On May 27, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences themed "Starting the '15th Five- Plan'". Teng Jiguo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission; Huang Wei, Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National's Congress; Liu Guixiang, Deputy Ministerial-level Full-time Member of the Adjudication Committee and Second-Class Justice of the Supreme People's Court; Shengming, Deputy Procurator-General and Second-Class Chief Procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate; Yang Weilin, Vice Minister of Public Security; and Zeng, Vice Minister of Justice, introduced the progress in advancing the comprehensive rule of law and answered reporters' questions. Working together with one heart to shoulder the mission, and ahead with vigor to write a new chapter. "We will always adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law as our guide, unwaveringly uphold the Party's, adhere to a people-centered approach, and persist in the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. We will earnestly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee carefully organize the implementation of the Outline of the '15th Five-Year Plan' and the Plan for Building a Rule-of-Law China, pay greater attention to the between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability, pay greater attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice, comprehensively advance scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial administration justice, and universal law-abidingness, comprehensively advance the rule of law in all aspects of national work, fully leverage the safeguarding role of the rule of law in consolidating the, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term, strive to build a more complete socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics and a higher-level socialist rule-of- state, and open up a new situation in the construction of a rule-of-law China," said Teng Jiguo.

Enacting good

Good laws are the prerequisite for good governance. Huang Wei introduced that, as of now, the legislative plan of the Standing Committee of the 4th National People's Congress is progressing smoothly. Among them, a total of 79 first-category projects proposed for deliberation during the term have been completed, with 5 of them finished, representing a completion rate of 73.4%. Other legislative projects are also being advanced in an orderly manner. "According to the requirement of 'strengthening legislative planning' in the '15th Five-Year Plan' outline, we will focus more on the synergy between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability, place greater emphasis on safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice. Through thorough research and demonstration, extensively listening to legislative project suggestions from all parties, and especially by carefully studying and sorting out opinions and suggestions of National People's Congress deputies on legislative projects, we will scientifically arrange legislative projects to provide strong legal support for the smooth implementation of the '15th FiveYear Plan' outline," Huang Wei said.

In recent years, government legislation has played an important role in safeguarding high-quality economic and social development and advancing Chinese-style modernization Wu Zeng introduced that, as the rule-of-law department of the State Council, the Ministry of Justice has continuously enriched legislative forms, actively applied "small, fast, flexible" and "small-cut" legislative models to achieve rapid legislative responses, and promoted the revision of the Food Safety Law, the issuance of regulations on international cruise ship port calls supplies, the State Council's provisions on the handling of foreign-related intellectual property disputes, and the revision of the International Maritime Regulations and other administrative regulations; it also conducted the largest-scale centralized cleanup of all 600-plus current administrative regulations, and around institutional reform, transformation of government functions, and improvement of the business environment, it revised 8 laws and regulations in 7 batches of packages and abolished 28... "In 2026, the Ministry of Justice will comprehensively strengthen government legislative work to a strong rule-of-law guarantee for a good start to the '15th Five-Year Plan'." Wu Zeng further introduced that, for example, it will formulate the on the Construction of a Unified National Market to break through the bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the construction of a unified national market with rigid regulations and systems; promote scientific and technological innovation, advance construction of a strong science and technology nation, and accelerate the comprehensive legislation on the healthy development of artificial intelligence and legislation on the low-altitude economy; safeguard and improve people's, and formulate and implement administrative regulations in areas such as water supply, medicine, housing safety, medical care, and road transport; further strengthen foreign-related legislation, safeguard high- opening-up, revise laws and regulations such as the Customs Law and the Regulations on the Administration of Foreign Labor Cooperation, steadily expand institutional opening-up, and safeguard China's, security, and development interests.

Strong Guarantee The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes developing new quality productive forces and promoting the deep integration of scientific and innovation with industrial innovation. How will the people's courts serve and guarantee the realization of this goal? "The Supreme People's Court will continuously improve the judicial protection for innovation, refine the appellate trial mechanism for intellectual property cases, strengthen the national technical investigation talent pool, unify adjudication standards, and enhance the professionalism and credibility of intellectual property case trials We will strengthen the full-chain protection of intellectual property, improve the coordination mechanism between intellectual property administrative law enforcement and judicial adjudication, and promote comprehensive governance in the field of intellectual property Liu Guixiang. How will the people's courts help achieve high-quality economic and social development through judicial adjudication? Liu Guixiang provided an introduction from such as making every effort to safeguard national security and social stability, continuously strengthening judicial protection for people's livelihoods, continuously creating a law-based business environment, and promoting the marketbased allocation of factors in accordance with the law. He stated that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the people's courts will strive to forge a, clean, and responsible judicial team, deepen the reform of the judicial system, standardize the operation of judicial power, strengthen constraints and supervision, and further implement and improve the judicial responsibility.

