Vice-minister of justice surveys promotion of rule of law at primary level in Anhui

Vice-Minister of Justice Xiong Xuanguo led a survey examining the rule of law promotion work at the primary level and reviewing the legality of administrative decision-making in East China's Anhui province from July 4 to 6.

During the trip, the survey team, made up of officials from the Office of the Commission for Overall Law-based Governance of the CPC Central Committee, the State Commission Office of Public Sector Reform, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Justice, visited revolutionary sites in Hefei and Lu'an cities, and conducted on-site surveys at such places as the administrative approval bureau of Jinzhai county and the office of the commission for overall law-based governance of Baohe district in Hefei.

While stressing the need to carry on the Party history education campaign, Xiong, also a member of the Office of the Commission for Overall Law-based Governance of the CPC Central Committee, called for strengthening the promotion of the rule of law at the primary level, making institutional improvements for law-based governance at the city and county levels, solving prominent public concerns related to primary-level rule of law, and enhancing law-based primary-level governance.

He also called for improving the procedures for making major administrative decisions, enhancing leading officials' awareness and ability to make decisions according to the law, and giving play to the role of legal counsels and government lawyers in performing legal reviews during the process of major administrative decision-makings.