Quanzhou has been working on local legislation for five years and has issued 8 local regulations and 1 regulatory decision

In five years, 8 local regulations and 1 regulatory decision were issued

Local legislation promotes the construction of rule of law in Quanzhou

Quanzhou Net, October 2 (Reporter Yan Yating) The five years since the 12th Party Congress of Quanzhou have been exactly five years since Quanzhou began local legislative work. Since exercising its local legislative power in July 2015, Quanzhou has formulated and promulgated 8 local regulations and 1 regulatory decision, realizing a new leap forward in local legislation from scratch and making positive contributions to the construction of a higher level of rule of law in Quanzhou.

Legislation is the primary link in the construction of the rule of law, and good law is the premise and foundation of good governance. The reporter learned from the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress that after obtaining local legislative power, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress formulated and promulgated the first local regulation of Quanzhou City, the "Legislative Regulations of the Quanzhou Municipal People's Congress and Its Standing Committee", to procedurally regulate the legislative activities of Quanzhou City.

In the past five years, in accordance with the principles of "necessary, distinctive, and really effective" and "urgent need to be established first", Quanzhou City has put the legislation on historical and cultural protection in the first place, and from point to line to surface, it has successively promulgated many laws and regulations such as the "Regulations on the Protection of Historical Sites on the Maritime Silk Road in Quanzhou City", the "Regulations on the Protection and Management of the Inner Ditch River in Quanzhou City", the "Regulations on the Protection of Arcade Buildings on Zhongshan Road in Quanzhou City", and the "Regulations on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in Quanzhou City", and gradually built up Quanzhou's unique system of laws and regulations for historical and cultural protection, providing a strong legal guarantee for historical and cultural protection.

At the same time, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress took the initiative to adapt to the needs of reform and development, focusing on urban and rural construction and management, and the ecological environment for legislation. In recent years, Quanzhou Has successively formulated the Regulations on the Protection of the Water Environment in the Luoyang River Basin of the Jinjiang River in Quanzhou City, the Regulations on the Management of Urban Appearance and Environmental Sanitation in Quanzhou City, the Decision of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Quanzhou City on the Coordinated Protection of the Water Ecological Environment in the Jiulong River Basin, and the Regulations on the Management of Motor Vehicle Parking in Quanzhou City, etc., to promote ecological protection, improve the living environment and enhance the quality of the city with high-quality legislation.

In order to promote the effective implementation of local regulations, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress places local legislation and supervision of the implementation of regulations in an equally important position. In April 2019, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress deliberated and adopted the Decision on Comprehensively Promoting the Integration of Local Regulations into Law Enforcement and Judicial Inclusion in the Work of Popularizing the Law, taking the lead in establishing a "three-entry" work mechanism for promoting the implementation of regulations in the province, and further clarifying the main responsibilities of administrative organs, adjudication organs, and procuratorial organs at all levels in the implementation of regulations. The General Office of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress forwarded the "three inputs" decision to the standing committees of the districted municipal people's congresses for reference and reference.

Party members look at the changes --

Guo Xinjie, head of the Licheng District Maritime Silk Historic Sites Protection Circuit Court:

Strengthen the judicial protection of cultural heritage

"Each of the 22 heritage sites, we have established a corresponding judicial protection file." At the Licheng District Maritime Silk Historic Preservation Circuit Court, there is such an archive room, which contains archival materials from 22 heritage sites in Quanzhou that are inscribed on the World Heritage List.

Quanzhou has a wealth of historical sites on the Sea Silk Road. In 2020, the Licheng Court used justice to help the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, and explored the establishment of the "Maritime Silk Road Historical Sites Protection Circuit Court" to focus on accepting criminal, civil, administrative and enforcement cases related to cultural heritage and cultural relics within a certain historical and cultural space.

