General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches importance to the cultivation of talents under the rule of law
The cultivation of legal talents should always adhere to the fundamental position of educating talents for the Party and the country, with the cultivation of talents as the core and the establishment of morality as the foundation. With a clear stance, we should strengthen ideological and political education, moral education, and education on socialist core values, and take the effectiveness of moral education as the fundamental criterion for testing our work.
◇ Construct an independent legal knowledge system in China as a source of knowledge for cultivating legal talents, and achieve a fundamental transformation from a Western theoretical "porter" to a Chinese academic creator and global academic contributor.
◇ Adhere to the principle of putting oneself first, embracing diversity, and highlighting characteristics, conduct in-depth research and solve the problems of who to teach, what to teach, who to teach, and how to teach, and strive to contribute to the construction of the world's legal civilization with Chinese wisdom and practice.
◇ Strengthen practical teaching of law, deepen collaborative education, and promote the deep connection between law schools and legal work departments in the formulation of talent training programs, curriculum construction, textbook construction, and student internships and practical training.
Accelerating the cultivation of foreign-related legal talents is an important measure to implement the strategic layout of the Party and the state on foreign-related legal work in the new era. It has a fundamental, strategic, and leading position in the construction of foreign-related legal system.
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High quality rule of law talents are the fundamental and strategic support for building a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist rule of law country. They are of great significance for comprehensively building a socialist modernized country on the track of rule of law.
Having both virtue and talent, cultivating both morality and law
The cultivation of legal talents should always adhere to the fundamental position of educating talents for the Party and the country, with cultivating talents as the core and moral education as the foundation. It is necessary to strengthen ideological and political education, moral education, and socialist core values education, and take the effectiveness of moral education as the fundamental criterion for testing the work.
The cultivation of both morality and law is a concrete manifestation of the educational philosophy of combining morality and talent in the cultivation of legal talents. The cultivation of legal talents should adhere to the combination of legal professional ability cultivation and legal professional spirit shaping, and integrate professional ethics education into legal professional education.
To cultivate rule of law talents with both moral and legal abilities, efforts should be made to guide them to grasp the basic concepts and essence of law, rule of law, and legal theory, cultivate legal thinking, rule of law thinking, and legal theory thinking, and move forward in the direction of seeking truth, understanding principles, and understanding facts. At the same time, efforts should be made to guide rule of law talents to cultivate strong, proactive, and self-improvement qualities, practice the socialist concept and spirit of rule of law, and achieve unity of knowledge and action, and consistency in appearance and substance.
Cultivate legal talents with firm ideals and beliefs. Ideals and beliefs are the spiritual "calcium" of the legal talent team. Without ideals and beliefs, it will lead to a spiritual "calcium deficiency" and cannot withstand temptation, losing in the face of money, power, relationships, and human emotions.
Ideal beliefs are the spiritual pillar of legal talents, and ideological and political qualities are the fundamental requirements of legal talents. We must cultivate legal talents to become firm believers, practitioners, and defenders of Marxist legal thought and socialist legal theory with Chinese characteristics, and always maintain their political nature of loyalty to the Party, the country, the people, and the law.
Cultivate legal talents with strong patriotism. From history to reality, patriotism is deeply rooted in the cultural genes of the Chinese nation. The rule of law is the fundamental way of governing a country, and legal talents are the promoters and practitioners of the construction of the rule of law.
To shoulder the heavy responsibility of governing the country, one must have a strong sense of patriotism. To cultivate high-quality legal talents in the new era, we must adhere to the guidance of Marxist legal thought and the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and adhere to the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. We must base ourselves on China's actual situation, regard strong patriotism as the basic requirement for legal talents, and adhere to the talent cultivation orientation of thinking about the country's needs, being urgent about the country's needs, and responding to the country's needs.
Cultivate legal talents with a solid foundation in law. Law is a social science that studies the legal system, legal phenomena, and their laws. The discipline of law is highly practical, with the pursuit of fairness and justice as its value pursuit. Having solid legal knowledge, meticulous legal thinking, and good legal literacy is the foundation for legal professionals to engage in the legal profession.
Cultivating legal talents not only emphasizes basic theoretical knowledge, but also cultivates legal awareness, legal spirit, and legal practice ability, and responds to legal practice problems in different stages of development.
To cultivate legal talents with a solid foundation in law, it is necessary to rely on China's independent legal knowledge system, combine the basic principles of Marxist law with the specific realities of China's legal construction, combine them with China's excellent traditional legal culture, extract the interpretation framework of Chinese law from China's legal practice, construct China's independent legal knowledge system, and use it as a source of knowledge for the cultivation of legal talents, achieving a fundamental transformation from Western theoretical "porters" to Chinese academic creators and world academic contributors.
Innovative mechanism for cultivating legal talents
To strengthen the construction of the legal work team, improve the quality of legal personnel, and cultivate legal talents, it is necessary to vigorously develop legal education and innovate the mechanism for cultivating legal talents. The innovation of the mechanism for cultivating legal talents largely depends on the construction and improvement of the legal theoretical system, disciplinary system, and curriculum system.
Strengthen basic research and build a theoretical system of socialist law with Chinese characteristics. The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Promotion of Rule of Law, which was deliberated and passed at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, proposes to strengthen the research on basic theories of law and form a sound theoretical, disciplinary, and curriculum system of socialist law with Chinese characteristics; Promote the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics to be incorporated into textbooks, classrooms, and minds, and cultivate and cultivate legal talents and reserve forces who are familiar with and adhere to the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics.
