The theme of the 2023 Constitution Publicity Week

The theme of the 2023 Constitution Publicity Week is "vigorously promote the spirit of the Constitution and build a socialist legal culture."

December 4, 2023 is the tenth National Constitution Day. The 2023 "Constitution Publicity Week" event will be from December 1 to 7. All localities and departments can make appropriate arrangements based on actual conditions. extension.

Key event arrangements for 2023 include: the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress will take the lead in organizing activities related to the 10th National Constitution Day; the National Legal Popularization Office will release a series of lecture videos on the rule of law.

The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Justice held the opening ceremony of the National Legal Education Practice Demonstration Base for Young Students in Beijing. The Ministry of Justice supported the Ministry of Education in organizing the National Constitution Day Education System's "Morning Reading of the Constitution" activities and "The Constitution Accompanying Us" "Growth" song singing and other theme activities for young students' constitutional and legal education.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Justice, and the National Legal Popularization Office held a special exhibition and a series of lectures on socialist rule of law culture at the National Library; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Justice held " The "Constitution into Rural Areas" home event; the Ministry of Justice and the National Legal Popularization Office held a pilot area exchange meeting for the role of "legally aware people" in Hebei Province.

The role and significance of the Constitution

Each article of the General Outline of the Constitution centrally stipulates our country’s governance strategies in various fields, and also provides detailed guidance on our country’s economic system, national resources, social security, and medical and health care. , science, education, culture, military and national defense and other related systems have been stipulated. In addition, the Constitution also stipulates the rights and obligations of citizens.

The basic rights of our citizens include: equality before the law, the right to vote and be elected, freedom of speech, press, association, procession, demonstration, inviolability of personal dignity, inviolability of residence, etc. The basic obligations of Chinese citizens include: abiding by laws and disciplines, safeguarding national unity and the unity of all ethnic groups in the country, safeguarding the security, honor and interests of the motherland, and paying taxes honorably.

Some of them are both rights and obligations, such as receiving education and participating in labor. The Constitution stipulates citizens' rights in order to clarify the rights that citizens enjoy in accordance with the law and resolutely protect them; stipulates citizens' obligations in order to clarify the responsibilities that citizens should perform in accordance with the law, and cannot shirk them at will, let alone increase them arbitrarily.