Qin Huang, president of China University of Political Science and Law and a member of the expert group on the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents of the Ministry of Education, said that after the promulgation of the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (20 10-2020), two projects were implemented in the training of talents in higher education. One is the "Experimental Plan for Training Top-notch Innovative Talents in Basic Subjects" (Everest Plan), and the other is the "Excellent Engineer Training Plan" launched by the Ministry of Education in the field of engineering education. Next, in the field of social sciences, the Ministry of Education plans to first implement the training plan for outstanding talents in law.
Focusing on the core task of improving the quality of personnel training, the "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan" aims at the problems and challenges faced by law higher education: focusing on improving the quality of legal talents, focusing on improving their practical ability, increasing the training of applied and compound legal talents, and cultivating and bringing up a group of outstanding legal talents who meet the needs of building a socialist country ruled by law.
The main tasks initially included in the draft document include: innovating the joint training mechanism between universities and practice departments; Implementing the innovation of classified training mode of legal talents; Strengthen the construction of teaching staff; Optimize the curriculum system, strengthen practical teaching links, and promote the reform of teaching methods.
In terms of training mechanism, one of the key tasks of the Excellence Plan is to innovate the "joint training mechanism between universities and practical departments". On the basis of this working mechanism, actively promote the construction of "double-qualified" teachers. Another key point is to explore the mechanism of "joint training at home and abroad". On may 26th, 20 12, a working conference on the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents was held in Beijing, which was jointly organized by the the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Municipal Law Committee and the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). Representatives from the court system, procuratorial system and universities discussed the training plan and scheme of legal talents.
At the meeting, the steering committee and expert committee of the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents composed of responsible comrades from public security, law departments and universities were formally established, and a large number of legal education practice bases and more than 100 outstanding legal talents education and training bases jointly established by more than 20 universities including Peking University and China University of Political Science and Law with courts, procuratorates, law firms, enterprises and institutions at all levels will be officially launched. "This move marks that China has opened a new situation in the field of legal talent training in which the education and employment departments jointly train talents."
Du Zhanyuan, member of the Party Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, said at the meeting: "Implementing the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents is an urgent need to accelerate the construction of a socialist country ruled by law, effectively improve the quality of legal talents training, and gradually enhance China's right to speak in international legal affairs." Minister Du Zhanyuan pointed out that to organize and implement this plan well, we should adhere to classified training and strive to cultivate applied and compound legal talents; Innovate the talent training mechanism and focus on stimulating the internal vitality of higher law education; Solidly promote the concept of socialist rule of law "into teaching materials, into classrooms, into students' minds" and strive to cultivate builders and defenders of the cause of socialist rule of law; Strengthen practical teaching and strive to improve the practical ability and comprehensive quality of legal talents; Explore the implementation of the "double thousand plan" of mutual employment between universities and legal practice departments, and strive to build a high-level team of law teachers.
Jiang Wei, deputy secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Committee, stressed that it is necessary to strengthen cooperation between universities and judicial practice departments, promote the combination of teaching and practice, and advocate the docking of theoretical research and judicial practice. The Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Public Security should fully cooperate with the Ministry of Education to organize and lead the "Double Thousand-Year Plan" and the construction of practice teaching bases for legal education. The Central Political and Legal Committee, together with the Ministry of Education, will discover and establish a number of advanced models in time, organize experience exchange, ensure the expected results, and carry out this work in a deep and lasting way.
This congress marks the opening of a new situation in the field of law in China, in which education and employing departments jointly cultivate talents. At the meeting, the steering committee and expert committee of "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan" composed of education and public security law were formally established. More than 20 universities, including China University of Political Science and Law and Peking University, will build a number of legal education practice bases and 100 training bases for outstanding legal talents with courts, procuratorates, law firms and enterprises at all levels. About 200 representatives from the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Commerce, education departments of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and universities attended the meeting. "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan" aims to train high-quality legal talents to meet the needs of building a country ruled by law in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The Ministry of Education held the establishment and the first working meeting of the expert advisory group and expert working group of the "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan" in Beijing in April, 201/KLOC-0. Lin Huiqing, a member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Lin Huiqing pointed out that since the reform and opening up, the reform and development of law education in colleges and universities in China has made remarkable achievements. As of April, 20 1 1, there were 623 universities in China offering undergraduate courses in law, with more than 290,000 undergraduates. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, China's legal education has trained more than 360,000 law undergraduates, which has provided strong intellectual support and talent guarantee for the country's economic and social development, especially for building a socialist country ruled by law. However, there are still some problems to be solved urgently in the training of legal education talents in colleges and universities in China, and the connection with legal practice needs to be strengthened, the training mode needs to be reformed and the quality of talent training needs to be improved.
The implementation of the "excellent legal talents education and training plan" is an important measure to improve the quality of legal talents training in China, and it is an urgent need to comprehensively implement the basic strategy of "ruling the country according to law", implement the outline of education planning, and train talents who are in short supply of law.
To organize and implement the "excellent legal talents education and training plan", we should focus on solving four problems:
The first is to establish national standards for the training of legal talents. According to the training objectives of all kinds of high-quality law enforcement and judicial professionals, the classification training standards are studied and formulated, which fully reflects the requirements of practical departments for the quality of legal personnel training.
The second is to reform the training mode of legal talents. According to the foundation and characteristics of law schools in colleges and universities, we should make overall planning, build different types of excellent legal talent education and training bases, and explore the training modes of "joint training between schools and practice departments" and "joint training at home and abroad".
The third is to build a team of law teachers. Through the establishment of mutual employment system between universities and practice departments, young backbone teachers are encouraged and supported to study abroad, and a team of "double-qualified" law teachers with broad international vision, solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience is established.
The fourth is to build a practical platform for legal education. Taking the second phase of "Undergraduate Teaching Quality and Teaching Reform Project in Colleges and Universities" as the carrier, we will cooperate with the legal practice department to implement the "Practice Platform Construction Project" for outstanding legal talents.
Strengthening close contact with practical departments is the key and breakthrough of this plan. It is necessary to strengthen communication with relevant ministries and industries, clarify ideas, identify the combination of talent training and industry demand, clarify the correlation between professional education and professional qualifications, reform the training mode of legal talents, improve students' practical ability, realize the combination of training and application, and achieve a win-win situation for education and industry. The expert group should make full use of professional expertise to guide and promote the implementation of the "excellent legal talent education and training plan".
The Expert Advisory Group of "Excellent Legal Talents Education and Training Plan" is composed of responsible comrades from the Central Political and Legal Committee, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and other relevant departments and well-known experts and scholars with high academic status in the field of legal education. Its main task is to study and put forward opinions and suggestions on the formulation and implementation of the "excellent legal talents education and training plan", and to demonstrate and evaluate relevant important policies and important reform issues. The expert working group consists of front-line experts and scholars engaged in legal education and teaching and responsible comrades of relevant administrative departments. Its main task is to study and formulate work plans, carry out investigations and studies, and promote the implementation of planned work.