The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Strengthening Legal Education and Legal Theoretical Research in the New Era

Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Legal Education and Legal Theoretical Research in the New Era" and issued a notice requesting all regions and departments to earnestly implement it in light of actual conditions.
The full text of the Opinions on Strengthening Legal Education and Legal Theory Research in the New Era is as follows.
Legal education and legal theoretical research undertake the glorious mission of cultivating high-quality legal talents and providing scientific theoretical support for the construction of the rule of law in China, and play an important role in promoting the comprehensive rule of law. In order to strengthen legal education and legal theory research in the new era, the following opinions are put forward.

　　General 1. requirements
(I) guiding ideology. Adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, earnestly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the rule of law, carry forward the great party building spirit, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", and strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve the "two safeguards", and unswervingly follow the socialist rule of the rule of the rule of law, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, improve the quality of training talents under the rule of law, strengthen the theoretical research on the rule of law of socialism with Chinese characteristics, improve the ability and level of legal research, and accelerate the construction of a legal discipline system, academic system, and discourse system with Chinese characteristics., Building a socialist country under the rule of law, and promoting the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law provide strong talent guarantee and theoretical support.
(II) working principles. Adhere to and strengthen the party's overall leadership to ensure that legal education and legal theoretical research always advance in the correct political direction. Persist in focusing on the center and serving the overall situation, and plan and advance legal education and legal theoretical research in the overall situation of the party and the country. Persist in establishing morality and cultivating people, practicing both morality and law, and strive to cultivate more legal talents with firm ideals and beliefs, strong family and country feelings, and a solid legal foundation. Adhere to the law of the development of law disciplines and the law of talent growth, classification of construction and management of law schools. We should adhere to the combination of Marxist theory of the rule of law with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional legal culture, summarize the practical law of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, draw on the beneficial achievements of world rule of law civilization, and promote the high-quality development of legal education and legal theoretical research.
(III) the main objectives. By 2025, the regional layout of law colleges and universities will be more balanced with the layout of disciplines and specialties, the guidance system of legal education management will be more perfect, the quality of personnel training will be steadily improved, and the shortcomings of talents in key areas will be accelerated. The research field of legal theory will continue to expand, and the research ability will continue to improve. Basic theoretical research and applied countermeasure research will become more prosperous, and the theoretical research on the rule of law of socialism with Chinese characteristics will further innovate and develop. By 2035, in line with the basic establishment of a country under the rule of law, a government under the rule of law and a society under the rule of law, a number of world-class law schools with Chinese characteristics will be built, and a number of legal experts and scholars with international influence will be brought up. we will continue to train a large number of high-quality legal talents with both political integrity and ability, and build a legal discipline system, academic system and discourse system with distinctive Chinese characteristics, form a legal education system and a legal theory research system with scientific content, reasonable structure, complete system, coordination and high efficiency.

　　2. adhere to the correct political direction
(IV) adhere to Xi Jinping's rule of law as the fundamental follow. In-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law, insist on using Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law to occupy the positions of legal education and legal theoretical research in all aspects, and educate and guide the teachers and students of law schools and legal theory workers to be firm believers, active disseminators, and models of Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law Practitioner. Give full play to the role of the Xi Jinping Rule of Law Thought Research Center (Institute) and the theoretical research institution of the rule of law work department, in-depth study and interpretation of the major original contributions of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought, and continuously enrich and develop the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. We will further promote the physical and chemical interpretation, academic expression and systematic construction of Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, and promote the transformation of theoretical research results into curriculum system, teaching material system and teaching system. Coordinate and integrate research forces and resources, actively launch high-quality research results, and fully demonstrate the distinctive Chinese characteristics, practical characteristics, and era characteristics of Xi Jinping's rule of law. We will comprehensively promote Xi Jinping's rule of law thought into teaching materials, classrooms and minds, offer core compulsory courses for law majors in Xi Jinping's rule of law thought, encourage qualified institutions of higher learning to offer relevant compulsory and elective courses, jointly offer courses related to the rule of law practice of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought with the rule of law work department, create a special curriculum module for Xi Jinping's rule of law thought, and carry out Xi Jinping's rule of law thought education for all students. Strengthen the teacher training of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought. Make good use of "Xi Jinping's Rule of Law Thought Learning Outline", "Xi Jinping's Rule of Law Thought Learning Questions and Answers", "The Communist Party of China's Hundred Years of Rule of Law" and other reading materials.
