He is a member of the Central Office for Governing the Country in Accordance with The Law and deputy secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
Wang Hongxiang
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that "the broadest and deepest foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law is the people." "Adhering to the people-centered approach" is one of the important contents and eleven main aspects of Xi Jinping's rule of law thinking. We must fully understand its great significance and important position, profoundly understand and accurately grasp its core essence, scientific connotation and spiritual essence, and fully implement it in the practice of comprehensively ruling the country according to law.
First, fully understand the important position of "adhering to the people-centered" in Xi Jinping's rule of law thinking
Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law has a lofty position, a broad vision, rich connotations, profound thinking, strict logic, and complete system, and the "Eleven Persistences" is an organically unified, coordinated and connected system. In this system, adhering to the principle of "taking the people as the center" is in a very important position, which has a bearing on the purpose of our party to govern the country in accordance with the Constitution and laws, the nature and direction of comprehensively ruling the country according to law, the starting point and the foothold, and the key and core issue of the rule of law that is decided as an important basis for the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, "for whom and on whom to rely on", and is also a watershed between the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and the rule of law in Western capitalist countries. We must profoundly grasp its theoretical, historical, and practical logic, and enhance our consciousness of adhering to the people-centered thinking, politics, and action.
(1) Adhering to the people-centered approach epitomizes the distinct political attributes of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. There is a set of political theories behind every form of rule of law, a political logic in every rule of law model, and a political position under every rule of law path. Marx and Engels pointed out in the "Communist Manifesto" that "the movement of the proletariat is an independent movement of the overwhelming majority of the people and for the benefit of the overwhelming majority of the people"; always standing on the stand of the masses of the people is the basic stand of Marxism, and serving the people wholeheartedly is the fundamental purpose of our party as a Marxist political party, and it is also the goal for which our party has always struggled since its founding. Adhering to the people-centered approach shows the world the distinct political attributes of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and fully explains the essential requirements of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and its fundamental difference from the rule of law in Western capitalist countries. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law has also become a rule of law theory for the people with its firm people's stance and sincere feelings for the people, which is grounded, warm and popular with the people.
(2) Adhering to the people-centered approach epitomizes the profound historical wisdom contained in Xi Jinping's rule of law thought. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law was formed on the basis of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's outstanding legal culture. From "the people are the only state" and "the people are the best of the people", "if they win the country, they will lose the country," to "governing the country normally, and benefiting the people", which expounds the relationship between "the people" and "governing the country," to "every way to govern the country, we must first enrich the people," to "the people's hearts are like iron, the official law is like a furnace," "if you make mistakes, you will obey the people; if you make mistakes, the people will not obey," and so on, the "people-oriented concept" has always been an extremely important part of China's excellent traditional legal culture. "Adhering to the people-centered" epitomizes the summary, absorption and sublimation of this concept, and contains the great national spirit and profound historical wisdom condensed by China's five-thousand-year civilization, especially the civilization of rule of law.
(3) Adhering to the people-centered approach epitomizes the profound practical foundation accumulated by Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly pointed out that the people are the greatest strength of our party's ruling power and the solid foundation of our republic, and we must always put the people in the highest position in our hearts. Stressing that "the people's yearning for a better life is our goal of struggle" and "I will live up to the people without myself," it is required that our party and leading cadres at all levels must always adhere to the people's stand, adhere to the people's dominant position, always share the hearts and minds of the people, share weal and woe, unite in struggle, and really do solid work to relieve the people's worries, alleviate the people's grievances, and warm the people's hearts. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law is rooted in the great practice of upholding and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. From completing the revision of some parts of the Constitution and strengthening the construction of the people's mastery system, to compiling and promulgating the Civil Code and strengthening the protection of the people's rights in all aspects according to law; from deepening the comprehensive and coordinated development of economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights, to deepening the comprehensive reform of the judicial system to promote social fairness and justice; from accelerating the construction of the social security prevention and control system and protecting the people's personal rights and property rights and personality rights in accordance with the law, to adhering to the supremacy of the people and life, and implementing epidemic prevention and control and emergency measures in accordance with the law. To effectively protect the people's life, health and safety, etc., the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has always implemented the whole process of embodying the people's interests, reflecting the people's wishes, safeguarding the people's rights and interests, and improving the people's well-being in all fields of comprehensively governing the country according to law, so that the obvious advantages of China's national governance system and governance capabilities are fully demonstrated, and the achievements in the construction of the rule of law are more and more equitable to benefit all the people. "Adhering to the people-centered approach" is not only an inevitable requirement of the nature and purpose of our party, but also an important connotation and full embodiment of the advantages of Our country's system, and also a profound summary of our party's experience in governing the country since the founding of New China, especially since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, which embodies the high degree of organic unity of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law theory and practice, history and reality.
