Xiao Yang

Xiao Yang

Xiao Yang (August 1938 April 19, 2019), male, Han nationality, from Heyuan, Guangdong Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1966. He began to work in January 1962. Graduated from Law Department of Renmin University of China, university culture. He is an outstanding leader of China's political and legal front and was the president of the Supreme People's court.

Xiao Yang died of illness in Beijing on April 19, 2019 at the age of 81.

Life of the characters

Comrade Xiao Yang was born in August 1938 in Heyuan, Guangdong Province. As a boy, he studied in private school primary school and junior high school in his hometown. Later, he studied in Huiyang senior high school in Guangdong Province. From 1957 to 1962, he studied in the law department of Renmin University of China. after graduating from university in January 1962, he obeyed the organization's arrangement and went to teach in the political and legal Cadre School of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In August of the same year, he was transferred to the Public Security Bureau of Qujiang County, Guangdong Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1966. Since 1969, he has successively served as the director of the Propaganda Department of Qujiang County Party committee of Guangdong Province, the director and deputy director of the county Party committee office. since 1975, he has successively served as secretary of the Party committee, member of the Standing Committee of the county Party committee and director of the office of Longgui commune in Qujiang County, Guangdong Province. He is keen minded, pioneering and enterprising. He pays attention to investigation and research, studies scientific farming with grass-roots people, promotes high-quality hybrid rice, and leads local people to build hydropower stations. He once represented Longgui commune in Qujiang County to attend the national commendation Conference for advanced agricultural units. Since 1981, he has successively served as secretary of Wujiang district Party committee of Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, and Deputy Secretary of Qingyuan Prefecture Party committee of Guangdong Province. In 1983, Xiao Yang was appointed deputy chief procurator and Deputy Secretary of the Party group of the people's Procuratorate of Guangdong Province. In 1986, he was appointed chief procurator and Secretary of the Party group of the people's Procuratorate of Guangdong Province. He boldly innovated and strongly advocated reform. He proposed a series of new ideas, such as procuratorial work should serve economic construction, procuratorial organs should support and protect scientific and technological personnel by performing their duties according to law, and creatively proposed measures to postpone arrest, realizing the organic unity of protecting production and punishing and saving criminals. In 1987, to explore the suspect of easy access to the mainland and absconding with public funds, we should open a green channel for the joint efforts of Guangdong and Hong Kong to fight corruption. In 1988, he supported and organized the Shenzhen Municipal People's Procuratorate to set up an economic crime reporting center, which played a leading and exemplary role in setting up a reporting center for the national procuratorial system. In 1989, the first anti-corruption and bribery Bureau of national procuratorial organs was established in Guangdong, which greatly promoted the investigation of corruption and bribery cases. He insisted on principles, dealt with affairs in a timely and decisive manner, held many meetings to convey the instructions of the Central Committee and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, put forward strict requirements to the provincial procurators in a timely manner, and took effective measures to stabilize the team and crack down on all kinds of serious criminal activities. In 1990, Xiao Yang served as deputy chief procurator, member of the party leading group and member of the Procuratorial Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In 1992, he served as deputy chief procurator, deputy secretary of the party leading group and member of the Procuratorial Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. He is good at studying new situations and solving new problems, has excellent legal and policy level and organizational leadership ability, has done a lot of research and demonstration, and presided over the drafting of the anti-corruption and bribery law (Draft) on the basis of widely listening to the opinions of all parties, which has been widely praised. In 1993, Xiao Yang served as Minister of justice, Secretary of the party leading group, member of the central political and Law Commission, and member of the Central Committee for the comprehensive management of public security. He took an active part in and promoted the transformation of the concept of national governance from "the rule of law" to "the rule of law", proposed to the central government to hold lectures on the central legal system, and effectively promoted the implementation of the strategy of ruling the country by law. He put forward the idea of "great service" for reform and opening up, economic construction and social stability, and vigorously promoted the reform of lawyer system, notarization system and people's mediation system. In order to enable the poor, the weak and the disabled to afford lawsuits and obtain necessary legal relief, in 1994, he proposed to establish and implement China's legal aid system and actively carried out pilot projects in various places to provide legal aid for the broad masses of the people, which was widely praised by all sectors of society. He also promoted the formulation of the first prison law of the people's Republic of China, making important contributions to the realization of the legalization and standardized management of China's prisons and the creation of modern civilized prisons. In March 1998 and March 2003, Comrade Xiao Yang was twice elected president of the Supreme People's court at the first session of the Ninth National People's Congress and the first session of the Tenth National People's Congress, and served as secretary of the Party group of the Supreme People's court, member of the central political and Law Commission, member of the central anti corruption coordination group, and deputy director of the Central Committee for comprehensive management of public security. During his 10 years in charge of the work of the Supreme People's court, he United and led a group of Party members to actively explore and innovate, comprehensively promote judicial reform, and earnestly implement the goal of building a fair, efficient and authoritative socialist judicial system reform with Chinese characteristics. He advocated the establishment of modern judicial concept, suggested that the central government should implement the criminal policy of Combining Leniency with severity, and defined "Leniency should be lenient, severity should be severe, combination of leniency and severity, punishment should be the crime" as the guiding principle of criminal justice. Under his promotion, on January 1, 2007, the approval power of death penalty cases was officially returned to the Supreme People's court for unified exercise, ending the 26 year history of devolution of approval power of some death penalty cases. He attached great importance to the top-level design, promoted the promulgation of the five-year reform outline of the two people's courts, and completed a total of 89 reform measures, laying a solid foundation for the establishment and improvement of the socialist judicial system. He attached great importance to the construction of the people's court team and personnel training, and proposed to strengthen the construction of judges' professionalism. Through strict professional access, improving professional skills, improving professional supervision, strengthening professional security, cultivating professional ethics and other measures, he made great efforts to build a team of people's judges with excellent politics, profound profession, strong guarantee and effective supervision. In 1998, under his promotion, the people's court fully implemented open trial, making it clear that all cases except those involving state secrets, personal privacy and juvenile delinquency stipulated by law and those not to be tried in public as otherwise stipulated by law are subject to open trial, so as to promote justice through openness; litigation costs have been greatly reduced, and a judicial relief system has been explored for better protection The rights of the people and the improvement of people's livelihood. He insisted on reforming and improving the retrial system, the execution system, the case jurisdiction system, the trial committee system, the people's jury system, the juvenile trial system, etc., and made important contributions to strengthening China's socialist democratic legal system and promoting the rule of law. after leaving the leadership post, Comrade Xiao Yang is still very concerned about the development of the cause of the party and the state, the changes in the international and domestic situation, the progress of the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law and the judicial reform, and the sufferings of the people. He actively participates in social activities, makes suggestions and contributions, and fully demonstrates the loyalty of a Communist Party member. Comrade Xiao Yang is a member of the 15th and 16th CPC Central Committee.

