabilities. It is a milestone in the history of socialist rule of law construction in my country.

 

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has, from the overall and strategic height of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, positioned the rule of law, laid out the rule of law, and strictly enforced the rule of law, and creatively put forward a series of new ideas, ideas and strategies for comprehensively governing the country according to law. Xi Jinping's thinking on the rule of law is the most important landmark achievement of the construction of the rule of law in the new era.

 

chen yixin, secretary general of the central political and legal commission:Xi Jinping's thought of the rule of law is the most comprehensive, systematic and scientific ideological system of the rule of law put forward by our party in the past century. This thought has opened up a new realm of Marxist theory of the rule of law, expanded the new road of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, endowed new connotations of Chinese rule of law civilization, and contributed new wisdom to maintaining the international rule of law order. It is the most original contemporary Chinese Marxist rule of law theory.

 

Xi Jinping's thought of the rule of law promotes the construction of the rule of law in China to create a new situation, in order to give full play to the role of the rule of law in strengthening the fundamentals, stabilizing expectations and benefiting the long-term, and to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way on the track of the rule of law. The report further points out the direction and goal of the next step: we should adhere to the road of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, build a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and build a socialist country ruled by law.

 

shen chunyao, chairman of the legislative affairs committee of the npc standing committee:Building a socialist country under the rule of law is one of our goals. The key is the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics. This is our general starting point for promoting the comprehensive rule of law. Specifically, it includes five sub-systems. It is necessary to form a complete legal norm system, an efficient rule of law implementation system, a strict rule of law supervision system, a strong rule of law guarantee system, and a complete inner-party legal system. Summarize it.

 

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clarified that the work layout of the comprehensive rule of law is: adhere to the rule of law, rule of law, and administration according to law, adhere to the construction of a country under the rule of law, a government under the rule of law, and a society under the rule of law, and comprehensively promote scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice, and all people Law-abiding. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also specifically deployed four aspects of work: improving the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core, solidly advancing administration according to law, strict and fair justice, and accelerating the construction of a society ruled by law.

 

chen yixin, secretary general of the central political and legal commission:The seventh part of the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, centering on the new situation and new tasks of comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law, has made many new arrangements for the construction of the rule of law in the new era, especially for scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice, The key links in the field of law-abiding by the whole people have put forward many new judgments and new requirements, which are the action guidelines that must be followed in the construction of the rule of law in the new era.

 

The report proposes to improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core. After long-term efforts, China has formed a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, and there are laws to follow in all aspects of national and social life. In the past ten years of the new era, a number of laws that are urgently needed for national governance and necessary to meet the people's growing needs for a better life have been promulgated or revised and improved, and the civil code has been compiled; more than 20 laws such as the National Security Law and the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law have been formulated and revised; The Vaccine Management Law and the Family Education Promotion Law have been formulated and revised to solve outstanding issues of concern to the masses from the legal system. How should we give better play to the leading and promoting role of legislation? the report points out that we should strengthen legislative work in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related areas.

 

shen chunyao, chairman of the legislative affairs committee of the npc standing committee:This is an important direction and key area of the legislative revision work. It is in line with our comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the great cause of marching towards the second centenary goal. What needs to be strengthened, the people are concerned about, and the people are concerned. Key areas urgently needed in all aspects of work. Emerging fields are also changing with the rapid development of my country's economy and society, and there are many new fields that put forward legislative needs and legislative issues. The third is the foreign-related field. With my country's economic and social development and increasingly close foreign exchanges, the "Belt and Road" construction, foreign economic and trade investment, etc., have become more and more closely related. Therefore, legislation in the foreign-related field is what we need to focus on strengthening. direction.

 

The construction of a government under the rule of law is the key task and main project of the comprehensive rule of law. Only when the government takes the lead in administering and acting in accordance with the law can the country develop in an orderly manner on the track of the rule of law. The report pointed out that it is necessary to deepen the reform of the administrative law enforcement system, comprehensively promote strict, fair and civilized law enforcement, and increase law enforcement in key areas that have a bearing on the vital interests of the people. Administrative law enforcement procedures and improve administrative discretion benchmarks.