(V) uphold and strengthen the party's overall leadership. Firmly grasp the party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee of the socialist rule of law, fully implement the party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, guide the teachers and students of law schools and legal theorists to consciously strengthen the party's sense of leadership, and improve the party's leadership law The system and mechanism of education and legal theory research implement the party's leadership in all aspects of the whole process of legal education and legal theory research. We will unswervingly follow the road of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the organic unity of the leadership of the party, the people being the masters of the country, and governing the country according to law. We will guide the teachers and students of law schools and legal theorists to take a clear-cut and firm stand in the face of issues of principle and major right and wrong, and resolutely oppose and resist the erroneous views of Western "constitutionalism", "three powers" and "judicial independence. Fully implement the party's education policy, insist on educating people for the party and the country, and strive to cultivate builders and successors of the socialist rule of law. Persist in using the party's innovative theory to lead the research of legal theory, in-depth study and grasp the century-old glorious course and historical experience of the party's leadership in the construction of the rule of law, and educate and guide the majority of legal theory workers to strive to be advocates of advanced ideas, pioneers of academic research, and social trends. Leader and firm supporter of the party's governance. The party organizations of law colleges and scientific research institutes must strictly implement the main responsibility of managing the party and governing the party, and earnestly control the direction, manage the position, and build a good team.
(VI) strengthen ideological and political construction. We should take stressing politics as the fundamental requirement, educate and guide the majority of law teachers and theoretical workers to improve their political acumen and political discrimination, strictly abide by political discipline and political rules, and run political standards and requirements through legal education and legal theoretical research. We should integrate ideological and political work into the whole process of legal education and teaching, strengthen the education of ideals and beliefs and socialist core values, strengthen the education of patriotism, collectivism and socialism, further promote the ideological and political construction of law professional courses, and integrate ideological and political education into the curriculum, classroom teaching, teaching material construction, teaching staff construction, theoretical research and other aspects of personnel training, educate and guide the majority of teachers and students to be loyal advocates, conscious abides by, and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law. Deeply grasp the political nature of legal theoretical research in the new era, consciously carry out research on major theoretical and practical issues such as building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, building a socialist country ruled by law, and comprehensively promoting the rule of law in all aspects of national work, and building a strong Marxist theory of the rule of law position.

　　3. Reform and Perfecting the System of Law Schools
(VII) optimize the development layout of law schools. Based on serving the overall situation of national development and adapting to the needs of regional legal talents, adjust and optimize the regional layout of law colleges, coordinate the establishment of national law disciplines and degree authorization points, and promote the balanced development of legal education regions. We will improve the access system for legal education, improve the early warning mechanism for the quality of law-related disciplines and majors, and smooth and orderly exit mechanisms for colleges and universities with insufficient conditions for running schools, persistently low levels of teachers, and poor quality of education. Establish a legal education quality evaluation system, improve the evaluation index system, and on the basis of the existing law discipline evaluation work, carry out the evaluation of law undergraduate education and teaching in colleges and universities as planned, and optimize the professional layout of law disciplines through measures such as rectification and cancellation within a time limit. Accelerate the construction of "double first-class", encourage law schools to highlight their characteristics and form a differentiated development pattern. Actively support the development of law schools in the western region, further optimize the layout of law degree authorization points, increase policy preference in terms of enrollment scale, teachers, funding, employment, etc., carry out national legal education east-west counterpart support, and realize the rational allocation of legal education resources.
(VIII) improve the management and guidance system of law schools. We will improve the management system of legal education, strengthen the macro guidance of the central office of governing the country according to law on the work of legal education, and strengthen the guidance of the competent education department and judicial administrative department of the State Council on the work of legal education in institutions of higher learning. Promote the reform and development of law colleges and universities, and give full play to the key political and law colleges and universities in legal education and legal theoretical research. The legal work department should increase its support for law schools, actively provide high-quality practical teaching resources, and do a good job in the organic connection between the legal profession and legal education. Give full play to the role of expert committees such as the Teaching Steering Committee of Law Majors in Colleges and Universities, the Law Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, the National Legal Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee, and the National Judicial Vocational Education and Teaching Steering Committee, and increase the proportion of members with practical experience in the rule of law, and optimize The composition of personnel will improve the level of legal education guidance and management.