"We actively use the Regulations on the Protection of Historical Sites of the Maritime Silk Road in Quanzhou City and the Regulations on the Protection of Arcade Buildings on Zhongshan Road in Quanzhou City to guide the trial of cases." Guo Xinjie, a member of the Communist Party of China and head of the Circuit Court for the Protection of The Historic Sites of the Hai Silk Road in Licheng District, told reporters that since the establishment of the Circuit Court, it has concentrated its trial forces and cultivated a professional trial team proficient in the laws and policies for the protection of cultural relics, and has also hired 12 experts with professional knowledge and background in the fields of Hai Silk History, Culture, and Cultural Heritage Protection to participate in the trial work. Up to now, the circuit court has successively accepted 28 cases involving historical and cultural buildings such as Su Tingyu's former residence and Chen Guangchun's former residence, as well as historical and cultural blocks.

Not long ago, the "Regulations on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in Quanzhou City" was passed in the second instance and will be submitted to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress for deliberation and approval. "From the first local regulations focusing on the protection of the historical sites of the Hai Silk Road, to the protection of the Neigou River, the Arcade Building on Zhongshan Road, and the famous historical and cultural cities, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress has carried out legislative work from points, lines and surfaces, and gradually built Quanzhou's unique historical and cultural protection legal system, providing us with more legal basis for the judicial protection of cultural heritage." Guo Xinjie introduced that the Licheng Court, as the legislative contact point of the Municipal People's Congress at the grass-roots level, promptly summarized the trial experience of cases involving cultural heritage and cultural relics resources, and actively put forward legislative suggestions to the Municipal People's Congress, so as to guide the judiciary with legislation and promote legislation with the judiciary. (Yan Yating)

Wu Xianglin, director of the People's Congress Working Committee of Lizhong Subdistrict, Licheng District:

Enhance the awareness of the protection of ancient cities for the whole people

"From resistance to understanding, from cooperation to active suggestions, old residents have consciously participated in the protection and improvement of Zhongshan Road." Lizhong Street is located in the core area of the old city, and Wu Xianglin, a member of the Communist Party of China who is the director of the working committee of the street people's congress, can intuitively feel the deep feelings of the residents of the ancient city for the ancient city.

In recent years, the city has orderly promoted the protection and upgrading of ancient cities. Since the launch of the first back street alley Goldfish Lane "space micro-transformation" project in 2017, the comprehensive upgrading project of the 240-meter demonstration section of Zhongshan Middle Road (Zhuangfu Lane - Tumen Street) was officially launched in 2018. "When our city formulates the "Regulations on the Protection of Arcade Buildings on Zhongshan Road in Quanzhou City", the legislation of the People's Congress and the government's protection work are synchronized in the same direction." In Wu Xianglin's view, the legislation on the protection of arcade buildings is timely and effective, and the unique problems of the protection of arcade buildings in Quanzhou are solved according to local conditions, "so that the protection of arcade buildings has laws to follow and rules to follow." Under the guidance of the regulations on the protection of arcade buildings, the comprehensive upgrading project of Zhongshan Middle Road was carried out in an orderly manner, and 29 comprehensive upgrading projects of the back streets and alleys of the ancient city were rolled out to implement "minimally invasive surgery" with embroidery efforts. "While repairing the old as old, it has improved the living environment of the residents of the ancient city, and the satisfaction of the masses is very high." Wu Xianglin said.

The people have called, and I have responded. In recent years, the Lizhong Subdistrict People's Congress Working Committee has started from grass-roots practice and put forward legislative suggestions and opinions for the formulation and promulgation of many regulations in our city. Not only that, the working committee of the street people's congress also organized the publicity and interpretation of the regulations on the arcade building, the regulations on the Neigou River, the city appearance and environmental sanitation regulations, and other regulations in conjunction with the activities of the people's congress deputies at the grass-roots level to perform their duties.

Not long ago, a symposium with the theme of "How to Better Protect the World Heritage" was held at the former residence of Su Tingyu in Lizhong Street. At the symposium, representatives of the district people's congress and representatives of the masses around the World Heritage Site spoke enthusiastically on the protection of ancient cities in the era of World Heritage. "With the gradual enhancement of citizens' awareness of the protection of ancient cities, nowadays, there are often people in the jurisdiction who take the initiative to exchange suggestions and suggestions on the protection and improvement of ancient cities." Wu Xianglin said. (Yan Yating)