 

shen chunyao, chairman of the legislative affairs committee of the npc standing committee:The construction of a government under the rule of law is the key task or the main project of comprehensively governing the country according to law and building a socialist country under the rule of law. Because among the state organs at all levels, the government organs are the largest, the personnel are also the largest, and the various functions and powers and public powers exercised are also the most, so whether it can realize administration according to law and build a government ruled by law is of vital significance to the comprehensive rule of law and the construction of a socialist country ruled by law.

 

Justice is the last line of defense to safeguard social fairness and justice. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a number of historically formed cases have been corrected one after another. A series of top-level designs have been organized to weave a fair and just system and mechanism system. The post system reform has concentrated judicial forces on the front line of handling cases. The judicial responsibility system reform has realized "Let the judges judge and the judges are responsible", and the socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics is becoming more fair, efficient and authoritative. The report further emphasizes that we should deepen the comprehensive reform of the judicial system, comprehensively and accurately implement the judicial responsibility system, accelerate the construction of a fair, efficient and authoritative socialist judicial system, and strive to make the people feel fair and just in every judicial case.

 

he rong, deputy secretary of the party leading group of the supreme people's court and vice president in charge of daily work:The people's courts must continue to deepen the comprehensive supporting reform of the judicial system. On this issue, they must work hard to fully and accurately implement the judicial responsibility system, accelerate the construction of a new mechanism for the operation of judicial power that is scientific, reasonable, standardized and orderly, and consistent in powers and responsibilities, and strengthen judicial activities. Restriction and supervision, deepen the construction of smart courts, and comprehensively promote the modernization of the trial system and trial capabilities.

 

Taking the people as the center is the fundamental ruling idea of the party, which is embodied as "justice for the people" in judicial work ". Cui Gan, a representative of the 20th CPC National Congress and a judge from Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, has a deep understanding of this. In 2016, an 80-year-old man sued his son for not fulfilling his maintenance obligations. Although the trial passed, the son had already paid alimony and closed the case. However, Cui Gan found that there were still contradictions between mother and son. He came to mediate six times and finally resolved the contradiction.

 

Hunan Xiangtan County People's Court Criminal Division President Cui Gan:I think the court, as the smallest unit of the court, is also the unit closest to the people. We should make good use of the weapons guaranteed by the rule of law in the court and serve the people with more sincere feelings.

 

he rong, deputy secretary of the party leading group of the supreme people's court and vice president in charge of daily work:As a people's court, we will hear cases in the fields of education, medical care, elderly care, child care, and social security in accordance with the law. We will strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of women, children, the elderly and the disabled, improve the long-term mechanism for solving the difficulties in implementation, strengthen the substantive resolution of disputes, and provide solid services to promote common prosperity. At the same time, we will expand and deepen the achievements of the construction of the 'one-stop' diversified dispute resolution and litigation service system to ensure social fairness and justice and people's rights.

 

The rule of law society is the foundation of building a country ruled by law. How to ensure that all people believe in the rule of law and strictly enforce the rule of law is a long-term basic project. The report points out that we should carry forward the spirit of the socialist rule of law and guide all the people to be loyal advocates, conscious abides by and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law.

 

chen yixin, secretary general of the central political and legal commission:At present, the focus of comprehensively promoting the rule of law is to ensure the strict implementation of laws and to turn laws on paper into laws in action through law enforcement and justice. As an important functional department for law enforcement, political and legal organs should comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement, strengthen law enforcement in key areas related to the vital interests of the masses, and severely crack down on outstanding crimes in accordance with the law, so as to make urban and rural areas more peaceful and the masses more comfortable.

 

The prosperity of the rule of law leads to the prosperity of the country, while the decline of the rule of law leads to chaos. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that the rule of law must be better used to consolidate the fundamentals, stabilize expectations, and benefit the long-term guarantee, and comprehensively build a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law. The rule of law is a dynamic concept, which includes not only the formulation of laws, but also the implementation of laws, the supervision of laws and the belief of laws. It is the organic unity of legislation, law enforcement, justice and law-abiding. Only by comprehensively promoting scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice, and law-abiding by the whole people, closely weaving the network of laws, and strengthening the power of the rule of law, can the development of the cause of the party and the state have a fundamental and overall long-term institutional guarantee. to ensure that our society is both vigorous and orderly in the course of profound changes.