　　4. Speeds Up the Improvement of Legal Education System
(IX) optimize the discipline system of law. We will improve the professional system of law disciplines and build a new mechanism for the construction of disciplines and specialties that combines independent settings and guidance settings. Based on China's reality, we will promote the renewal of basic disciplines such as jurisprudence and legal history, as well as constitutional law and administrative law, criminal law, civil and commercial law, procedural law, economic law, environmental and resource protection law, international law, and military law, so as to better integrate into the practice of comprehensively governing the country according to law. To adapt to the new requirements of the construction of the rule of law, strengthen the construction of disciplines such as legislation, cultural law, educational law, national security law, and inter-regional law, and accelerate the development of emerging disciplines such as social governance law, science and technology law, digital law, climate law, and marine law. Adhere to the organic unity of governing the country according to law and governing the party according to regulations, and strengthen the discipline construction of discipline inspection and supervision and inner-party laws and regulations. Promote the cross-integration of law and economics, sociology, political science, psychology, statistics, management, anthropology, network engineering, and natural sciences, and cultivate high-quality compound legal talents. We will improve the professional setting of relevant disciplines of foreign-related law, support institutions of higher learning that can carry out independent examination of degree authorization to set up first-level disciplines or master's degree categories related to international law in accordance with the procedures, support institutions of higher learning that have doctoral degree authorization points in first-level disciplines of law to set up second-level disciplines related to international law independently in accordance with the procedures, and speed up the training of foreign-related legal talents with an international vision.
(X) and improve the teaching system of law. Pay attention to the cultivation of ideological and moral literacy, combine social practice, actively carry out ideal and belief education, Chinese excellent traditional legal culture education, vigorously promote the socialist spirit of the rule of law, improve the legal professional ethics and professional ethics education mechanism, and cultivate students to advocate the rule of law, defend justice, and abide by conscience Professional character. Adapt to the needs of multi-level and multi-field legal talents, support the development of legal vocational education, consolidate legal undergraduate education, and improve legal postgraduate education. We will improve the basic requirements for doctoral and master's degrees in first-level disciplines of law, the basic requirements for legal professional degrees, and the national standards for the teaching quality of law undergraduate majors. Updating the teaching standards for law-related professions in vocational education. With the support of the rule of law work department, establish a linkage mechanism between law professional degree graduate education and legal professional qualifications, study and explore the reform of the entrance examination for law professional degree graduate students, and carry out the pilot work of training quality certification for law professional degree graduate training units to improve the quality of training. Update and improve the curriculum system of law majors, and promote the construction of theoretical teaching courses and practical teaching courses for law majors. Adapt to the new form of "Internet education" and new requirements, innovative education and teaching methods. Strengthen law practice teaching, deepen collaborative education, and promote the in-depth connection between law schools and legal work departments in the formulation of talent training programs, curriculum construction, teaching material construction, and student internship training. Establish a system of internship training for law majors such as legal work departments and legal service institutions, explore law majors to serve as assistant judges and prosecutors, and actively broaden the channels for law majors to practice in international organizations. Construction of a number of off-campus law practice teaching base. According to the actual needs of ethnic areas, we should cultivate legal talents who not only master the common spoken and written languages of the country, but also understand the spoken and written languages of ethnic minorities.
(11) Improve the teaching material system of law. Adhere to Xi Jinping's thought of the rule of law as the command, through grasping the core teaching materials, compiling the main teaching materials, developing new forms of teaching materials, etc., to build a legal teaching material system with Chinese characteristics. Make good use of textbooks such as "Introduction to Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law", consolidate the core position of the key textbooks of Marxist theoretical research and construction projects in the legal textbook system, organize timely updates and revisions, and expand the key textbooks of Marxist theoretical research and construction projects in law The coverage of construction enhances influence. Promote the construction of a series of textbooks on Chinese law to fully reflect the achievements in the development of a comprehensive rule of law. Strictly enforce the qualifications of law textbook writers, strengthen the classification and examination of textbooks, and ensure that they are politically and academically closed.
