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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 6 (Reporter Cui Qingxin) — On the 6th, Minister of Justice Wu Aiying said that efforts should be made to further strengthen the education and management of the lawyer corps, to do a solid job in guiding lawyers who represent sensitive cases and mass incidents, and to educate and guide the broad mass of lawyers to be politically minded, to take the bigger picture into account, to abide by discipline, and to faithfully perform the duties and mission of lawyers.
At the national meeting of directors of justice departments (bureaus) held here, Wu Aiying called for the active organization and guidance of lawyers, notaries, and other legal service personnel to further expand their service fields. According to reports, in just the first half of this year, legal aid cases nationwide totaled more than 270,000, up 22.6 percent year-on-year.
Wu Aiying said that China’s lawyer corps must adhere to the Party’s leadership, adhere to the Scientific Outlook on Development as the guide, and adhere to the essential attribute of legal workers with Chinese socialist characteristics, so as to ensure the correct political direction of lawyers’ work. It is necessary to improve the mechanisms for admission to practice, evaluation of practice status, and rewards and punishments in practice for lawyers, strengthen the protection of lawyers’ rights to practice, and further reform and improve the institutional mechanisms of lawyers’ work.
She stressed that it is necessary to further strengthen Party building in the legal profession. While making unremitting efforts to do a good job in building Party organizations in the legal profession, it is also necessary to further raise the level of Party-building work in the legal profession and strive to achieve full coverage of the Party’s work across the legal profession.
As of now, among the more than 14,000 law firms nationwide, 3,895 have independently established Party branches, and 2,692 Party branches have been jointly established in 8,075 law firms. For the 2,741 law firms with no Party members, instructors or liaisons have all been assigned, thereby achieving in advance full coverage of Party organizations and Party work across the legal profession.
////——Though it was, in a sense, only to be expected, I still felt a bit shocked… Is it really beyond saving…
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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