A few days ago, in the village committee of Moon Mountain Village, Jiuqian Town, Sandu Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, villagers Pan Mousan and Pan Mouxiang shook hands and made peace. Not long ago, the two almost got into a fight because of a dispute over forest land, but fortunately, Pan Fengshi, a "person who understands the law" in the village, intervened in time and the two sides reached a settlement.
The picture shows the training of "people who understand the law".
There are more than 1,500 "people who understand the law" like Pan Fengshi in Sandu Autonomous County, covering 8 townships (streets) and 105 villages (communities) in the county, with an average of more than 10 "people who understand the law" in each village (community). They are not only community secretaries, village cadres, grid members, and people's mediators with good legal literacy and certain legal knowledge, but also "explainers" of laws and regulations, "mediators" of contradictions and disputes, and "transmitters" of social conditions and public opinions, leading the masses to respect the law, learn the law, abide by the law, and use the law, and write a vivid story of grassroots social governance.
They have become the "worry solvers" around the masses
43-year-old Pan Fengshi, secretary of the general party branch and director of the village committee of Yueshan Village, Jiuqian Town, Sandu Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, actively took the lead in learning laws and regulations and researching mediation skills after he became a "person who understands the law" in the village through relevant training in the judicial system in 2022.
The picture shows Pan Fengshi, a "person who understands the law", mediating mountain and forest land disputes
"The blockage between our two families has been solved! It also unraveled our 'knots' for more than 20 years. Villagers Pan Mousan and Pan Mouxiang quarreled over a forest land dispute, so they found Pan Fengshi to "comment". Pan Fengshi learned that due to historical reasons, there is no clear ownership and issuance of certificates for the forest land in dispute between the two families, and there are special circumstances such as multiple names, multiple certificates, and unclear four settlements of the same plot, so he visited the local old village cadres, village elders, and people in neighboring villages to collect relevant evidence and materials and conduct several field surveys, and organized the two parties to mediate in a "back-to-back" manner after everything was ready, informed the two parties of the investigation results and issued mediation opinions and suggestions in accordance with relevant laws, and finally the 20-year-old grievances of the two families were finally resolved.
"When you encounter something, you must protect your rights and interests through legal channels, you can't mess around, you must believe in the law." Pan Fengshi often said this to everyone. In the hearts of the villagers, he is a legal expert who does practical things for the villagers, and when there are contradictions and disputes, they like to "hang" his "expert number".
There are more "understanding people" in the village, and there is less confusion before the law. "Since there are 'people who understand the law' in the village, everyone will ask them clearly and understand when they encounter problems, and the awareness of respecting the law, abiding by the law, learning the law, and using the law has become increasingly strong, and now there are fewer people who fight and make trouble, and the village customs have become more civilized." Wu Fangfu, a returning entrepreneur from Moon Village, said sincerely.
In recent years, there have been more and more "people who understand the law" like Pan Fengshi who are active in the rural areas of the water town, they are active in the fields, villages and alleys, and in the mediation of disputes, they transform the "French dialect" into the "local dialect", and use the "vernacular" to explain the "big truth", so that the villagers can really understand, learn and use; Investigate risks and hidden dangers in a timely manner, resolve contradictions, and keep small things out of the village and big things out of the town; Go into the village to understand the situation, collect the legal needs of the masses, and make grassroots governance more accurate.
"There are no major problems in rural contradictions and disputes, they are all small things, but sometimes the reason does not make sense, and they will give priority to finding village cadres, village sages and village elders, and old party members to mediate and resolve them, and train them to become 'people who understand the law', so that they can gradually become experts in rural governance." Liang Hui, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Judicial Bureau of Sandu Autonomous County, introduced that we will incorporate the cultivation of "people who understand the law" into the construction of rural areas under the rule of law and the overall planning of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for law popularization, as the key work of rural revitalization and people's livelihood projects in the county, 105 villages (communities) in the county have achieved full coverage of "people who understand the law", and "people who understand the law" have gradually become an important force in the county's grassroots law popularization publicity, legal services, dispute resolution, and rural governance.
