On April 27, 2018, the second meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress passed the list of removals from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Xu Xianming was removed from the position of Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and member of the Procuratorate Committee.

Xu Xianming is known as a human rights scholar and civilian jurist.This resignation from the position of Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme Procuratorate is the fifth important job adjustment in the five years since he entered the official career.

In October 2013, Xu Xianming resigned from his post as the president of Shandong University and transferred from a university to a career as a full-time deputy director (deputy ministerial level) of the Office of the Central Social Management Comprehensive Governance Committee.

One year later, in October 2014, the Central Social Management Comprehensive Management Committee was restored to the Central Social Security Comprehensive Management Committee, and Xu Xianming was also transferred from the full-time deputy director of the Central Social Management Comprehensive Management Committee Office to the Central Social Security Comprehensive Management Committee Office Executive Deputydirector.

In April 2015, Xu Xianming took up the post of deputy secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Committee.In February 2017, Xu Xianming served as a member of the party group and deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Xu Xianming was removed from the position on April 27 after serving as the deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate for a year and two months.

It is worth noting that on March 18, the Sixth Plenary Session of the First Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. 159 candidates were elected as members of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress.clearly listed.

The next day, March 19, the First Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress approved the list of the chairman, vice-chairmen, and members of the National People's Congress's Supervision and Judicial Committee, and Xu Xianming was appointed as the vice-chairman of the Supervision and Judicial Committee.

Zhu Lijia, a professor at the National School of Administration, explained that according to regulations, members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress are not allowed to hold positions in state administrative organs, judicial organs, and procuratorial organs.Our country's constitution stipulates that state administrative organs, judicial organs, and procuratorial organs are all created by the people's congress, responsible to it, and subject to its supervision.Therefore, the relationship between the National People's Congress and the government and the two courts is a supervisory and supervised relationship. That is to say, one person cannot serve in the National People's Congress and the two courts at the same time.Therefore, Xu Xianming, who has served as a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and vice chairman of the Supervision and Judiciary Committee, cannot continue to serve as the deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate.

Xu Xianming was born in April 1957, a 1978 student of the Law Department of Jilin University. After obtaining a master's degree in law, he taught at Shandong University in 1985.At Shanda University, he was promoted twice. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and professor in 1992. After that, he successively served as director of teaching and research section, dean of department, dean of graduate school, and vice president.Since then, he has been at the helm of two prestigious schools one after another: from 2001 to 2008, he served as the president of China University of Political Science and Law; from 2008 to 2013, he served as the president of Shandong University.

During his work in colleges and universities, Xu Xianming has devoted himself to the research of modern Chinese legal thoughts, the principle of the rule of law, frontier issues of legal philosophy, human rights theory, constitutional theory, etc., and published many human rights theoretical works such as human rights research and right to life theory.Human rights research was included in the first set of human rights theory series in China; The Theory of the Right to Survival was also awarded the first prize of the Youth Social Science Award, and was regarded by foreign politicians and scholars as a theoretical explanation of the white paper on the status quo of human rights in China, which attracted the attention of the international human rights field.

According to reports, when the constitution was revised in 2003, Xu Xianming, as the chief expert of the research group, presided over the research group to submit three proposals in order to promote the country's respect and protection of human rights into the constitution, expressing the hope that the constitution could be included in the preamble, general outline or specific civil rights chaptersinvolved in this article.

During his tenure as the president of China University of Political Science and Law and Shandong University, Xu Xianming pushed a number of reforms, cutting off self-examination training courses, enrollment reforms, and allocation of enrollment quotas according to the proportion of students, etc. Some reforms made him fall into a vortex of doubts.However, some media commented that no matter how loud the opposition was, it was finally changed.

Xu Xianming also stepped onto the platform of Zhongnanhai.

On November 27, 2007, the Political Bureau of the 17th CPC Central Committee took the first collective study with the theme of improving the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and fully implementing the basic strategy of ruling the country by law. The then general secretary Hu Jintao presided over the study.

Xu Xianming, one of the two lecturers in this group study, talked about his opinions and suggestions on building a socialist country ruled by law.

Resume of Xu Xianming

Xu Xianming, male, Han nationality, born in April 1957, native of Laixi, Shandong, joined the Communist Party of China in May 1985, started working in July 1974, postgraduate degree, doctorate in law, professor and doctoral supervisor.Former Deputy Director of the Law Department of Shandong University, Dean and Director of the Law School of Shandong University, Assistant to the President of Shandong University and Dean of the Law School, Director of the Law Department, Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School of Shandong University, President of China University of Political Science and Law, ShandongUniversity president (deputy ministerial level), full-time deputy director of the Central Comprehensive Management Office, deputy secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Committee.

In February 2017, he served as a member of the party group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, deputy chief prosecutor, member of the procuratorial committee, and a second-level prosecutor.

Representative of the 10th, 11th and 12th National People's Congress, member of the Law Committee of the 10th and 11th National People's Congress, member of the Standing Committee of the 11th and 12th National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Law Committee of the 12th National People's Congress.