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The Launching Ceremony of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law in China No.11 (2013) and the Seminar on the Current Situation and Prospect of Development of the Rule of Law in China Held in Beijing

The Launching Ceremony of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law in China No.11 (2013) and the Seminar on the Current Situation and Prospect of Development of the Rule of Law in China, jointly organized by the CASS Law Institute and Social Sciences Academic Press (China), was held in the First Academic Lecture Hall of CASS on February 25, 2013. The launching ceremony was participated by officials from over a dozen government organs, including the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Water Resources, the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the State Administration of Work Safety, the Higher People’s Court of Jiangsu Province, the Research Office of the Higher People’s Court of Zhejiang Province, the People’s Government of Anhui Province, the Office of the “Leading Group on Ruling the Province by Law” of Guangdong Province, the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong Province, the Higher People’s Court of Hainan Province, the People’s Government of Shaanxi Province, the Intermediate People’s Court of Chendu Municipality, the People’s Government of Fuzhou City, the Intermediate People’s Court of Xiamen City, the Intermediate People’s Court of Shenzhen City, the People’s Government of Guiyang City, the People’s Government of Ningbo City, the Intermediate People’s Court of Xuzhou City, the People’s Court of Xicheng District of Beijing Municipality, and the Judicial Bureau of Yuhang District of Hangzhou City, experts and scholars from various research institutions and colleges, including CASS, Party School of the CPC, and Peking University, as well as journalists from dozens of mass medias such as Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, CCTV, China National Radio, China Youth Daily, Legal Daily, people.com.cn, Xinhuanet, and China.org.cn. The event was telecasted live on the internet by such online medias as China.org.cn, legaldaily.com.cn and QQ.com.

The launching ceremony was chaired by Mr. Xi Shouguang, President of the Social Sciences Academic Press. Mr. Chen Su, Deputy Director of the CASS Law Institute and CASS Institute of International Law, delivered a speech at the ceremony, in which he provided some basic information about the Blue Book on the Rule of Law in China, and pointed out that the compilation of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law in China is closely linked to the investigation of national situations and the innovation projects current being carried out by CASS and offers an important display platform for strengthening the research on legal theory and promoting the practice of the rule of law; Mr. Li Lin, Director of CASS Law Institute, gave a report on the development of the rule of law in China in 2012 and on the trend of development of the rule of law in China in 2013; Ms. Tian He, Head of the Department of Investigation on National Situation of the Rule of Law of CASS Law Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law in China, gave a report on the transparency of the Chinese government; Mr. Lu Yanbing, Deputy Head of the Department of Investigation on National Situation of the Rule of Law of CASS Law Institute, gave a report on the investigation of the current situation of implementation of the system of government procurement in China; Ms. Wang Xiaomei, a researcher at the Department of Investigation on National Situation of the Rule of Law of CASS Law Institute, reported on the situation of judicial transparency in China in 2012; Mr. Li Yanjie, another researcher at the Department of Investigation on National Situation of the Rule of Law of CASS Law Institute, reported on the transparency of procuratorial affairs in China in 2012; and Ms. Mei Caiju, Deputy Director of the Judicial Bureau of Yuhang District of Hangzhou City, gave a report on the situation of ruling the district by law by the Government of Yuhang District of Hangzhou City.

During the launching ceremony, the organizer played two short videos made by the Editorial Office of the Blue Book on the Rule of Law in China, which demonstrated with vivid pictures and languages the progresses made and the problems existing in the fields of government procurement, protection of private information of individuals, transparency of the governmental, judicial and procuratorial affairs in China and put forward suggestions on the further improvement of the work in these fields.

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