Hu Yunteng has worked in the Supreme Court for more than 16 years, and participated in the drafting of the documents of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee; Li Rulin, deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate, resigned on the same day, and both of them were 63 years old
Hu Yunteng, the second-level justice who presided over the correction of the Nie Shubin case and a full-time member of the Supreme Court Judicial Committee, resigned.Li Rulin, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate, resigned at the same time. Both of them have reached the age of 63.
According to NPC.com, the Sixth Session of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress, which closed on October 26, passed a vote to remove Hu Yunteng from his position as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme Court and Li Rulin as Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme Procuratorate.
Hu Yunteng was born in September 1955 in Huoqiu, Anhui Province, and graduated from a law school.In 1979, Hu Yunteng entered Anhui Normal University. In 1983, he was admitted to Southwest University of Political Science and Law (later renamed Southwest University of Political Science and Law) to study for a master's degree in criminal law. In 1986, he taught in the law department of Anhui University. He entered Renmin University of China for four years to study for a doctoral degree in criminal law.
In 1994, Hu Yunteng graduated with a Ph.D. and went to the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to engage in research work.In 2002, Hu Yunteng was transferred to be the deputy director of the research office of the Supreme Court. Since then, he has successively served as the director of the China Institute of Applied Law and the director of the research office of the Supreme Court.leadership, becoming the first president of the Supreme Court's Second Circuit in December of that year.On August 31, 2018, Hu Yunteng no longer served as the president of the Second Circuit Court, and stepped down as a full-time member of the Judicial Committee two months later.
Hu Yunteng is a scholar-type justice. He has published more than 100 academic papers and nearly 40 monographs. Among them, the general theory of death penalty and the basic theoretical research of death penalty are quite important in China's death penalty research works.During his tenure in the Supreme Court, he participated in the drafting of documents related to the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He has been a participant and witness of judicial reform in Chinese courts for more than ten years.
In the five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, courts at all levels have corrected a total of 39 major wrongful criminal cases, and the Nie Shubin case is the only case where the Supreme Court acquitted him after retrial.On June 20, 2016, the Supreme Court decided to form a collegial panel of the Second Circuit Court to retry the Nie Shubin case, with Hu Yunteng as the presiding judge and responsible for correcting errors.On December 2 of the same year, the Second Circuit Court publicly pronounced the verdict on the retrial of Nie Shubin's intentional homicide and rape case, and acquitted Nie Shubin.
Hu Yunteng served as the chief judge of the Second Circuit Court of the Supreme Court for three years and eight months. In addition to presiding over the correction of the Nie Shubin case, he also corrected some wrongful convictions in the Changchun Sun Brothers case involving gangsters.In an exclusive interview with a Caixin reporter, he said that the key to correcting criminal cases lies in how the judiciary treats the complaints of the parties concerned. He believes that public authorities should not exercise excessive power, and that unjust and wrong cases must be corrected in a timely manner so that ordinary people can feel fairness and justice.
Hu Yunteng attaches great importance to handling letters and visits.He once revealed that the number of visitors received by the Second Circuit Court in 2016 decreased by 55.85% compared with 2015. After entering 2017, the number of petitioners, especially repeat and old visitors, continued to decrease.
Hu Yunteng also believes that judicial personnel should pay attention to avoiding three prejudices, that is, preconceived ideas, consistent correctness and stubbornness, handling complaints and petitions is different from trial cases, and the focus is to untie the knots and grievances of the parties. This is actually the work of the masses.Learn judicial wisdom.
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 leadership of the Beijing High Court to serve as the vice-president of the Supreme Court.In July, Xu Jiaxin, who served as director of the Political Department of the Supreme Court for five and a half years
Airborne to serve as Acting President of the Higher Court of Jilin Province. Ma Shizhong, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee took over the position of director of the Political Department.Luo Dongchuan is a member of the party group of the Supreme Court.At the end of August, Luo Dongchuan was appointed as the vice president of the Supreme Court, and He Xiaorong succeeded Hu Yunteng as the president of the Second Circuit Court.
There are currently 14 people in the leadership of the Supreme Court, namely: President Zhou Qiang, vice presidents Jiang Bixin, Li Shaoping, Jiang Wei, Zhang Shuyuan, Tao Kaiyuan, party member Sun Huapu, director of the Political Department Ma Shizhong, vice president Luo Dongchuan, and discipline inspection team leader Liu HaiQuan, vice president Yang Wanming, deputy ministerial-level full-time members of the judicial committee Liu Guixiang, Pei Xianding, and He Xiaorong.Luo Dongchuan is the first post-65 among them.
Li Rulin, deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate, resigned on the same day as Hu Yunteng.Li Rulin was born in January 1955 in Biyang, Henan Province. He started working in December 1972. He graduated from the in-service postgraduate class of the Central Party School, majoring in law theory, with a postgraduate degree.
Li Rulin worked in the Chengdu Military Region for a long time. After changing jobs, he successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the Jintang County Party Committee and Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces Department of Sichuan Province, director of the Armed Forces Department of Jinniu District of Chengdu City, member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, director of the Human Forces Cadre Division of the Organization Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, and the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee.Full-time deputy secretary of the party committee of the agency, secretary-general of the Political and Legal Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee.
In 1998, Li Rulin served as the executive deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Justice. In March 2001, he went to Beijing to serve as the director of the Ministry of Justice's Re-education through Labor Administration.In March 2009, Li Rulin was promoted to the director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Justice and became a deputy ministerial cadre; in April 2014, he was elected as the deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate until his resignation.
The leadership of the Supreme Procuratorate currently has eight people, namely: Chief Procurator Zhang Jun, deputy chief prosecutors Qiu Xueqiang and Sun Qian, leader of the discipline inspection team Su Deliang, deputy chief prosecutors Tong Jianming, Zhang Xueqiao, and Chen Guoqing, director of the Political Department Wang Guanghui, who was born in 1967Wang Guanghui in November 2009 was the youngest leader of the academy.■
