context: To centralise coordination over grassroots affairs, the Party formed the Central Social Work Department in 2023, streamlining local oversight via Party-building. Especially, the Party hopes to retain control over economic organisations. Following up, Xi Jinping 习近平 issued major directives at the November Central Social Work Meeting, calling for expanding the Party’s clout over emerging sectors. At the same meeting, Cai Qi 蔡奇 Party Secretariat secretary pointed to the need to strengthen the ‘maple bridge experience’, echoing the official call for pre-emptive risk prevention.
There is a need to standardise Comprehensive Social Order Governance Centre build-up, asserts Chen Wenqing 陈文清 CPC Politburo member and Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission secretary, realising Xi Jinping’s 习近平 major directives on developing the New Era ‘maple bridge experience’.
Chen argues for
- correctly dealing with contradictions among the people under new circumstances
- standardising
- conflict resolution and prevention
- comprehensive social order governance
Chen notes that Comprehensive Social Order Governance Centres are a major platform that
- embodies political and legal responsibilities
- coordinate departments to realise their duty according to the law
- advance conflict and dispute prevention
- boost social order risk control
To standardise their development, there is a need to
- balance the four factors below
- resources centralisation
- benefiting the masses
- ruling by law
- valuing practical effects
- coordinate and harmonise functions of
- litigation service centres
- procuratorial service centres
- public legal service centres
- petition service centres
- create a holistic procedure for registering, reviewing and resolving complaints and demands
- concentrate conflict resolution services into one place
- guarantee that every demand could be dealt with according to law
Chen urges Political and Legal Affairs Commissions on the local level to further cooperate with Comprehensive Social Order Governance Centres
- facilitate resource sharing
- build collaborative platforms
- merge digital data
- coordinate various centres to realise their legal responsibilities
- resolve resolutions on the grassroots level
- nip any turbulences at the bud
- allow the masses to feel that justice and fairness are around
The following officials attended the meeting
- Zhang Xiaohong 王小洪 Ministry of Public Security minister
- Zhang Jun 张军 Supreme People’s Court president
- Ying Yong 应勇 Supreme People’s Procuratorate procurator-general