President sends sincere regards to nation's police officers on festive day President Xi Jinping is calling for solid progress in advancing the
high-quality development of political and legal work, which generally
refers to judicial, procuratorial and public security affairs. Greater efforts should be made this year to follow a more systematic
and law-based approach, and to focus on such work at the primary level,
according to an instruction issued by Xi, who is also general secretary
of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the
Central Military Commission. Guo Shengkun, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee and head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of
the CPC Central Committee, conveyed the instruction at a central
conference on judicial, procuratorial and public security work on
Saturday. Xi also sent sincere regards to all police officers, as Sunday was
the first Chinese People's Police Day. He called on them to take
concrete actions to better safeguard people's happiness, national
security and social stability. To promote the building of a peaceful China and provide a safer
environment for people, Guo said while addressing the conference,
political and legal departments nationwide should intensify efforts to
promptly resolve risks and effectively prevent them from rising. He highlighted the importance of improving the modernization of
social governance, ordering judicial, procuratorial and public security
agencies to strengthen the evaluation of risks and try their best to
curb major hidden contradictions at the start and at the grassroots
level. Guo asked officials to go to the front lines to understand the
demands of ordinary people, adding that conflicts-including those
regarding marriage, neighborhood or debts-could easily lead to public
security disorder and should be carefully examined and efficiently
resolved to keep disputes from getting worse and individuals from taking
extreme action. Guo called for a long-term mechanism to fight organized crime, noting
that the battle against offenses that often give rise to complaints
among the public-including drugs, gambling, fraud, food safety and
environmental crimes-should be increased. Regarding risks in new industries and those brought by new
technologies, Guo said, "We have to stick to the bottom line of safe
development." He called on the agencies to do more research on information
technologies and new businesses-such as livestreaming, online loans and
the sharing economy-and promote pertinent legislation and rules in order
to increase their ability to identify and control the risks as well as
to ensure internet enterprises and online platforms can develop in line
with the laws and regulations. "We should be highly vigilant against risks in the private equity,
online loans and long-term rental apartment industries, which have been
affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, boosting our coordination with
financial and supervisory institutes to guarantee people's personal and
property safety," he said. To meet people's new demand on the rule of law, Guo said more legal
support should be given to livelihood-related sectors. Public services,
including traffic management, household management and legal aid, should
also be improved, he added. He called for greater efforts to educate judicial talents in handling
foreign affairs and emphasized that corruption and discipline
violations in the legal and political agencies must be eliminated. Xi's instruction, with the requirements forwarded, was lauded among
those attending the conference. They took it as a clear direction for
their immediate work. He Hengyang, prosecutor-general of the Chongqing People's
Procuratorate, regarded Xi's instruction as a guideline for legal and
political departments in the new era, adding that the procuratorate will
focus more on work at the primary level, strengthening its supervision
and improving its work capacity. Dong Xiaofei, president of the people's court in Quxian county,
Sichuan province, said the court will play a bigger role in promoting
the modernization of social governance, improving the building of
technology-friendly courts and diversifying means to help residents
resolve disputes. Sun Andong, a police officer from Zhejiang province who was
encouraged by Xi's regards for the nation's first Chinese People's
Police Day, said, "I'll be careful and patient to better resolve every
dispute, trying my best to nip conflicts in the bud."
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