Ministry of Justice holds law-based grassroots governance meeting in Nanjing

The Ministry of Justice held a meeting on promoting law-based governance at the grassroots level in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, on April 17.

The meeting focused on five key judicial tasks — correction through education, community correction, resettlement and assistance for released prisoners, dispute resolution, and legal publicity for social harmony and stability.

Entrusted by Minister of Justice He Rong, Vice-Minister of Justice Wu Yanjun addressed the meeting. Li Yaoguang, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Commission of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, also spoke.

The meeting urged judicial administrative organs at all levels to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and coordinate work in the five key judicial areas. It emphasized the need to steadily improve the quality of correction through education, further standardize coordination and transference in the execution of punishment, and enhance management of released prisoners.

Participants called for progress to be made in dispute resolution, legal publicity, preventing and reducing recidivism, and maintaining social harmony and stability.

The meeting also highlighted the need for strengthened management and services for minor offenders under community correctional programs, individuals undergoing drug rehabilitation, and released prisoners. It called for diversified approaches to address the root causes of disputes and emphasized advancing law-based approaches to petition work.

Participants called for greater legal safeguards to bolster the rule of law in social governance, actively support the standardized construction of comprehensive governance centers, and continuously strengthen the standardized development of judicial offices.