Contents of the Supreme People’s Court’s Opinions on Further Strengthening the Cultural Construction of People’s Courts

1. The importance, guiding ideology and basic principles of strengthening the cultural construction of people's courts

(1) Fully understand the importance of strengthening the cultural construction of people's courts. Practice has proved that advanced culture has unique functions and great charm, and can play the role of education, edification, guidance, standardization, cohesion, and motivation in a subtle way. The Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that we should "adhere to the direction of advanced socialist culture, raise a new upsurge in socialist cultural construction, stimulate the cultural creative vitality of the entire nation, and improve the country's cultural soft power." In order to implement the spirit of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in recent years, , the People's Courts have made many useful explorations in spiritual culture, institutional culture, behavioral culture, material culture and other aspects, which have played a positive role in promoting the scientific development of the People's Courts. However, it should also be noted that there are still problems such as insufficient attention to the cultural construction of the people's courts, unbalanced development, lack of focus, lack of close connection with trial execution, and failure to form a long-term mechanism. People's courts at all levels must, in accordance with the requirements of the Central Committee, further strengthen the cultural construction of people's courts, effectively take effective measures to solve existing problems, make full use of advanced cultural power to strengthen values, lay a solid ideological foundation, stimulate team vitality, publicize the work of the courts, and establish the image of the courts.

(2) Guiding ideology for the cultural construction of people’s courts. Hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, be guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", thoroughly implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, adhere to the socialist core value system, firmly establish the concept of socialist rule of law, and adhere to the guidance of "three supremacy" Thoughts and the work theme of "serving the overall situation and serving the people's justice", in accordance with the characteristics of judicial work and the laws of cultural construction, we will deeply explore and continuously enrich the cultural connotation of the court's work, and vigorously strengthen the spiritual culture, institutional culture, behavioral culture, and material culture of the people's courts. , providing spiritual motivation, intellectual support and cultural guarantee for the scientific development of the people's courts.

(3) Basic principles for the cultural construction of people’s courts. Adhere to people-oriented, respect the main position of police officers, use scientific theories to guide people, educate people with advanced culture, and inspire people with noble spirits to promote the all-round development of police officers; adhere to the participation of all employees, strengthen the police officers' sense of ownership, mobilize and organize the majority of police officers to actively use their talents to serve Contribute to the cultural construction of the court; adhere to the reality, follow the requirements of being close to trials, judges, and grassroots, implement cultural construction into all aspects of court work, and strive to achieve practical results; insist on inheritance and innovation, pay attention to carrying forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and learn from other The industry's advanced culture absorbs the beneficial results of foreign rule of law culture, resolutely resists the negative influence of decadent culture, and constantly explores new content and new carriers for the construction of court culture with innovative ideas and methods.

2. Vigorously promote the judicial core values ??of fairness, integrity, and serving the people

The judicial core values ??of fairness, integrity, and serving the people are the concentration of the socialist core value system in the judicial field Reflection is the essential connotation of the spiritual culture of the People's Court and the essence and soul of the People's Court culture. Strengthening the research, education and practice of judicial core values ??must be regarded as the primary task of the cultural construction of the people's courts, and we must pay close attention to ensuring that thoughts are integrated and behaviors are reflected.

(1) Strengthen theoretical research. Guided by the Marxist worldview and methodology, judicial core values ??must be included in the research scope of the socialist core value system and judicial value system. It is necessary to hold seminars and other forms to deeply explore and explain the scientific connotation, significance and practical requirements of judicial core values, and provide theoretical support for publicity, education and implementation.

(2) Carry out education and training. It is necessary to carry out extensive educational activities on judicial core values ??among all police officers to guide them to firmly establish a correct view of power, money and status. It is necessary to incorporate judicial core values ??into the police training content system to ensure that they enter the teaching materials, classrooms and minds. It is necessary to focus on the training of main leading cadres, new leading cadres and front-line police officers.

