The Release of the Research Results of the Project on the Primary Responsibility for Comprehensively Strengthening Party Discipline and the First Forum of the Think Tank on Comprehensively Strengthening Party Discipline (Shenzhen Guangming) were held in Beijing on June 19. 2019. The meeting was sponsored by CASS Law Institute, CASS Institute of International Law, and the Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City, and organized by the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City, China Anti-Corruption Research Center of CASS, and the Department of the Rule of Law Strategy of CASS Law Institute and CASS Institute of International Law and attended by over 60 representatives, including officials from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Party Committee of Shenzhen City and the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City, scholars from CASS, Peking University, and Renmin University of China, and journalists from the People’s Daily, China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News, Legal Daily, People’s Forum, CASS News, iolaw.org.cn/, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, and Shenzhen Economic Daily.
The meeting was divided into three parts. At the first part, the release of research results, Professor Chen Su, Director of CASS Law Institute, Mr. Li Dingwen, Member of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Party Committee of Shenzhen City, and Mr. Wang Hongbin, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City, each gave a speech in which they released the result of the research project on the Primary Responsibility for Comprehensively Strengthening Party Discipline – Measures of CPC Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City for the Implementation of the System of Primary Responsibility for Comprehensively Strengthening Party Discipline.
Afterwards, Professor Mo Jihong, Director of CASS Institute of International Law, declared the establishment of the Think Tank on Comprehensively Strengthening Party Discipline (Guangming District of Shenzhen) and announced the list of experts of the Think Tank. The list includes Professor Ma Huaide, the President of the China University of Political Science, Law, Professor Jiang Ming’an from the Law School of Peking University and 16 other famous legal experts.
The second part of the meeting was a news briefing presided over by Ms. Wu Min, the Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City. Firstly, Professor Mo Jihong, Director of CASS Institute of International Law and the Leader of the Joint Project Team, gave a comprehensive introduction to the background, the process of formulation and main content of the Measures. Then Mr. Yao Wensheng, Secretary of the Disciplinary Inspection Commission of the Party Committee of Guangming District of Shenzhen City, introduced the main content and innovations of the Measures. Next, members of the project team answered the questions raised by journalists from various mass media relating to the Measures.
In the last part of the meeting, the First Forum of the Think Tank on Comprehensively Strengthen Party Discipline (Shenzhen Guangming) presided over by Professor Mo Jihong, scholars and experts from various research institutions and universities, including CASS, Peking University, Renmin University of China, gave speeches and carried out discussions on various issues around the topic of strengthening Party discipline and intra-Party supervision.