During a recent interview, Liu Hongyu, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, and deputy head of the corporate legal counsel division of the All China Lawyers Association, proposed to build a foreign-related legal talent database in order to enhance China's ability to cope with global legal risks.
Chinese lawmakers on May 28 voted to adopt the country's long-expected Civil Code at the third session of the 13th National People's Congress, the top legislature.
Duan was a janitor at a township hotel in the southwestern province of Yunnan before being abruptly laid off in April by the hotel which has remained shut down since the COVID-19 outbreak in late January.
The Legal Services of China, an official website run by the Ministry of Justice to provide legal consultation services for the public, had received 94,127 requests for advice from the public since its launch two years ago, and all have been replied to.
Chinese authorities plan to extend a pilot program which allows for traffic accident disputes to be handled online, to the whole country, according to a statement issued on May 24.
Since the southwestern province of Guizhou launched its program of legal aid for targeted poverty alleviation three years ago, lawyers from the 20 involved local law firms have been contributing their legal expertise to the lifting of 20 extremely poor towns and two poor counties out of poverty.
Always keeping up with economic and social development, notary services in North China's Hebei province have been trying both efficient and innovative ways to satisfy people's various needs.
China's Ministry of Justice has introduced 10 measures to promote the role of legal assistance in epidemic control and economic and social development, according to the ministry.
As part of its effort to improve its business environment, North China's Shandong province has decided to establish a legal service agent mechanism aimed at serving local micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, or MSMEs.
When Yang Bo, head of the village of Jinfu in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, led a group of cadres to visit Chen Lianmei, whose family is among the registered impoverished households in the village, a few days ago, he received a warm welcome from Chen.
The judicial department of East China's Jiangsu province has taken steps to protect migrant workers' legal rights and interests, ensuring the effective implementation of its newly-issued rule for safeguarding wage payment of these workers.
China's Ministry of Justice has launched a program to recruit college graduates as volunteers to provide legal aid in the country's less-developed western regions.
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