Central Political and Legal Committee： Realizing Historical Changes in the Field of Politics and Law in the New Era

　　CCTV News:On April 22nd, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Ten Years in China" to introduce the measures and effects of political and legal reform since the 18th CPC National Congress.

　　Jing Hanchao, deputy secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Committee, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core, the political and legal system has conscientiously studied and implemented the supreme leader’s thought of rule of law, adhered to the party’s absolute leadership over political and legal work, adhered to the people-centered, based on the national conditions, and made unprecedented determination and efforts to promote historic changes in the political and legal fields in the new era, accelerate the construction of a fair, efficient and authoritative socialist judicial system, and open up a new realm of "China’s rule".

　　Jing Hanchao focused on three aspects:

　　In the first aspect, the reform and reconstruction of power allocation and operation mechanism have significantly improved the credibility of law enforcement and justice.

　　First, strengthen the responsibility of handling cases from the power structure and management system. In order to solve the problem that everyone can handle a case, and the responsibility is unclear, the classified management of judicial personnel and the judicial responsibility system are implemented. As we all know, like doctors, nurses and administrators in hospitals, we divide the staff of court procuratorates into three categories: judges, prosecutors, judicial assistants and judicial administrators, and implement separate job sequences, classified management and perform their duties. A certain proportion of people with excellent political skills, high level of handling cases and outstanding performance are selected to serve as judges’ prosecutors, and the responsibility system for handling cases is implemented, which is "let the judges judge and the judges be responsible" and "whoever handles the case is responsible and who decides who is responsible", which greatly strengthens the responsibility of the case handlers.

　　The second is to establish and improve the supervision mechanism of law enforcement judicial power. In order to prevent the interference and influence of various relations on law enforcement and judicial activities, we should put power into the cage of the system, constantly improve the institutional mechanism for restricting supervision, improve the responsibility system, and "delegate power without letting it go." For example, strengthen the legal supervision of procuratorial organs, expand the scope of people’s jurors’ participation in trial cases, unblock the channels for people to participate in and supervise law enforcement and judicial activities, and disclose the basis, process and results of law enforcement and justice according to law, so that justice can be realized in a way that the people can see. A system has also been established to prevent interference with the judiciary, and all leading cadres and internal personnel of the judiciary who ask questions about cases are recorded, marked all the way, regularly notified and seriously held accountable.

　　The third is to reform the professional security of judicial personnel and the management system and system of human, financial and material. Establish a salary system that is compatible with the separate job sequence of judges and prosecutors, improve the protection mechanism for performing their duties according to law, and let judicial personnel do a good job with no distractions. According to local conditions, we will gradually implement the unified management of the establishment of courts and procuratorates below the provincial level, relevant personnel and property, prevent interference from local protectionism, and ensure that judicial organs exercise their functions and powers independently and impartially according to law.

　　The fourth is to reform the functions of political and legal institutions. The institutional functions of the Political and Legal Committee of the Party Committee were further optimized, and the Party’s absolute leadership over political and legal work was further strengthened. The Supreme People’s Court has set up a circuit court to solve disputes on the spot and facilitate mass litigation. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate has reformed its internal institutions and strengthened its full-time expertise. Establish the National Immigration Bureau to strengthen the management of immigration and entry and exit. Integrate the functions of the Ministry of Justice and the former the State Council Legislative Affairs Office, re-establish the Ministry of Justice, and optimize the institutional functional system of judicial administrative organs.

　　The second aspect is to further improve the litigation system and mechanism to achieve the unity of justice and efficiency at a higher level.

　　The first is to promote the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on trial. Clarify the basic evidence standards of criminal cases in investigation, prosecution and trial, so that the factual evidence of the case can stand the legal test. Give full play to the role of the trial, fact-finding in the court, cross-examination and debate in the court, conviction and sentencing in the court, and the verdict is formed in the court to ensure that the guilty are fairly punished and the innocent are not subject to criminal investigation.

　　The second is to carry out the reform of civil litigation simplification and diversion. According to different types of cases, different handling procedures are applied, and major cases are handled carefully and simple cases are handled quickly. Under the premise of protecting the litigation rights of the parties, ordinary simple cases enter the "fast lane", the overall handling quality and efficiency are significantly improved, the litigation cost is reduced, and the scientific allocation of judicial resources is realized.

　　The third is to establish a public interest litigation system. In view of the fact that some social public interests have been infringed and can not be protected in time, procuratorial organs have filed public interest lawsuits in the fields of ecological environment and resource protection, state-owned assets protection, food and drug safety, heroic and heroic protection, etc., to urge the restoration of ecology, punish counterfeiting, recover national losses and protect social public interests.

　　Fourth, vigorously build a new model of Internet justice. In recent years, we have closely followed the pace of the development of the Internet era and deeply integrated modern scientific and technological means with judicial activities. Filing, paying fees, hearing, investigation, delivery and various litigation services can be conducted online, and some parties can go to court with a mobile phone, which is very convenient. It can be said that China’s courts have explored a new way for the judicial model in the Internet age and contributed China wisdom and China’s plan to the world. On the issue of Internet justice, China is indeed at the forefront of the world, and it has also been recognized by peers in many countries around the world.

　　In the third aspect, the reform measures to facilitate the people and benefit the people have been continuously improved, and the people’s sense of gain, happiness and security has been significantly enhanced.

　　First, pay close attention to the "two ends" and vigorously promote the fundamental changes in the system and mechanism of filing and executing litigation procedures. Reform the filing review system and implement the filing registration system, making it easier for the people to go to court and making the "difficulty in filing a case" a thing of the past. Innovating civil execution system and mechanism, giving full play to political advantages, strengthening comprehensive management, strengthening information construction, forming a "national chess game" online command system, implementing a "blacklist" system, constantly improving the "one place is broken and everywhere is limited" joint credit punishment mechanism, promoting the construction of social credit system, promoting major changes in execution system and management methods, and forming the "China model" and China experience in international implementation of the rule of law.

　　Second, we will continue to carry out the action of "reducing certificates and facilitating the people", organize and clean up more than 13,000 "certification items", and effectively solve the problems of difficulty, slowness and complexity that the people have strongly reflected. We deepened the reform of the household registration system and issued more than 130 million residence permits. We deepened the reform of facilitating traffic control services and issued 110 million electronic driving licenses, benefiting more than 5 billion people.

　　The third is to formulate and implement the Legal Aid Law, expand the scope of legal aid, basically achieve full coverage of legal aid workstations in detention centers and people’s courts throughout the country, and effectively solve the problem that people in need can’t afford to fight lawsuits. A national judicial assistance system has been established, and in the past three years, the people’s courts have distributed a total of 2.95 billion yuan in assistance.

　　Fourth, accelerate the construction of a three-dimensional, information-based social security prevention and control system. The survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics shows that in 2021, the national people’s sense of security will reach 98.6%, and China has become recognized as one of the safest countries in the world.

　　Finally, Jing Hanchao said that after ten years of unremitting efforts, we can say that we have formed a series of original and symbolic reform achievements, and embarked on a road of political and legal reform in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, which has effectively promoted the high-quality development of political and legal work. We are well aware that ruling the country according to law in an all-round way is a huge systematic project, and the reform is always on the way. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, we should unswervingly adhere to the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s rule of law, conscientiously implement the Supreme Leader’s thought of rule of law, continue to redouble our efforts, and make new and greater contributions to the convening of the 20th Party Congress.