With the "Top Ten Cases", we will measure the solid pace of china's progress under the rule of law

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The progress of the rule of law depends not only on the top-level design of rammed foundations and pillars, but also on the intensive cultivation and accumulation of countless specific cases. As an important carrier for interpreting the spirit of the rule of law, typical cases often record the most critical details in the development and change of the times.

Recently, the Supreme People's Court and the Central Radio and Television Corporation released the top ten cases in 2021 to promote the process of rule of law in the new era. Lai Xiaomin's bribery, embezzlement, bigamy case, the first criminal case of infringing on the honor and honor of heroic martyrs, the murder of a passion fruit girl, the green peacock preventive protection public interest litigation case and other cases were selected as the "Top Ten Cases of the Year"; the case of the woman taking a courier was rumored to be derailed, the case of Wang Shujin intentional homicide and rape, and the case of the elderly stealing eggs and sudden death were selected as the "Top Ten Nomination Cases".

The number of netizens voted by this selection reached 120 million, and for the voting activities of rule of law cases with some professional thresholds, such a "top stream" fully demonstrates the public's high concern for the construction of the rule of law and the significant improvement of the level of rule of law culture in the whole society. This close interaction between the judicial organs and the masses of the people is itself a microcosm of the development and progress of the rule of law.

One case is better than a dozen documents. These 20 cases are selected from tens of millions of cases in courts across the country in 2021, selecting the best of the best and striving for excellence, which epitomizes the new atmosphere and new achievements in the judicial field in "serving the overall situation, serving the people, and fair justice" under the guidance of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought. These cases have profoundly embodied fairness and justice in the words of the judgment, and have given full play to the role of the rule of law as a guarantee for the fundamentals, stable expectations, and long-term benefits.

The rule of law has never been a stacked bed frame between legal concepts, but is closely embedded in social development and people's lives. Rather, the rule of law is a way of life. From the "Spicy Pen Ball" case, we condensed the national consensus of advocating heroes and defending heroes; from the first case of "face recognition", we established the principle of "legality, legitimacy and necessity" for personal information processing; from the first case of the application of the "self-willing risk" of the Civil Code, we felt the motherly protection of individual rights in the Civil Code... To tell the people the story of the rule of law in the new era, it is necessary to let the people have more trust in judicial adjudication, more sense of gain for rights protection, and more sense of participation in the construction of the rule of law through such specific cases and reasonable interpretations, so as to truly feel that fairness and justice are around.

The judgment is not the end of the case, but the starting point of the law to the hearts of the people. Every judgment with strength, right and wrong, and temperature will ripple in the depths of people's hearts, stir up a wave, give people a warning or encouragement, and help people correct the direction of action. The rush of countless waves has jointly promoted the tide of rule of law construction and bravely moved forward.