(3) Carry out characteristic practical activities. It is necessary to closely integrate the cultivation of judicial core values ??with trial execution, court reform and team building, timely organize and carry out themed practical activities, and guide the police officers to achieve the unity of learning and application, knowledge and action. It is necessary to use speech contests, essay activities, calligraphy and painting photography exhibitions, singing competitions, art performances and other forms that are popular among police officers to vigorously promote the core values ??of justice, effectively enhance their appeal, and ensure that they are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

(4) Establish the spirit of the court.

It is necessary to closely focus on the core judicial values, combine the fine traditions of the court, local cultural characteristics, court work and the actual situation of the team, summarize and refine the spirit of the court, and actively promote and display the spiritual and cultural features of the court.

(5) Carry out judges’ oath-taking activities. It is necessary to establish and promote the implementation of the judge's oath system based on the core judicial values. Judges should solemnly promise their loyalty to the party and the country, their love for the people, their respect for the law and their commitment to their duties by publicly declaring an oath.

(6) Strengthen external publicity. It is necessary to make full use of modern mass media and communication methods to widely publicize the core values ??of justice to the whole society and continuously expand social influence. It is necessary to actively publicize various measures and important achievements of the people's courts in practicing core judicial values, and strive to create a good social public opinion environment.

3. Strengthen judicial professionalism and establish a good professional image

Good judicial professionalism and professional image are a concrete manifestation of judicial core values ??and an important part of the construction of behavioral culture in people's courts. Target. It is necessary to focus on the construction of judicial professional ethics and behavioral norms, vigorously strengthen the construction of behavioral culture, and cultivate and establish a professional image of judicial fairness, integrity, dedication to the people, and standardization and civilization.

(1) Strengthen the construction of professional ethics. It is necessary to give full play to the important role of judicial professional ethics in cultivating judicial conscience and shaping judges' behavior, and actively take effective measures to continuously strengthen the deep affection for the people, loyalty to the law, and belief and pursuit of fairness and justice. Efforts should be made to create a cultural atmosphere that upholds and abides by professional ethics, actively explores the establishment of a judicial professional ethics evaluation system, and adopts various forms such as admonishment talks, warning education, and moral evaluation to enhance the binding force of judicial professional ethics.

(2) Strictly regulate judicial behavior. It is necessary to attach great importance to the institutionalization of judicial behavior, use clear institutional norms to restrain and guide the words and deeds of police officers, strictly standardize the civilized language of the people's courts, form a long-term mechanism that relies on the system to manage people and act in accordance with the system, and strive to shape standardized and civilized judicial behavior. culture. It is necessary to educate and guide police officers to observe judicial etiquette, standardize judicial words and deeds, pay attention to judicial civilization, improve judicial style, and establish a judicial image. It is necessary to organize and carry out inspection activities to strengthen the supervision and assessment of the judicial behavior of police officers.

(3) Effectively safeguard judicial fairness. It is necessary to further establish and improve case handling norms and standards for important positions such as case filing, criminal trials, civil and commercial trials, administrative trials, trial supervision, and execution, and strictly regulate the exercise of powers and words and deeds of police officers to ensure the realization of fairness and justice and establish an image of judicial impartiality. It is necessary to educate and guide police officers to adhere to facts as the basis and law as the criterion in law enforcement and case handling, to achieve substantive fairness, procedural fairness and image fairness, constantly improve the quality and efficiency of case handling, and strive to achieve legal, social and political effects. Organic unity.

(4) Enhance awareness of judicial integrity. In accordance with the requirements of "strict governance", we must actively cultivate a culture of judicial integrity, strictly implement the "Five Strict Prohibitions" and other disciplinary regulations, ensure that warning education and supervision and management are in place, and continuously improve the ability of the police to resist corruption and prevent degeneration. Strengthen the awareness of anti-corruption and promote integrity, and strive to form an ideological and moral foundation and cultural atmosphere of integrity, honor, corruption and shame.