The death of a character

At 4:58 on April 19, 2019, Comrade Xiao Yang, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a loyal communist fighter, an outstanding leader of China's political and legal front, and former president of the Supreme People's court, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 81.

Character evaluation

In the revolutionary career of nearly 60 years, comrade Xiao Yang has always strengthened communist ideals and beliefs, persisted in the principle of party spirit, and studied hard in Marx Lenin doctrine, Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", and China's special socialist ideology of Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping in the new era. In particular, since the eighteen Party's Congress, we must resolutely safeguard the core of the general secretary Xi Jinping's Party Central Committee and the core position of the whole party, and resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized leadership of the Party Central Committee. He kept in mind the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, adhered to the people-centered development thought, and always attached great importance to the overall situation of the work of the party and the state. He adheres to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, is good at guiding practice and promoting work by using Marxist standpoint and method, and has superb leadership art and rich experience in political and legal work. He has a high level of policy theory and profound legal theory. He is good at studying new situations, summing up new experiences and solving new problems. He adheres to the principle of democratic centralism, keeps close ties with the masses, respects knowledge and talents, cares for comrades and cherishes cadres. He is good at investigation and research, grasps the overall situation, pays attention to listening to different opinions, and mobilizes and displays the enthusiasm of all aspects. He is optimistic and open-minded, broad-minded, straightforward, approachable, honest, strict in self-discipline, simple in life, strict in family members, children and staff around him, and is admired by the majority of cadres and the masses. Comrade Xiao Yang's life is a life of fighting for the communist ideal, the cause of reform and opening up, and the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law. His death is a great loss to the party and the state as well as to the political and legal front. His revolutionary spirit, noble morality and fine style are always worth learning from. China should of one heart and one mind, keep firmly in mind the mission, unite with one heart and one mind, and strive to win the dream of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, win the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics and achieve China's great rejuvenation in the new era. Xi Jinping is the core of the party. (Xinhua editorial)

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