The theoretical system of law is composed of the fundamental theories of law, the core theories of law, and the methodology of law. It is the scientific, conceptual, and theoretical experience of legal practice. The theoretical system of socialist law with Chinese characteristics is an important component of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is the result of the practical, sinicized, and contemporary development of Marxist legal thought.
Philosophical and social science workers should consciously adhere to Marxism as the guide, consciously integrate the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics throughout the entire process of research and teaching, and transform it into clear theoretical consciousness, firm political beliefs, and scientific thinking methods. Especially, breaking away from dependence on Western legal theory, based on Chinese experience and local resources, we will summarize and construct a theoretical system, extract a series of concepts, categories, and theories from China's legal life and rule of law experience, and create a legal theoretical system and discourse system with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style.
Strengthen the construction of the legal discipline system and lay a solid foundation for cultivating legal talents. The construction of the legal discipline system is crucial for the cultivation of legal talents.
At present, we should face up to the problems of the unreasonable structure of the legal discipline, the incomplete disciplinary system, the insufficient opening of new disciplines urgently needed by society, and the insufficient cross integration of the legal discipline with other disciplines. We should break down the internal knowledge barriers of the legal discipline, strengthen the construction of emerging cross disciplinary legal disciplines and key areas of legal discipline that serve the country's key development strategy.
Adhere to the principle of putting oneself first, embracing diversity, and highlighting distinctive features, conduct in-depth research and solve the problems of who to teach, what to teach, who to teach, and how to teach, and strive to contribute to the construction of the world's rule of law civilization with Chinese wisdom and practice. We should actively absorb and learn from the excellent achievements of the rule of law civilization in the world, and also discern them. We should selectively absorb and transform them, and cannot blindly swallow or copy them.
Update and improve the legal curriculum system, and promote the close integration of theory and practice. The discipline of law is highly practical, and legal education should balance the teaching of legal knowledge with practical teaching.
At the beginning of 2023, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Legal Education and Theoretical Research in the New Era", which requires updating and improving the curriculum system of the legal profession, and promoting the construction of theoretical and practical teaching courses in the legal profession. Adapt to the new form and requirements of "Internet plus education", and innovate educational teaching methods and means. At present, it is necessary to strengthen practical teaching of law, deepen collaborative education, and promote the deep connection between law schools and legal work departments in the formulation of talent training programs, curriculum construction, textbook construction, and student internships and practical training.
Accelerate the cultivation of foreign-related legal talents
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes to strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related fields, and coordinate the promotion of domestic and foreign-related rule of law. Talent cultivation is the foundation and foundation for promoting the construction of foreign-related rule of law. Accelerating the cultivation of foreign-related legal talents is an important measure to implement the strategic layout of the Party and the state on foreign-related legal work in the new era. It has a fundamental, strategic, and leading position in the construction of foreign-related legal system.
At present, the world's unprecedented great changes are accelerating, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period. The domestic and international situation is undergoing profound and complex changes, and the instability and uncertainty of the international environment are significantly increasing. The role of the rule of law in stabilizing international order, regulating international relations, shaping international rules, and coordinating international governance is becoming increasingly prominent. There is an urgent need to cultivate a large number of foreign-related rule of law talents with strong patriotism, international vision, understanding of international rules, and good at handling international affairs.
——Strengthen political guidance and focus on mission tasks.
——Proficient in legal foreign languages and enhance the ability to provide legal services related to foreign affairs. Fully understanding the strategic significance of legal English as an emerging interdisciplinary field, starting from cultivating composite foreign language talents of "legal English+international law", leveraging the professional advantages of foreign language departments, strengthening the training of students' foreign language abilities, and focusing on guiding students to integrate their foreign language abilities and cross-cultural communication abilities into foreign-related legal work.
——Improve subject settings and optimize curriculum systems. We should enhance the status of international law in the legal discipline system and explore the construction of first level disciplines or doctoral and master's degree authorization points related to foreign rule of law and international law. Support the cross integration of emerging disciplines such as international law, foreign law, comparative law, and regional country studies, and build a number of high-quality courses related to international law, regional law, country law, foreign law, comparative law, etc. Focus on key areas of foreign-related rule of law work, and offer interdisciplinary courses such as intellectual property, international finance, international trade, and national security.
——Build a high-quality team of foreign-related rule of law teachers. Vigorously cultivate and cultivate a high-quality professional teaching team with noble professional ethics, exquisite skills, reasonable structure, and full of vitality, support and attract outstanding talents to be enthusiastic, meticulous, long-term, and lifelong in teaching. Establish an attractive salary and security system, widely attract excellent teachers both on campus and at home and abroad, and pay special attention to attracting practical experts with rich experience in foreign-related legal work to join the team of foreign-related legal teachers.
——Innovate the training model for foreign-related legal talents. Actively recommend more outstanding foreign-related legal talents to serve in the International Economic and Trade Organization and international arbitration institutions, actively participate in and strive to lead the formulation of international rules, promote the formation of a fair, reasonable, and transparent international rule system, and enhance China's voice and influence in the transformation of the global governance system.
The "Small Bench" Legal Education Propaganda Team, jointly established by the Agricultural Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment of Yongchuan District, the Yongchuan District Judicial Bureau, and Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, visited Shuangxing Village in Xianlong Town to carry out legal education activities. Photo by Huang Wei/This magazine
