Luo Dongchuan was appointed as the vice president of the Supreme Court, and He Xiaoron

Luo Dongchuan and He Xiaorong (right)

Supreme Court leadership continues to adjust.According to news from NPC.com, on the afternoon of August 31, the Fifth Session of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress voted to appoint Luo Dongchuan as the vice president of the Supreme Court, a member of the judicial committee, and a judge; He Xiaorong was appointed as the second circuit court judge.President, Hu Yunteng was removed from the post of President of the Second Circuit Court.In late July, Luo Dongchuan became a member of the party group of the Supreme Court, and He Xiaorong was promoted to a full-time member at the deputy ministerial level of the Judicial Committee.

Luo Dongchuan is 52 years old (born in October 1965), from Chongqing.He successively graduated from Peking University, Wuhan University and Peking University with bachelor, master and doctor degrees in law.After graduating from the law department of Peking University in June 1986, Luo Dongchuan was assigned to the Beijing Higher Court as a clerk. In 1993, he participated in the establishment of the earliest intellectual property tribunal in the Chinese court system—the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Beijing Intermediate Court.In December 2000, Luo Dongchuan was promoted to be the vice president of the Third Civil Tribunal of the Supreme Court. Since then, he has served in the Supreme Court for a long time, successively serving as deputy director of the research office, director of the China Institute of Applied Law, and deputy director of the Political Department.Became the chief judge of the Fourth Civil Tribunal.

Luo Dongchuan has high attainments in the fields of civil and commercial law and intellectual property law, and has presided over a number of cases with wide influence at home and abroad.He has participated in the compilation of many books, including the review and analysis of famous intellectual property cases, intellectual property trial practice, intellectual property trial guidance and reference, etc., and published dozens of intellectual property professional papers.

In July 2015, Luo Dongchuan, who was not yet 50 years old, was transferred to the discipline inspection system and was promoted to the director of the case trial office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and became a deputy ministerial cadre.The case trial room is one of the 27 functional departments within the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection before the reform of the supervision system.wait.In April 2017, Luo Dongchuan parachuted into Xinjiang and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Autonomous Region Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission. In October 2017, he was elected as a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.With the advancement of the reform of the supervisory system, in January 2018, Luo Dongchuan was elected as the first director of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Supervisory Committee until he returned to Beijing to assume his new post.

He Xiaorong, who took up the post at the same time as Luo Dongchuan, is 54 years old (born in November 1963), from Zizhou, Shaanxi, with a doctorate in jurisprudence. He has switched between various legal professions such as scholars, lawyers, and judges.He was admitted to Northwest University of Political Science and Law (now Northwest University of Political Science and Law) in September 1980. After graduating from a bachelor’s degree, he continued to study for a master’s degree in comparative law. After graduating in July 1987, he stayed at the school to teach.In 2000, he received a doctorate degree in law from Renmin University of China, and then taught at the School of Humanities, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. In the same year, he participated in the Supreme Court's public examination for senior judges and was admitted. The next year, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court.

After 2006, He Xiaorong successively served as the director of the office of the president of the Supreme Court, the deputy director of the office, and the vice president of the first civil court.Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chinese courts have embarked on a new round of judicial reform.During this process, He Xiaorong repeatedly took key positions. He successively served as the director of the Office of the Leading Group for Judicial Reform of the Supreme Court, the chief judge of the Administrative Tribunal, and the chief judge of the Second Civil Tribunal. He was a participant and witness of a series of macro reforms.At the beginning of 2018, He Xiaorong accepted an exclusive interview with Caixin on how to improve the bankruptcy administrator system, the bankruptcy of affiliated companies and other issues of concern to the industry.

He Xiaorong served as the president of the Second Circuit Court this time, and was replaced by Hu Yunteng (born in September 1955), who was about to turn 63 years old.Hu Yunteng is a native of Huoqiu, Anhui Province. He was born in a law class and has been engaged in criminal law research in the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for eight years.In 2002, Hu Yunteng was transferred to the deputy director of the Supreme Court Research Office. Since then, he has successively served as the director of the China Institute of Applied Law and the director of the Supreme Court Research Office. In April 2014, he was promoted to a full-time member of the Judicial Committee at the deputy ministerial level.First President of the Circuit Court.

Hu Yunteng has both theoretical knowledge and practical experience, and participated in the drafting of relevant documents for the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee.As the presiding judge of the Second Circuit Court, the retrial of Nie Shubin and the retrial of the Jilin Sun Brothers involved in gangsters, which he presided over, attracted national attention.In September 2017, Hu Yunteng accepted an exclusive interview with Caixin, emphasizing the need to respect and protect human rights throughout the entire process and every link of criminal proceedings, so as to effectively prevent unjust, false and wrongly decided cases from the source.

Since June 2018, the leadership of the Supreme Court has undergone frequent adjustments: at the end of June, Shen Deyong stepped down as executive vice-president at the ministerial level, and Yang Wanming returned from the head of the Beijing High Court to serve as the vice-president of the Supreme Court.In July, Xu Jiaxin, who had served as the director of the Political Department of the Supreme Court for five and a half years, was parachuted into acting as the acting president of the Jilin Provincial Higher Court.A ministerial-level full-time member, Luo Dongchuan returned to Beijing to serve as a member of the party group of the Supreme Court; at the end of August, Luo Dongchuan and He Xiaorong took up their posts again.

At present, there are many senior officials born in the 1960s in the leadership of the Supreme Court, including party secretary and president Zhou Qiang (born in April 1960), vice president Tao Kaiyuan (born in March 1964), party member and director of the Political Department Ma Shizhong (born in 1962)Luo Dongchuan (born in October 1965), member of the party group and vice president, Liu Haiquan (born in October 1964), member of the party group and vice president of the discipline inspection team, Yang Wanming (born in January 1961),Liu Guixiang (born in March 1963), a full-time deputy ministerial member of the judicial committee, and He Xiaorong (born November 1963), a deputy ministerial full-time member of the judicial committee and president of the Second Circuit Court, among whom Luo Dongchuan is the first post-65 generation.■