National Law Publicity Day

The National Law Publicity Day is a national legal publicity day established by the government of the People's Republic of China on December 4 of each year since 2001. December 4 is also the date of promulgation and implementation of the current constitution.

Introduction

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council forwarded the "Fourth Five-Year Plan of the Publicity Department and the Ministry of Justice on Carrying Out Legal Publicity and Education Among Citizens" on April 26, 2001, which determined:

December 4th, the date on which my country's current Constitution came into effect, will be designated as the annual National Law Publicity Day.

On National Law Publicity Day, political and legal departments at all levels across the country carry out various forms of legal publicity activities. Since 2009, the Supreme People's Court has held a public open day every year on National Law Publicity Day. Since 2013, the President of the Supreme People's Court has personally participated in the public open day activities. On National Legal Publicity Day in 2014, the Supreme People's Court invited the parties involved in wrongful convictions to participate in the public open day activities for the first time. The invited parties involved in wrongful convictions were Zhang Gaoping and Zhang Hui, the parties involved in the rape and murder case of an uncle and nephew in Zhejiang.