Xi Jinping: Comprehensively Improve Law-Based Prevention and Control and Law-Based Governance Capacity, Provide Strong Legal Safeguards for Epidemic Prevention and Control

Xi Jinpingpresided over the third meeting of the Commission for Law-based Governance under the CPC Central Committee and stressed

comprehensively improving the capacity for law-based prevention and control and law-based governance

providing strong legal safeguards for epidemic prevention and control

Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, and Wang Huning attended

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 5 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Director of the Commission for Law-based Governance under the CPC Central CommitteeXi Jinpingpresided over the third meeting of the Commission for Law-based Governance under the CPC Central Committee on the afternoon of February 5 and delivered an important speech. He stressed that under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, we must always put the safety and health of the people first, make efforts in all links of legislation, law enforcement, the judiciary, and law observance, comprehensively improve the capacity for law-based prevention and control and law-based governance, and provide strong legal safeguards for epidemic prevention and control work.

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Director of the Commission for Law-based Governance under the CPC Central Committee Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, and Wang Huning attended the meeting.

The meeting reviewed and approved the "Opinions of the Commission for Law-based Governance under the CPC Central Committee on Law-based Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic and Effectively Safeguarding the People's Life and Health Safety," the "Opinions on Deepening the Comprehensive Supporting Reform of the Judicial Responsibility System," the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Law-based Villages," the "Plan for Reforming the Administrative Reconsideration System," and the report on the situation of Shanghai's advancement of building a law-based business environment and the report on the situation of advancing the reform of the comprehensive administrative law enforcement system.

Xi Jinpingemphasized in his speech that at present, epidemic prevention and control is at a critical stage, and law-based, scientific, and orderly prevention and control is crucial. The more epidemic prevention and control reaches the most strenuous moment, the more we must adhere to law-based prevention and control, coordinate and advance all prevention and control work on the track of the rule of law, and ensure the smooth development of epidemic prevention and control work.

Xi Jinpingpointed out that it is necessary to improve legislation related to epidemic prevention and control, strengthen the construction of supporting systems, improve penalty procedures, strengthen public security safeguards, and build a systematically complete, scientifically standardized, and effectively operating legal system for epidemic prevention and control. It is necessary to strictly implement laws and regulations on epidemic prevention and control and emergency handling, strengthen risk assessment, make decisions prudently in accordance with the law, strictly implement prevention and control measures in accordance with the law, and resolutely prevent the spread of the epidemic. It is necessary to increase the intensity of law enforcement and judicial efforts against acts that endanger epidemic prevention and control, strictly implement the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and its implementing regulations, the Wildlife Protection Law, the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law, the Regulations on the Urgent Handling of Public Health Emergencies, and other laws and regulations, and implement epidemic prevention and control and emergency handling measures in accordance with the law. It is necessary to strengthen law enforcement work such as public security management and market regulation, increase the intensity of cracking down on illegal acts of violent injury to medical personnel, strictly investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal acts of driving up prices of epidemic prevention supplies and daily necessities, and severely crack down in accordance with the law on illegal and criminal acts that disrupt epidemic prevention and control, such as resisting epidemic prevention and control, violent attacks on doctors, producing and selling fake and inferior goods, and spreading rumors, so as to ensure social stability and order. It is necessary to regulate donation and acceptance acts in accordance with the law and ensure that all donated property is used in a timely manner for epidemic prevention and control. It is necessary to do a good job in epidemic reporting and release in accordance with the law and report epidemic information promptly and accurately in accordance with statutory content, procedures, methods, and time limits. It is necessary to strengthen guidance for the trial of related cases, handle them promptly, and settle disputes and stop conflicts. It is necessary to strengthen publicity of the rule of law and legal services for epidemic prevention and control, organize grassroots efforts to carry out legal publicity for epidemic prevention and control, guide the broad masses to enhance their awareness of the rule of law, and support and cooperate with epidemic prevention and control work in accordance with the law. It is necessary to strengthen legal services for epidemic prevention and control, strengthen the resolution of contradictions and disputes during the epidemic period, and provide effective legal aid to people in difficulty.

Xi Jinpingemphasized that Party committees and governments at all levels must fully perform their duties in accordance with the law, persist in using law-based thinking and law-based methods to carry out epidemic prevention and control work, advance the construction of a law-based government in handling major emergencies, and improve the level of law-based governance and law-based administration. Relevant departments must clarify the division of responsibilities, actively and proactively perform their duties, ensure the implementation of tasks, improve the level of law-based epidemic prevention and control, and effectively safeguard the people's life, health, and safety.

The meeting pointed out that the comprehensive supporting reform of the judicial responsibility system is an important part of judicial system reform and concerns judicial fairness, efficiency, and authority. It is necessary to ensure that reform tasks are implemented and effective, truly "let the adjudicator adjudicate and the judge be responsible," improve judicial credibility, and strive to let the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case. Strengthening the construction of law-based villages is a foundational task for implementing the rural revitalization strategy and advancing comprehensive law-based governance. It is necessary to educate and guide the broad rural cadres and masses to handle affairs in accordance with the law, look for law when encountering problems, use law to solve problems, and rely on law to resolve contradictions, and actively advance the construction of law-based villages. It is necessary to implement the plan for reforming the administrative reconsideration system, optimize the allocation of administrative reconsideration resources, advance the revision of relevant laws and regulations, and give play to the institutional advantages of administrative reconsideration in being fair, efficient, convenient, and for the people and its role as the main channel for resolving administrative disputes.

The meeting emphasized that adhering to comprehensive law-based governance is a significant advantage of the socialist national system and national governance system with Chinese characteristics. For every step forward in the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the construction of the rule of law must follow one step further. The socialist rule of law in our country embodies the theoretical achievements and practical experience of our Party in governing the country and is the most basic, stable, and reliable guarantee of governance by system. It is necessary to advance comprehensive law-based governance, give play to the positive role of the rule of law in the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, improve the Party's capacity for law-based governance and law-based administration, use the rule of law to safeguard the people's position as masters of the country, uphold and improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, better give play to the leading, regulating, and safeguarding role of the rule of law in reform, development, and stability, build a high-quality legal work team, and gradually realize the institutionalization, proceduralization, standardization, and legalization of national governance. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of top-level design and law-based practice, improve the systems and mechanisms for ensuring the full implementation of the Constitution, strengthen supervision over the implementation of laws, improve the legal safeguard system for social fairness and justice, and enhance the effectiveness of the rule of law in promoting the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity. Leading cadres at all levels must strengthen their awareness of the rule of law, take the lead in respecting the law, studying the law, observing the law, and using the law, and be examples in implementing systems. It is necessary to increase the intensity of law popularization for all people, carry forward the spirit of socialist rule of law, enhance the people's concept of the rule of law, improve the public legal service system, and consolidate the social foundation for law-based governance. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of law-based governance and virtue-based governance, integrate the core socialist values into the construction of the rule of law, and strive to form good social customs and social order. It is necessary to strengthen cooperation in the field of international rule of law, accelerate the construction of the legal system for the extraterritorial application of our country's laws, strengthen research on and application of international law, and improve the level of law-based handling of foreign-related work.

Members of the Commission for Law-based Governance under the CPC Central Committee attended the meeting, and responsible comrades of relevant departments of central and state organs attended as non-voting participants