On the afternoon of 10th October, Liu Huachun, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Department of Justice of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Yao Guiqian, director of the Department of Legislation of the Department of Justice of the TAR and first grade researcher, Tsering Yangzong, deputy director of the Department of Legislation of the Department of Justice of the TAR, Yuan Jing, third grade chief officer of the Department of Legislation of the Department of Justice of the TAR, Teng Tianyun, second grade inspector of the Department of Justice of Jiangsu Province, Ba Yehan, vice director of the Department of Legislation of the Department of Justice of Jiangsu Province, Chen Guanghua, professor of the School of Law of Hohai University, Tang Shanpeng, professor of the School of Law of Nanjing Normal University. Professor Chen Guanghua of Hohai University, Professor Tang Shanpeng of Nanjing Normal University, and his party visited our institute to carry out legislative research and exchange. Professor Liu Qichuan, Secretary of the Party Committee of our institute, Professor Xiong Zhanglin, Professor Meng Hongzhi, Professor Yang Dengfeng, and Teacher Zhang Yunhao, Vice President of our institute, participated in the symposium of research and exchange. The symposium was presided over by Vice President Xiong Zhanglin.
At the beginning of the meeting, Secretary Liu Qichuan firstly expressed his warm welcome to all the leaders of the Department of Justice, and then introduced the School of Law's achievements in recent years from the history of the School, faculty and staff construction, disciplinary development and construction of scientific research platforms, the effectiveness of Wenrui's education, especially participation in the national and local legislation, etc. At the end, he hoped that all of them would speak freely, contribute their legislative experience and useful practices, and collaborate to promote the modernisation of the Chinese style.
Deputy Director Liu Huachun highly recognised the strength of the disciplines of Southeast University and our College, expressed his expectation of learning advanced legislative experience, and hoped that through this exchange, he would deeply absorb the opinions and suggestions of the academia on local legislative work, and provide reference for the administrative legislation of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Teng Tianyun, the second level inspector, made an introduction to the construction of legislative professional team in Jiangsu Province. Jiangsu Province has already had a lot of working experience in the construction of the legislative professional team, and further optimisation will be carried out in the next step to give full play to the intellectual support of the professional force of the academia to the legislative work.
In the speech session, the participating teachers shared their personal experience and experience in participating in the legislative work, and made suggestions on the local legislative work. Prof Meng Hongzhi introduced in detail the various legislative work in which he and the Jiangsu Local Legislation Research Base of Southeast University have participated, pointing out the importance of legislative team building and platform building. Prof Chen Guanghua expressed his doubts about the relationship between the three groups of superior laws and local regulations, legal provisions and actual operation, and legal text and common language in the process of participating in the legislation, and put forward the suggestions of strengthening the pre-legislative assessment and entrusting the third-party team. Professor Tang Shanpeng introduced the achievements of Nanjing Normal University in local legislation in five aspects: base construction, team construction, think tank achievements, regional collaborative development centre construction, and legislative assistant team construction. Professor Yang Dengfeng put forward his expectations for strengthening the connection between academic research results and legislative work, promoting the transformation of academic results in legislative application, increasing the number of court practice staff in the legislative team, and learning from the advanced experience of domestic and foreign legislative work. Mr Zhang Yunhao shared his personal experience from three perspectives of pre-legislation, legislation and post-legislation in light of his personal participation in legislative work, pointing out that the most important point of local legislation is to have characteristics to meet local needs.
At the end of the meeting, Vice President Xiong Zhanglin thanked the Department of Justice for its recognition and trust in the Law School's participation in the legislative work, as well as the unstinting sharing of all the experts in the meeting, summed up the content of the exchange meeting from the perspectives of the platform level, the construction of the professional team, and the operation of the legislation, hoping that the two sides will increase the exchanges and cooperation in the future, and jointly help the construction of China's rule of law.
This exchange symposium is a successful exploration of local legislative work, which not only demonstrates the level of disciplines and scientific research strength of our academy, but also expands the influence of our academy's participation in legislative work. Our institute will continue to strengthen its own construction, constantly broaden its research horizons, and play a unique role of institutions of higher learning in the process of building a rule-of-law state, a rule-of-law government, and a rule-of-law society.
(Song Ningwei)