(5) Implement judicial measures for the people. It is necessary to continue to carry out practical activities with the theme of "People's Judges for the People" to enhance the theoretical, emotional and practical identification of the police officers with the people's nature of the people's courts. We must persist in conducting in-depth mass surveys and visits, conducting circuit trials, sending justice to the grassroots, and implement systems such as first-person accountability, service commitments, and civilized reception, so as to implement the requirements of justice for the people.

(6) Set good examples. In accordance with the requirements of the central government, we must carry out in-depth activities to strive for excellence, actively cultivate and vigorously commend advanced models in the court system, and strive to create a good atmosphere for learning from the advanced and catching up with the advanced. It is necessary to carry out extensive activities to learn from major models such as Song Yushui and Chen Yanping, as well as advanced models around them, increase publicity efforts, give play to the leading and demonstration role of advanced models, and comprehensively enhance the professional cultivation and professional image of the court team.

IV. Strive to create a cultural atmosphere that advocates learning, proactiveness, and distinctive characteristics

Creating a cultural atmosphere that advocates learning, proactiveness, and distinctive characteristics is an important task in the cultural construction of the People's Courts , is an important guarantee for building a learning court. It is necessary to closely integrate the strengthening of the construction of learning courts and the cultural construction of people's courts to promote and complement each other and provide a strong guarantee for improving the judicial capabilities of the police officers.

(1) Vigorously strengthen the construction of learning courts.

It is necessary to conscientiously implement the spirit and requirements of the Central Committee on building a learning society and a learning party, and vigorously strengthen the construction of learning courts. It is necessary to promote a learning style in the courts and guide the police officers to firmly establish the concept of learning for all and lifelong learning. It is necessary to educate police officers to improve their style of study, focus on doing their jobs well and improving their judicial capabilities, and truly apply what they have learned. It is necessary to further establish and improve the learning system and strive to form a long-term mechanism to strengthen learning.

(2) Extensively carry out the "Love Reading, Read Good Books, and Be Good at Reading" activities. It is necessary to guide the police officers to regard reading as an important way to improve their work ability, develop good reading habits, enrich their knowledge reserves, optimize their knowledge structure, and enhance their cultural taste. Carry out reading activities closely in conjunction with the actual work of the court, establish reading interest groups, organize reading clubs, etc., to promote the in-depth development of reading activities.

(3) Effectively strengthen the construction of libraries (reading rooms). The construction of the library (reading room) must be regarded as a basic work to build a learning court and improve the quality of the team and pay close attention to it. It is necessary to set up a special "judge bookshelf" to scientifically equip and update legal business and other types of books in a timely manner according to the actual needs of court work, so as to provide good conditions for the police officers to work and study.

(4) Do a good job in building court publications and networks. It is necessary to actively create distinctive court publications to provide an important platform for police officers to summarize and exchange their thoughts, experiences, working methods and case handling experiences. It is necessary to set up a court culture construction column on the court intranet to provide an effective carrier for the majority of police officers to strengthen their learning and participate in cultural construction. Courts where conditions permit should strengthen cooperation with news media such as newspapers, radio, television and the Internet, set up columns and special programs to promote the work of the people's courts, and actively disseminate and display court culture to the society.

(5) Strengthen the construction of the History (Honorary) Room of the Academy. It is necessary to use a special place to set up a court history (honor) room to focus on displaying the development history, work performance, awards and honors received by the court, as well as the outstanding deeds of advanced models. It is necessary to organize police officers, especially new recruits, to visit and study in the history (honor) room of the college, receive ideological education, and stimulate a sense of collective honor and belonging. It is necessary to establish a "Court Open Day" and invite the people and people from all walks of life to visit the Court History (Honorary) Room to deepen their understanding and support for the work of the Court.

