The Supreme People's Court (SPC) held a symposium with the Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on implementing whole-process people's democracy in the court's work on May 11. Zhang Jun, president of the SPC, and Yang Xiaochao, chairperson of the NPC Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee, attended the meeting.    

The Supreme People's Court (SPC) holds a symposium with the Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress on May 11, 2023. [Photo/court.gov.cn]

Zhang extended his appreciation to the committee for its long-term support for and supervision over the SPC's work. The visit of the committee shortly after the establishment of its new team is not only for deepening supervision, but also for support at doorstep of the court, he said, pledging that the people's courts will consciously accept supervision and actively seek support, in order to gather a wider range of strengths,  promote the modernization of judicial trial work, and fully implement whole-process people's democracy and the people-centered development philosophy.

Zhang Jun, secretary of the SPC's Leading Party Members' Group and president of the SPC, attends the symposium on May 11, 2023. [Photo/court.gov.cn]

He introduced the SPC's work since the first session of the 14th NPC. Meetings were held to learn the guiding principles of the two sessions. Efforts were made to combine Party education campaign with propelling trial and execution work, with a problem-oriented approach and focusing on inspection and rectification. Field research and studies were extensively carried out to seek opinions from various departments and grassroots organizations. A scientific and effective performance appraisal system was explored for the modernization of judgment concepts, and more efforts were made to foster a team with loyalty and integrity, as well as to amend the Civil Procedure Law and the Administrative Procedure Law, and to formulate a law on civil compulsory enforcement in cooperation with the committee.

Yang Xiaochao, chairperson of the NPC Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee, attends the symposium on May 11, 2023. [Photo/court.gov.cn]

Yang introduced the committee's work in the next step from four aspects: upholding the Party's absolute leadership, carrying out legislation work to a high standard and supervision work in strict accordance with the law, and adopting an effective working mechanism.