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We need to establish a complete system of legal services, develop the public
legal service system for both urban and rural populations, and improve the
systems of legal aid and judicial assistance. We need to improve the mechanisms
for people to defend their rights and resolve their disputes in accordance with the
law; establish sound mechanisms for giving early warning about social conflicts,
for allowing people to express their interests, for carrying out negotiation and
communication, and for providing legal remedies and assistance; and open up
legal channels for coordinating interests among the people and for protecting their
rights and interests. We need to improve the multi-dimensional system for crime
prevention and control, and protect the life and property of the people.

It was put forward at the session that to comprehensively advance the
law-based governance of the country, we must channel great energy into raising
the levels of political integrity and professional competence and ethics of the rule
of law professionals, and strive to develop a contingent of professionals devoted
to the socialist rule of law and loyal to the Party, the country, the people, and the
law.

To build a contingent of highly competent rule of law professionals, we need
to give top priority to strengthening their political integrity; improve the
competence of those who work for the legislation, administrative enforcement of
law, and the judiciary; open channels for the legislature, the law enforcement
authorities, and the judiciary to transfer their officials and personnel among
themselves, and to give a place to eligible officials and personnel from other
sectors; increase the levels of standardization, specialization, and professionalism
among rule of law professionals; improve the system for certifying legal
professionals; establish a system for recruiting eligible lawyers and legal experts
into the ranks of legislators, judges, and public procurators; build a more
standardized and convenient mechanism for recruiting university graduates
majoring in law; and improve the system of job security for rule of law
professionals.

We need to raise the level of competence of legal service providers, prompt
lawyers to become more self-motivated and resolute in following the path of
socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and build a well-mixed
contingent of private, government, and corporate lawyers who complement each
other’s strengths.
We need to make innovations in the mechanisms for training rule of law
professionals; form complete theoretical and disciplinary systems, as well as
curriculums for socialist legal studies with Chinese characteristics; and incorporate
the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics into our textbooks,
bringing it into our classrooms, and drumming it into our students, thereby
cultivating cohorts of talented professionals for today and for the future, who are

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