◇ Important news
1. The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued the "Supplementary Provisions on the Enforcement of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China on the Determination of Crimes (8)": In accordance with the Criminal Law Amendment (12), the "crime of discounting shares at a low price and selling state-owned assets for personal gain" was adjusted to "the crime of discounting shares at a low price and selling company or enterprise assets for favoritism and malpractice", and the provisions came into force on March 1. (Procuratorate Daily)
2. Cyberspace Administration of China: 10,646 websites interviewed by cyberspace departments in 2023 In 2023, the national cyberspace system continued to promote online law enforcement supervision and inspection, investigated and dealt with all kinds of online violations of laws and regulations, interviewed a total of 10,646 websites throughout the year, ordered 453 websites to suspend functions or updates, removed 259 mobile applications, shut down 119 mini programs, and worked with the telecommunications authorities to cancel the license or filing of illegal websites. 14,624 illegal websites were closed, and relevant website platforms were urged to close 127878 accounts that violated laws and regulations in accordance with laws and agreements. (Rule of Law)
3. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other six departments are to deploy and strengthen one-stop mediation of labor disputes in new forms of employment: It is clarified that departments such as human resources and social security in areas where the platform economy is active and there are many labor disputes in new forms of employment shall strengthen cooperation, and increase joint mediation functions in the mediation center of the labor and personnel dispute arbitration court or in relevant mediation organizations according to actual conditions, and a one-stop mediation center may be established if conditions permit. (CNR)
4. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other seven departments issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Innovation and Development of Future Industries": It is proposed that by 2025, the mainland's future industrial technology innovation, industrial cultivation, and safety governance will develop in an all-round way, and some fields will reach the international advanced level, and the industrial scale will be steadily improved. We will build a number of future industry incubators and pilot areas, break through 100 cutting-edge key core technologies, form 100 landmark products, and initially form a future industrial development model in line with the actual situation of the mainland. (China Economic Net)
5. The Civil Aviation Administration of China issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Civil Aviation Prices during the Spring Festival Travel Period in 2024": all transport airlines should implement the requirements for clear price marking, and publish the tariff level and applicable conditions in a timely, accurate and comprehensive manner. They must not collude with each other to manipulate market prices; they must not fabricate or disseminate information on price increases, raise prices, or push prices to rise excessively; and they must not dump at prices lower than cost. (Huanqiu.com)
◇ National Hot List
1. Announcement of consumer complaint hotspots in 2023: In 2023, the National Consumer Association will accept a total of 1328496 consumer complaints, a year-on-year increase of 15.33%, resolve 1127440 cases, and have a complaint resolution rate of 84.87%, recovering 1.37 billion yuan of economic losses for consumers. In terms of specific commodity complaints, the top five complaints are: food, clothing, communication products, automobiles and parts, and cosmetics. Among the specific service complaints, the top five complaints are: business Internet services, catering services, training services, accommodation services, and beauty salons. (China News Network)
2. During the Spring Festival, some trains departing from Xiamen added "walking baby cabins": on January 29, on the G1654 high-speed train from Xiamen to Shanghai, a group of young passengers played interesting games under the leadership of the attendants, and the whole carriage was immersed in the laughter of children. Part of the No. 9 dining car of this high-speed rail train was temporarily transformed into a "walking baby cabin". Young travellers can participate in fun games, borrow children's toys or read storybooks accompanied by their parents. It is reported that during the Spring Festival this year, some 16-car "long marshalling" high-speed rail trains from Xiamen to Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other directions opened a "walking baby cabin" for families with babies. (Xinhua News Agency)
3. The Spring Festival is approaching, and these social security card scams should be vigilant: The Spring Festival is approaching, and the fraud tricks of fraudsters are constantly being renovated, and various new "traps" are emerging one after another. We must be vigilant against these social security card scams: providing personal information if the social security card is problematic, or impersonating the official website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security to induce you to click on fraudulent links. If you fill in your name, ID number, bank card number and other information according to the prompts on the fraudulent website page, it may lead to the theft of your social security card. (Justice.com)