(6) Strengthen the cultural image creation of trial and office spaces. Trial chambers and office spaces must be planned and constructed in accordance with the requirements of "appropriate scale, solemn and practical, standardized layout, and complete functions" and strive to create a physical environment that reflects the culture of the people's courts. It is necessary to focus on strengthening the construction of civilized windows such as filing cases and petitions, conscientiously implement various judicial convenience and people-benefit measures, and strive to create a good atmosphere that respects and facilitates the people. In accordance with the requirements of "Strengthening the Institute with Science and Technology", office facilities should be reasonably allocated, the technological content of offices should be continuously improved, office conditions should be gradually improved, electronic offices should be actively promoted, and electronic offices should be actively promoted to create a convenient, relaxed and harmonious working environment for police officers.

(7) Strengthen the cultural atmosphere in the public areas of the court. It is necessary to use public areas such as office building lobbies, corridors, reception rooms, etc. to carefully build "cultural corridors" and "cultural walls" to hang and post legal quotes, anti-corruption aphorisms, text signs that reflect the work philosophy of the court, and the creations of the police officers that reflect the times. Various works of spirit and judge style. People's courts where conditions permit should set up electronic scrolling screens (touch screens) to promptly display and publicize the cultural concepts and cultural practices of the people's courts.

(8) Strengthen the construction of cultural and sports venues and facilities. It is necessary to give full play to subjective initiative, actively raise funds, establish and improve cultural and sports activity venues, and configure relevant equipment and facilities to provide good conditions for the police officers to relieve work pressure, develop a good life interest, and maintain physical and mental health. It is necessary to organize and establish various cultural and sports associations, literary and artistic groups and interest groups, actively carry out various forms of fitness sports and literary and artistic activities, and continuously enrich the cultural life of the police officers.

(9) Pay attention to humanistic care and spiritual guidance. It is necessary to establish and implement systems for leading cadres to contact police officers and daily exchanges and heart-to-heart talks, and to smooth communication channels with police officers. While "strictly managing the hospital", we must adhere to "treat police officers with preferential treatment", try our best to meet the reasonable needs of police officers, and help police officers solve practical difficulties in work and life. It is necessary to scientifically and rationally set work indicators and assessment standards, implement national regulations on cadre vacations, organize regular physical examinations for police officers, carry out mental health education, relieve the physical and psychological pressure of police officers, and cultivate a positive, optimistic, rational, peaceful, and healthy mentality. Courts where conditions permit can hire full-time psychologists to make psychological adjustments for front-line judges and encourage police officers to reduce stress in many aspects.

5. Effectively strengthen the organizational leadership for the cultural construction of the people's courts

(1) Attach great importance and strengthen leadership. People's courts at all levels should carry out court culture construction based on actual conditions, and study and formulate specific plans and measures to strengthen court culture construction. It is necessary to establish a leading group for the cultural construction of the court, with the main leader taking overall responsibility and the leaders in charge of specific tasks to promptly study and solve issues such as work arrangements, staffing and funding guarantees for cultural construction. Cultural construction should be incorporated into the court management system as an important indicator for evaluating the overall work of the court to ensure the realization of cultural construction goals. It is necessary to attach great importance to system construction, effectively strengthen the standardized management of all work links, and ensure the healthy and orderly development of cultural construction.

(2) Clarify responsibilities and form synergy. The political departments of the people's courts at all levels must play a leading role in planning, guiding, supervising and inspecting cultural construction; other departments and party and mass organizations must actively implement the overall arrangements and requirements for court cultural construction and give full play to their functions , coordinate and carry out relevant work to ensure the formation of a good working pattern with clear responsibilities, division of labor, and joint management.

(3) Strengthen demonstration and guidance. It is necessary to summarize and promote the fresh experiences of court culture construction in various places and set an example. The Supreme People's Court timely launched the "National Court Cultural Construction Demonstration Unit", and all higher people's courts should strengthen the court cultural demonstration construction within their respective jurisdictions, and promote the comprehensive development of the people's court cultural construction work as a whole.

(4) Strengthen funding guarantee. It is necessary to effectively increase investment in cultural construction, allocate special funds for cultural activities, build cultural and sports venues, etc., and ensure that the proportion of investment gradually increases with economic growth.