They act as "insiders" of democratic self-government
Founded in June 2018, Xuehuahu Community in Zhonghe Town is one of the largest ex-situ poverty alleviation and resettlement areas in Sandu Autonomous County, with a total of 5,782 people from 1,112 households in 20 villages in the town, accounting for 99% of the aquarium population, and is a typical "non-acquaintance" community. Residents' demands and prominent contradictions and disputes have become the first priority in community service and governance, strengthening the community's concept of the rule of law, and guiding the community residents to learn the law, know the law, understand the law, and use the law, and become an important part of community work. With the help of judges, police officers, lawyers and other resources, the community has set up a team of "people who understand the law" composed of cadres of the two committees of the community, old party members, and old cadres, and integrated the forces of embroidery girls, building chiefs, grid members, and joint household chiefs, and in 2019, the first "people who understand the law" studio in Sandu Autonomous County was established in the Xuehuahu community.
The picture shows the scene of mediation of conflicts and disputes
"Our 'people who understand the law' studio has established a shift system, and community legal experts, legal advisers, and full-time people's mediators take turns to sit on shifts to 'ask for consultations', carry out lectures on the rule of law, and receive legal advice, etc., mainly so that the masses have a place to speak, reason, and make suggestions, and when they encounter various legal problems, they can find the law and rely on the law to 'have a way'." Wei Shizhao is one of the 10 "legal understanders" of the Xuehuahu Community Legal Understanders Studio.
At every meeting held in the community, Wei Shizhao will explain the legal knowledge to the community residents thoroughly, and patiently answer the residents' legal questions in marriage and family, house inheritance, labor disputes, etc. He also often discusses new models of community governance under the rule of law and rule of ethics with members of the community team, participates in the formulation and revision of community residents' conventions, and carries out the creation of rule of law positions.
Where the legal needs of the masses are, the service of "people who understand the law" is there. In recent years, all localities in Sandu Autonomous County have included "people who understand the law" in the "one appointment and four meetings" deliberation mechanism of villages, requiring village legal advisers and "people who understand the law" to participate in the formulation of the list of small and micro powers at the village level, the investigation and mediation of contradictions and disputes, and the signing of economic contracts for village cooperatives. They have gradually become the "think tank" of rural (community) grassroots self-government, and when they encounter law-related problems, they will come to them to "sum up", jointly promote the inclusion of village-level affairs in the track of law-based management, and improve the level of law-based management of village-level affairs.
"I don't understand what the implementation of the resolution announced at the entrance of the village means." Li Shihua, a grid member of Yaolu Village, Fengyu Street, and a "person who understands the law", always explains to the masses at the first time. In addition to the work of the grid member, she also undertakes the role of information collector, work coordinator, and legal lecturer for grassroots governance according to law, and actively carries out work around conflict resolution, legal consultation, and legal popularization and publicity, so as to further open up the "last meter" of serving the masses.
"Fortunately, Xiao Li and they told me about the law, so I didn't change the use of the land at will, otherwise it would be time-consuming and laborious, and I would have to face punishment." A villager in Yaolu Village thanked the "people who understand the law" for popularizing the law for him. In July last year, the villager wanted to build a chicken farm and was ready to hire an excavator to start work on his farmland. After Li Shihua learned of the incident, he immediately contacted the village's legal counsel to explain to the villager the provisions of the land management law and the consequences of violating it, and only then did he dispel the villager's idea of starting construction.