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4. Don't hesitate! The people's auxiliary police caught the 90-year-old man who fell from the building with his bare hands: Recently, a 90-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease in Chuzhou, Anhui Province, sat by the window on the third floor, and was in danger of falling down at any time. When the police arrived at the scene to prepare for rescue, the old man suddenly fell, and the policeman Li Lei and the auxiliary police officer Chen Hongshuo didn't have time to think, so they immediately stepped forward and opened their arms to pick it up with their bare hands, using their bodies to slow down the impact of the old man's fall. In the end, the old man was not in danger of life, and Li Lei and Chen Hongshuo suffered multiple soft tissue contusions on their bodies. (People's Daily Online)
5 Wang Minghui sentenced to 16 years in prison in the first instance: On January 31, the Intermediate People's Court of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, publicly pronounced the first-instance verdict on the case of Wang Minghui, former deputy secretary and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, for accepting bribes and abusing his power. After trial, the court found that from 1998 to 2021, the defendant Wang Minghui took advantage of his position to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals, and illegally accepted property totaling more than 52.13 million yuan. The court held that Wang Minghui's conduct constituted the crime of accepting bribes and abusing power, and sentenced Wang Minghui to 13 years imprisonment and a fine of 5 million yuan for the crime of accepting bribes, and sentenced him to six years' imprisonment for the crime of abusing his power, and decided to enforce the sentence of 16 years imprisonment and a fine of 5 million yuan. (Rule of Law Daily)
6. The woman fabricated that she was subjected to domestic violence for the sake of eyeballs: Recently, the Wenshan Internet Police in Yunnan Province received a report from netizens that some netizens posted a fake video of domestic violence on the short video platform. The Wenshan police summoned the person who posted the video to the public security organ for investigation in accordance with the law. Upon inquiry, the woman Li fabricated a copy for the sake of eyeballs, fabricated pictures of herself falling and being injured as domestic violence, and posted it on the online platform. After the police popularized the law, Li deeply realized his wrong behavior, and in order to eliminate the impact, he took the initiative to release a clarification video, saying that he would not publish false remarks and spread false information on the Internet in the future, and warned the people around him to take warning. (Wuhan Morning News)
7. Man sentenced to 10 months in prison for sabotaging military marriage: China Court Network recently announced a case. In March 2022, Ma met his former colleague Yuan, and the two met for dinner together and had a relationship after drinking. That night, Yuan told Ma that he had married a soldier two years ago, but Ma didn't take it to heart, and met Yuan many times after that, and called each other boyfriend and girlfriend, and the two openly lived together in Ma's house, and then Yuan filed for divorce from her husband Li. Li, who was serving in the army, was suspicious of this, and called the police after calling the community monitoring to find the hidden situation. Afterwards, Ma was arrested and truthfully confessed the facts of his crime of sabotaging the military marriage. After hearing the case in accordance with the law, the Dunhua Municipal Court of Jilin Province sentenced Ma to 10 months in prison. (Headliners)
◇ Rule of law in Shijiazhuang
Multiple departments at the railway station to protect your way home for the Spring Festival
A period of 40 days of Spring Festival today into the seventh day, in order to do a good job in the station area in front of the Spring Festival to ensure the stability and orderliness of the station area during the Spring Festival, Shijiazhuang Railway Station Station Area Management Committee and the city's public security, traffic police, urban management, traffic law enforcement, garden and other station departments to work together to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of the city's stations during the Spring Festival. In order to create a good environment in front of the station, highlight the key points of the Spring Festival transportation support work, smooth road traffic, ensure public security and stability, standardize the order of passenger transport, and establish a good window image of the railway station, all departments of the Spring Festival transportation guarantee work in the station area perform their duties. (People's livelihood concerns)
◇ The most beautiful provincial capital
The first special loan for urban village renovation landed in Shijiazhuang, and 17 urban village projects received special loan credit of 40.523 billion yuan
Source: Shijiazhuang Law Popularization and Media Publicity Center