Second, comprehensively and accurately grasp the scientific connotation, spiritual essence and practical requirements of "adhering to the people-centered approach"
To study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and adhere to the people-centered approach, we must closely integrate abiding by the party's fundamental purpose and practicing the party's mass line with the practice of building a rule of law China, and unswervingly ensure that the rule of law is built for the people, relies on the people, benefits the people, and protects the people.
(1) Persisting in taking the people as the center is to fundamentally ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs. Law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class, which is made or approved by the state and guaranteed by the coercive power of the state. Our country is a socialist country under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants, and all the power of the state belongs to the people. To persist in taking the people as the center, we must always firmly grasp the organic unity of upholding the party's leadership, the people's mastery, and governing the country according to law, continuously develop socialist democratic politics and make it legal and institutionalized, uphold and improve the system of people's congresses, the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the system of regional autonomy for ethnic minorities, the system of autonomy for the masses at the grass-roots level, and other systems and systems in which the people are the masters of their own affairs, and ensure that the people are under the leadership of the party and in accordance with the provisions of the law. Through various channels and forms, we should manage state affairs, manage economic and cultural undertakings, and manage social affairs, so that the law and its implementation can fully reflect the will of the people.
(2) Persisting in putting the people at the center means that the protection of people's rights and interests should run through all aspects of the entire process of rule of law construction. The fundamental purpose of promoting comprehensive rule of law is to protect the people's rights and interests in accordance with the law. It is necessary to scrupulously abide by the concept of putting the people first and the rule of law for the people, actively respond to and continuously meet the new requirements and expectations of the people, systematically study, plan, and solve prominent problems that the people have strongly complained about in the field of rule of law, and implement the protection of the people's rights and interests according to law in all fields of the entire process of comprehensively ruling the country according to law. For example, in the field of legislation, it is necessary to expand the channels for citizens to participate in legislation in an orderly manner, improve the mechanism for soliciting public opinions on legislation, and ensure that each piece of legislation conforms to the spirit of the Constitution, reflects the will of the people, and is supported by the people; realize the legalization of the protection of citizens' rights, and improve the channels and methods of rights relief. In the field of law enforcement, it is necessary to punish all kinds of illegal acts according to law, increase the intensity of law enforcement in key areas that have a bearing on the vital interests of the masses, and strictly regulate fair and civilized law enforcement. In the judicial field, we must firmly guard the last line of defense of fairness and justice, give play to the role of protecting the lawful, sanctioning the lawless, and fixing points and stopping disputes, strengthen judicial safeguards for human rights, and absolutely not allow unfair trials to hurt the feelings of the masses and harm the interests of the masses.
(III) Adhering to the people-centered approach means making the rule of law the universal consensus and behavioral consciousness of the whole people. The authority of the law comes from the people's inner support and sincere belief. To persist in taking the people as the center, we must insist that the people are the main body and source of strength for comprehensively ruling the country according to law, fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the masses of the people to devote themselves to comprehensively ruling the country according to law, and truly make the law known and mastered by the people and applied. It is necessary to persistently regard the popularization of the law among the whole people and the observance of the law by the whole people as the basic work of governing the country according to law, cultivate a rule of law environment in which the whole society handles affairs according to law, finds the law when things go wrong, solves problems and uses the law, and relies on the law to resolve contradictions, so that the rule of law will become a social consensus and basic norm, and the entire people will become loyal advocates, conscientious observers, and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law.
Third, in political and legal work, we should implement the requirement of "persisting in taking the people as the center."
