Further improve citizens' legal literacy (new perspective)
2022-11-21
In recent years, the pilot action to improve citizens' legal literacy has been solidly promoted in many places across the country, including "improving the ability of the state staff under the rule of law", "learning the law and building a foundation" for young people, "understanding the law and understanding the reason" for village (community) personnel, and "abiding by the law" for enterprise (unit) personnel. These explorations and practices from the grass-roots front line have become a vivid epitome of China's legal popularization work. The authority of law originates from the people's inner support and sincere belief, which requires continuous popularization of legal knowledge and improvement of citizens' legal literacy. It is a great feat in the history of human rule of law and an important part of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics to continue to popularize the law in a country with a population of more than 1.4 billion. Since 1986, China has successively implemented and completed seven five-year plans for law popularization. Last June, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council forwarded the Eighth Five Year Plan (2021-2025) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice on Carrying out Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law. Through the continuous and in-depth publicity of law popularization, people's legal awareness and legal literacy have been constantly improved. The previous comprehensive analysis report of a nationwide survey on social psychology showed that when they or their families encounter unfair things, those who choose to "solve them through legal channels" rank first. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that we should promote the socialist spirit of the rule of law, inherit the excellent traditional legal culture of China, and guide all people to be loyal advocates, conscientious followers, and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law. As China embarks on a new journey to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way and enters a new stage of development, it is urgent to further improve citizens' legal literacy and promote the whole society to respect, abide by and use the law. Adhere to the people's position. In the final analysis, improving citizens' legal literacy is for the masses. We should rely on the masses and serve them. We should focus on the hot and difficult issues that the masses care about and worry about. We should start from the needs of the masses and speak what the masses can understand, so that the masses can deeply feel the warmth and power of the law. This is exactly what the Eighth Five Year Plan for Law Popularization emphasizes on "focusing on improving the pertinence and effectiveness of law popularization". Strengthen education and guidance. To improve citizens' legal literacy, legal education should be constantly promoted and incorporated into the cadre education system, national education system and social education system. For state functionaries, education should guide them to firmly establish the basic concepts of the rule of law, such as the supremacy of the Constitution and the law, equality before the law, statutory rights, and the exercise of rights according to law. We will focus on the "key minority" and make it a conscious act and a necessary quality for leading cadres to respect the law, abide by the law and use it. For teenagers, we should guide them to buckle the first button of their lives through education and teaching. For different subjects in the whole society, we should carry out education on the rule of law by levels and classifications, improve the awareness and ability of all groups to safeguard their rights and interests according to law, and make the rule of law gradually become the way of thinking and behavior of the whole people. Promote the cultivation of practice. To improve citizens' legal literacy is not to say "slogans" written on the mouth, paper and wall, but to be integrated into the practice of the rule of law. For every citizen, we should start from obeying traffic rules, cultivating garbage classification habits, stopping food waste and other daily life behaviors, and constantly improve our own rule awareness. For law workers, the realization of fairness and justice in each case is
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