(12) Strengthen the construction of law teachers. Highlight political standards, implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, promote the reform of the construction of the team of law teachers, and build a team of high-level full-time and part-time teachers with a firm political stand, a deep legal foundation, familiar with China's national conditions, and familiar with international rules. Insist that educators receive education first, and regard teacher ethics and style as the first criterion for evaluating the quality of teachers, as the primary requirement for teacher recruitment and introduction, professional title review, post employment, mentor selection, evaluation and reward, appointment period assessment, project application, etc. Strengthen daily education management supervision, strengthen ideological and political quality inspection, strengthen rule of law and discipline education, and educate and guide the majority of law teachers to strive to become good teachers of the "Four Haves. We should establish and improve the assessment system for law teachers with the performance of teaching and scientific research as the main orientation, improve the score weight of law teachers' teaching performance and teaching research in various evaluation and evaluation, establish a teacher evaluation and title promotion system in line with the characteristics of law disciplines, strive to eliminate the tendency of only scoring, only promotion, only diploma, only thesis and only hat, carry forward the "cold bench spirit", and encourage and guide law teachers to concentrate on their studies and teach and educate people. We will promote two-way exchanges between law schools, scientific research institutes and legal departments, increase the efforts of law teachers, researchers and legal department staff in institutions of higher learning to take up posts in legal departments, and explore the establishment of outstanding practical experts from the rule of law departments to teach in colleges and universities and to carry out research in think tanks on the basis of relevant policies and regulations such as part-time work for party and government leading cadres, and implement a plan for mutual employment of personnel. Give full play to the role of the national law teacher training base. Optimize the structure of the law teacher team, and form a echelon law teacher team and academic innovation team according to the requirements of the legal theory system, discipline system, and curriculum system construction.

　　5. innovation and development legal theory research system
(13) Strengthen the basic theoretical research of law. We should strengthen the research on the basic principles of Marxist law, strengthen the refinement and interpretation of legal theory on the basis of Marxist classics, and constantly improve the theoretical system of Marxist rule of law. Adhere to the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought as the primary task, strengthen the research on the original concept, judgment, category and theory of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought, and strengthen the research on the significance, core meaning, rich connotation and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought. Closely centering on the practice of comprehensively governing the country according to law in the new era, we should earnestly strengthen the research on legal theory rooted in Chinese culture, based on China's national conditions, and solve China's problems. summarize and refine the subjective, original and iconic concepts, viewpoints and theories of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, write papers on the land of the motherland, do not be a "porter" of western theories, and build China's independent legal knowledge system. Grasp the interdisciplinary characteristics of the study of inner-party laws and regulations, coordinate basic research and applied research, and provide strong academic support for strengthening the construction of inner-party laws and regulations and governing the party in accordance with regulations. Strengthen the study of the history of the legal system of the new democratic revolution in China, especially the history of the legal system of the revolutionary base areas, inherit the red gene of the rule of law, and continue the blood of the red rule of law. Promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional legal culture, and support the development of legal disciplines with important cultural value and inheritance significance. Strengthen the study of foreign law and comparative law, reasonably learn from the useful experience of foreign countries, and serve to promote the practice of comprehensive rule of law. Strengthen the guiding role of the National Social Science Fund and ministerial-level legal scientific research projects, and promote the modernization of Marxist theory of the rule of law in China. We will build a number of national key legal basic theoretical research bases, increase support for legal basic theoretical research, and study and explore the mechanism of social forces to support legal basic theoretical research.
(14) Strengthen the comprehensive practice of governing the country according to law. Based on the establishment and improvement of the legal system that is urgently needed for national governance and meets the people's growing needs for a better life, we will carry out forward-looking, targeted, and reserve legal policy research around major plans, key reforms, and important measures for the construction of the rule of law, and make full use of the rule of law Power serves Chinese-style modernization. Actively respond to the new requirements and expectations of the people, systematically study the outstanding problems strongly reflected by the people in the fields of legislation, law enforcement, justice, and law-abiding, and put forward countermeasures and suggestions. Strengthen the research on the role of grassroots legislative contact points in the development of people's democracy in the whole process and the function of legislative "through train. Focusing on the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, strengthen research on the legal protection of major national development strategies, strengthen national security, technological innovation, public health, biosafety, ecological civilization, and prevention Research on the practice of the rule of law in key areas such as risks and major country diplomacy, and strengthen research on the supply of legal systems in new technologies, new formats and new applications. Building a high-end think tank under the rule of law that is urgently needed by the country, with distinctive features, institutional innovation and leading development. Build and make good use of the national foreign-related rule of law research base.