Fully and accurately implementing the criminal policy of combining leniency with severity is conducive to punishing crimes according to law, effectively preventing crimes, and promoting crime. It is also an important guarantee for continuing to write a new chapter of the "two great miracles" of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. During the period of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, how will procuratorial organs further fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency with severity, punish according to law, and safeguard national and social security and stability? "On the one hand, we will not relax the strict approach. On the other hand, we will be according to law for crimes with relatively minor circumstances, promoting the unity of crime punishment and crime governance," said Miao Shengming. Currently, under the overall coordination of the Central Political and Affairs Commission, the Supreme People's Procuratorate is working with relevant departments to research and draft relevant guiding documents, promoting the improvement of specific law enforcement and judicial standards for lenency and severity in different types of cases, and effectively enhancing the coordination, consistency, and effectiveness of policy implementation. Optimizing law enforcement

To create a favorable rule-of-law environment to safeguard the smooth start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, measures have public security organs introduced around strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement? Yang Weilin stated that public security organs have introduced numerous measures covering four aspects: continuously the system of public security laws and regulations, continuously tightening the law enforcement supervision and management system, continuously promoting the quality and efficiency of law enforcement and case handling, and continuously enhancing law enforcement capabilities of the public security force. A total of 3,266 law enforcement and case handling management centers have been established nationwide; 102,00 legal officers have been deployed to grassroots law enforcement units to monitor all cases and police reports daily, building the "first line of defense" for law enforcement supervision and management;, 1.968 million police officers nationwide have obtained basic-level law enforcement qualifications, and 77,000 have obtained advanced law enforcement qualifications... These cards are exceptionally impressive. Since last year, public security organs have deployed and carried out a special action to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises, vigorously rectifying prominent problems in such law. What are the results so far? "During the special action, a total of 57,000 law enforcement problems involving enterprises were investigated and corrected, seized worth 1.38 billion yuan was released, 2.22 billion yuan in detained funds was returned, 199,000 frozen accounts were legally or unfrozen, and 8.98 billion yuan in funds was released." Yang Weilin provided solid evidence with a set of data. "Next, the Ministry Public Security will thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, further improve long-term mechanisms, continuously investigate and correct prominent problems, constantly enhance the level of law enforcement involving enterprises, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of handling such cases, and continuously introduce measures to optimize convenience for the public and enterprises, effectively promoting high-quality and social development," Yang Weilin said.

Promoting Good Governance Comprehensive Governance Centers are an important platform for advancing the construction of a Peaceful China and important carrier for upholding and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era. Teng Jiguo introduced that currently, 2,849 county-level Governance Centers have been built nationwide, achieving full coverage of county-level administrative divisions. In 2025, 9.764 million conflicts and disputes were resolved to the law, and "go to the Comprehensive Governance Center for help" is gradually becoming a consensus across society. The Outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan has made arrangements for advancing the standardized construction of Comprehensive Governance Centers. What are the work considerations of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission? "We need to further clarify the positioning powers and responsibilities." Teng Jiguo stated. We will push functional departments to take the main responsibility for resolving conflicts and disputes, and strengthen the responsibility of Comprehensive Governance Centers for advancement and resident departments for substantive resolution. For matters with unclear responsibilities, matters involving multiple departments, and matters where parties still have objections after legal procedures are completed, the Comprehensive Governance will act as the final coordinator, ensuring that the public only needs to "visit one place at most" to resolve conflicts and disputes. Teng Jiguo also pointed out that should further strengthen technology empowerment, implement "one case, one code" and "one code for all services" for accepted conflicts and disputes, promote horizontal data interconnection among relevant functional and vertical data integration across provincial, municipal, county, and township levels, and enhance the capabilities of conflict and dispute resolution as well as social security risk assessment and early warning. yers are an indispensable professional force for the comprehensive rule of law. The "15th Five-Year Plan" puts forward clear requirements for deeply advancing the construction of a rule--law society and developing the legal service team, including lawyers. What are the arrangements and deployments of the Ministry of Justice? "The Ministry of Justice is continuing to put effort the 'guidance' and 'cultivation' of the team. In recent years, the Ministry of Justice has comprehensively strengthened the political guidance and industry party building of the lawyer team conducted training for the lawyer team through a combination of online and offline methods, routinely carried out professional skill training, professional ethics and practice discipline education, and promoted the overall improvement of quality of the lawyer team; implemented the Western Training Program for a Thousand Lawyers, organized more than 5,000 newly recruited lawyers to practice in grassroots judicial offices, and the lawyer team to practice the people-centered purpose in their practice." Wu Zeng introduced that in the next step, we will study and improve the normalized education and training system for the team, firmly hold the "anchor" of ideological and political thought, and enhance the "hard power" of professional quality; improve the support mechanism for young lawyers, increase the cultivation lawyer talents in emerging and urgently needed fields, and build a platform for the vast number of lawyers to grow, progress, and display their talents. Coordinating the advancement of practiceguarantees" and "standardization", and reaching a new level in "expanding capacity" and "improving quality" of services... Wu Zeng stated that during the "1th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Justice will continue to strengthen the construction of the lawyer team, optimize the lawyer practice environment, and effectively play the functional role of lawyer team in the comprehensive rule of law and the advancement of Chinese-style modernization. (Outlook New Era）