Nowadays, what should I do if I can't get paid? To apply for a homestead, who can understand the approval conditions? The problems encountered in the fields, in the countryside and in the neighborhood, in production and life, are easy for Li Shihua. Li Shihua said: "As a 'person who understands the law', he not only takes the lead in learning the law and abiding by the law, but also helps the villagers to use the rule of law thinking, resolve conflicts in accordance with the law, and make the rule of law the background color of rural development." ”
They strive to be the "leaders" of the new style of civilization
"Bigamy violates the Civil Code, arranged sales are not in the right way, it is not advisable to go from day to night, and it is an obligation to provide for the elderly and raise children." "The voice of the rule of law goes to the countryside, learn the law and use the law to be a good person, persuade people to be good and not learn bad, and a happy life will be passed on to ......all generations" "The law understands people" Wei Yingli sang vividly and interestingly in the "Embroidery Girl's Home" in the Xuehuahu Community of Zhonghe Town, the embroidery girls sat on the bench and listened to it with great interest, and the community residents will also sing songs like this to promote the rule of law and advocate civilization.
The picture shows Wei Yingli, a "person who understands the law", singing a water song of law popularization
"Wei Xianxian is not only an expert in conflict and dispute mediation, but also a qualified law popularizer." Pan De, a resident of Xuehuahu Community, is the "Wei Xianxian" in his mouth, which is the Secretary of the Party Branch and President of the Sandong Horsetail Embroidery Association in Zhonghe Town, Sandu Autonomous County, the inheritor of the provincial horsetail embroidery skills in Guizhou Province, and one of the "leading geese" of the "Legal Understanding Studio" and "Water Town Embroidery Mediation Room" in the Xuehuahu Community of Zhonghe Town. Over the years, Wei Yingli has been committed to popularizing the knowledge of the rule of law to the masses in an easy-to-understand way. She cares about the life of embroidery girls, strives to enhance the legal awareness of the community, actively mediates disputes for them, and is enthusiastic about promoting the construction of rural rule of law, which has won wide praise from everyone.
"Studying the law" and "understanding the law" are the prerequisites for "doing things according to law, finding the law when encountering problems, solving problems and using the law, and resolving contradictions by relying on the law". In the water town, many people love to sing but do not know much, the Sandu Autonomous County Judicial Bureau invited the local singers, with mountain songs as the carrier, the "Civil Code" and other legal content into the content of ethnic minority lyrics, in the form of folk songs in the traditional holiday activities of ethnic minorities to promote the "mountain song" popularization of law, through the embroidery of the girl singing, in the form of points and faces, the legal provisions, the rule of law consciousness, the spirit of the rule of law into the hearts of more water people, let the law of law sing the water town.
"Through the way of water song singing, you can understand the content of law popularization after listening to it once, and you can hum a few words after listening to it a few times, so that you are more interested in legal knowledge, so that the masses can really understand, remember, and use." Liang Hui introduced that in the past, when law popularization cadres carried out 'law into the villages', they often heard from the villagers that they would not understand what you said, but now there are 'people who understand the law' who are familiar with the language, which not only solves the dilemma that the masses cannot understand and the cadres cannot make sense, but also makes it convenient to collect the problems that the masses are concerned about at any time, and provide legal assistance to the villagers in need in a timely manner.
In addition, focusing on key areas and groups, the township (street) judicial offices in Sandu Autonomous County have carried out key training for people who are subject to community corrections, unemployed vagrants, and family conflicts and disputes, and use village (resident) legal advisers and "people who understand the law" to form a pair of learning and guidance with the training objects, so as to train them to become "people who understand the law", which not only effectively reduces the cost of social governance, but also transforms them into the backbone of the people's voices.
"When the masses can't figure out what to do, they look for 'people who understand the law'" and "popularize the law to educate you, me and him, and the construction of the rule of law depends on everyone...... Nowadays, on the advertising boards on both sides of the streets and residential roads in Sandu, all kinds of legal slogans, legal exhibition boards, anti-fraud cartoons, and legal banners can be seen everywhere. The good atmosphere of doing things according to the law, finding the law in case of trouble, solving problems and using the law, and resolving contradictions and relying on the law has become a common practice in the land of water towns.
(Source: Qiannan Chang'an Net)