(15) Improve the scientific research assessment and evaluation system. Adhere to a clear talent training orientation, dedicated academic orientation, service to the party and the people, improve scientific research evaluation methods, build an academic evaluation system that meets the characteristics of the law discipline, and establish and improve education and incentives based on academic quality, social influence, and actual effects., Standardize, supervise, reward and punishment integrated scientific research integrity governance system, adhere to the "zero tolerance" of academic misconduct, and improve the supervision mechanism of academic norms, we will implement the linkage mechanism of punishment for academic misconduct and teachers' moral misconduct, guide teaching and research personnel to devote themselves to research and casting high-quality products, and create a clean and healthy scientific research environment. We will promote the transformation of project management from focusing on quantity and process to focusing on quality and results, implement performance classification evaluation, implement a system of representative works of scientific research achievements, improve the mechanism of incorporating theoretical articles in newspapers and periodicals, teaching and research results, and decision-making consultation reports into academic achievements, incorporate participation in the practice of the rule of law and advice into the scientific research assessment and evaluation system, and improve the scientific nature of scientific research assessment and evaluation. Improve the evaluation and award mechanism of legal research achievements, and organize the selection activities such as the Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences), the Outstanding Achievement Award for Chinese Law, the Dong Biwu Youth Law Achievement Award, the Qian Duansheng Law Research Achievement Award, and the National Law Textbook and Scientific Research Achievement Award. Strengthen the management of legal academic journals, firmly grasp the correct direction and public opinion orientation of running journals, promote the diversified, differentiated, and high-quality development of legal academic journals, support the development of foreign language legal academic journals, and build a long-term mechanism for the development of legal academic journals. Improve the evaluation index system of law journals, set up scientific and reasonable evaluation indicators for practical journals, not only academic standards such as citation rate, but also comprehensively consider the contribution to the practice of the rule of law.
(16) Promoting academic exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries. We will strengthen the international dissemination of Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, comprehensively demonstrate the historic achievements and changes that have taken place in the construction of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and fully demonstrate the great theoretical, truth and practical power of Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law. We will strengthen foreign exchanges in law and expand the fields and channels of foreign exchanges by carrying out bilateral and multilateral cooperative research, jointly holding academic forums and exchanging visiting scholars. Play the role of the China International Forum on the Rule of Law and other platforms. Strengthen the external publicity of my country's excellent legal research results, promote experts and scholars to speak out, innovate the expression of external discourse, and enhance the international communication capabilities of the socialist legal theory system and discourse system with Chinese characteristics. Conscientiously summarize the construction of my country's rule of law system and the practical experience of the rule of law, elucidate the excellent traditional Chinese legal culture, tell the story of the rule of law in China, and enhance the international influence and discourse power of the socialist rule of law system and rule of law theory with Chinese characteristics. Strengthen academic exchanges and cooperation with the "the belt and road initiative" countries on the rule of law. We will improve the mechanism for identifying foreign laws, promote the construction of databases of laws and regulations of major countries in the world, pay attention to organizing the collection, screening and translation of foreign legal information, and strengthen the Chinese translation of world legal masterpieces and the foreign translation of outstanding achievements in Chinese law.

　　6. strengthen organizational leadership
(17) Strengthen the organization and implementation. Adhere to the party's overall leadership over legal education and legal theoretical research, the Central Committee for the Rule of Law has strengthened overall planning, and the education department and judicial administrative department of the State Council have worked closely with relevant legal work departments to form a joint force to promote the implementation of various tasks. Party committees at all levels should strengthen organizational leadership, study and solve major problems in a timely manner, and coordinate the implementation of tasks. The rule of law departments should strengthen the supply of practical resources, practical platforms and practical opportunities, and promote the integration of legal education and legal practice. The China Law Society should give full play to the leading function of academic groups, attract and unite the majority of legal workers to better serve the construction of the rule of law in China. The departments of organization and personnel, publicity, development and reform, and finance should improve the policy guarantee mechanism to create a better environment and conditions for strengthening legal education and legal theoretical research. The party organizations of law colleges and scientific research institutes must fulfill the main responsibility of running schools, and earnestly implement various work measures to promote legal education and legal theoretical research. Explore the establishment of a national legal education and legal theory research resource information network platform, promote resource integration, system integration, resource interconnection and sharing.

Source: Xinhua News Agency