In the political and legal work to implement Xi Jinping Thought on the rule of law, adhere to the people-centered, the current focus should be on the implementation of the following five aspects of the implementation of various tasks.
(1) Focus on safeguarding the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people and safeguarding people's security in safeguarding national security. Safeguarding national security is the fundamental interest of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. As an important force in defending the party's leadership and the people's democratic dictatorship, the political and legal front must enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four self-confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards," unswervingly uphold the party's absolute leadership over political and legal work, and ensure that the knife handle is always in the hands of the party and the people. It is necessary to implement the overall concept of national security, make overall plans for development and security, strictly guard against and resolutely crack down on all kinds of infiltration and subversion, violent terror, ethnic separatism, and religious extremist activities, and unswervingly be the builders and defenders of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
(2) Focus on realizing the people's yearning for peace and happiness, and implement the principle of people first in the construction of a higher level of safe China. Peace is the first need of the people after they have solved the problem of food and clothing. To build a higher level of safe China, we must adhere to the principle of people first, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of protecting the safety of the masses and protecting the rights and interests of the masses. It is necessary to resolve the people's worries, crack down on illegal and criminal activities that infringe on the vital interests of the masses according to law, promote the normalization and institutionalization of the elimination of criminal syndicates and evil forces, and persistently and unswervingly crack down on criminal syndicates and evil forces and their protective umbrellas, so as to make urban and rural areas more peaceful and the masses more happy. It is necessary to unite the people's strength, adhere to the principle of combining special forces with the masses, and preventing and controlling the masses, and constantly improve the mechanism of co-construction, co-governance and sharing. It is necessary to respect the will of the people, take the people's satisfaction as the fundamental yardstick, improve the performance evaluation index system for safe construction, increase the weight of the masses' opinions, and truly hand over the "voting machine" of judgment to the masses.
(3) Focus on responding to the people's new expectations for fairness and justice, and enhance the credibility of law enforcement and justice in comprehensively deepening reform in the political and legal fields. It is necessary to deepen the comprehensive reform of the judicial responsibility system, improve and perfect the restraint and supervision system mechanism that is compatible with the operation of the judicial power in law enforcement, standardize and efficient, and let corruption have nowhere to hide. Strictly regulate commutation, parole, and temporary enforcement outside of prison, strictly implement the "three provisions" on preventing interference in the judiciary, improve the system of guaranteeing social fairness and justice under the rule of law, increase the credibility of law enforcement and justice, and strive to let the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.
(4) Focus on meeting the people's new needs for high-quality public services, and enhance service supply capacity in the process of promoting the modernization of social governance. The modernization of social governance is the support point of "China's governance". We must give full play to the role of the "frontline command" in the city and the "fighting fortress" at the grass-roots level, and strive to provide the people with inclusive and equal, convenient, efficient, intelligent and accurate public services. It is necessary to adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao experience" in the new era, earnestly do a good job in preventing and resolving contradictions and disputes, improve the preventive legal system and the mechanism of pluralistic dispute resolution, and promote more rule of law forces to guide and guide the end. It is necessary to serve the construction of a good business environment, accelerate the reform of the judicial supply side, improve the judicial protection system for property rights law enforcement, and comprehensively strengthen the judicial protection of intellectual property rights. It is necessary to optimize public public services for political science and law, make good use of modern science and technology, sum up and popularize the experience of "online office", "handheld office", "non-face-to-face office", and strive to provide more high-quality political and legal public products that benefit the people and facilitate the people.
(5) Focus on improving the satisfaction of the masses of the people, and strive to build a political and legal contingent that the party and the people can trust, rely on, and be assured. It is necessary to consolidate and expand the results of the pilot work, solidly carry out the work of educating and rectifying the contingent of political and legal personnel throughout the country, promote the comprehensive and strict management of the party and the police by the political and legal organs to develop in depth, truly integrate the requirements for party loyalty, service to the people, fairness in law enforcement, and strict discipline into the blood vein and implement them into action, resolutely perform well the missions and tasks entrusted by the party and the people in the new era, and work hard wholeheartedly to enhance the people's sense of happiness and security.
Source: Rule of Law Daily
Editor: Han Yuting Chang Yu Zhu Chanchan