On the afternoon of April 7, the United Front Work Department of the CPC District Committee and the District Federation of Industry and Commerce organized the Hongkou Private Economy Roundtable (Phase II) and the Symposium on "Optimizing the Legal Business Environment" to study and implement the rule of law ideology of Xi Jinping, further implement the "Shanghai Rule of Law Service Private Economy High Quality Development Plan", and comprehensively strengthen the construction of the rule of law in private economy and private enterprises. Wang Xiaohan, Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee and Party Chief of the Party Group of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, and Shi Baozhen, Chair of the District Political Consultative Conference, attended and delivered speeches. Zheng Hong, Standing Member of the CPC District Committee and Director of the United Front Work Department, presided over the meeting. Yang Qian, Vice Chair of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, Liu Guoqing, Deputy District Governor and Director of the District Public Security Bureau, Wang Yuzhan, President of the District Court, and Sun Jun, Procurator General of the District Procuratorate attended the meeting.
Wang Xiaohan fully acknowledged the achievements made in optimizing the legal business environment in our district in recent years, and emphasized that: firstly, we should use the governance environment to boost the confidence of enterprise development, actively create a general atmosphere of fair competition, continuously improve the market economic basic systems such as property rights protection, market access, social credit, and ensure equal rights, opportunities, and rules. Secondly, we need to use governance thinking to cultivate enterprises' sense of law-abiding, and social development relies on the support of good laws and good laws. Enterprises themselves should also understand and abide by the law, and be defenders and practitioners of the law. And we should strengthen the promotion of legal popularization, making it the ideological and behavioral consciousness of private enterprises to handle affairs in accordance with the law, seek legal solutions in case of difficulties, solve problems and resolve conflicts by relying on the law. Thirdly, we need to use legal practice to promote the compliant development of enterprises. Private enterprises should prioritize the construction of legal private enterprises, strengthen their legal thinking, cultivate legal literacy, practice an affinity-incorruptibility unified political business relationship, promote legal governance of enterprises, and enhance their core competitiveness in legal compliance. Fourthly, we need to use legal weapons to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. In the process of comprehensively promoting the rule of law, it has become a social consensus to strengthen the protection of private enterprises through the introduction of special legislation. We believe that with the support of relevant departments such as the Public Security, the Procuratorate, and the Legal Department, private enterprises will be able to properly use legal weapons to safeguard their own rights and interests, and also play their role, contributing new forces to the comprehensive construction of a socialist modernized country.
Shi Baozhen said that in recent years, Hongkou has achieved certain results in building a legal service platform, improving service efficiency, stimulating market vitality, and focusing on promoting the "two healthy development" of the private economy. All parties have collaborated to promote the rule of law construction of the private economy. Besides, five suggestions are proposed on how to further promote the development of private enterprises under the rule of law and optimize the legal business environment in the future: firstly, we need to strengthen overall awareness and implement new development concepts. Secondly, we will strengthen the promotion of legal services in the new era. Thirdly, we should make full use of the achievements of the CPPCC's consultation and political discussion. Fourthly, we should fully leverage the role of democratic supervision. Fifthly, we need to deepen the promotion of legal popularization. We must adhere to the comprehensive leadership of the Party in the construction of the rule of law in private economy, draw a concentric circle, sing a concerto well, and make the rule of law an important symbol of Hongkou's soft power and core competitiveness.
At the meeting, Liu Guoqing, Wang Yuzhan, and Sun Jun respectively introduced the relevant situation and main practices of optimizing the legal business environment. Wang Wenqi, Chair of the District Federation of Industry and Commerce, Chair of Directorate of Shanghai Senxin Construction Group Co., Ltd., and Zhou Qiu, a three-level researcher from the District Judicial Bureau, co-unveiled the People's Mediation Committee of the Hongkou District Chamber of Commerce. The district court presented a book to representatives of private enterprises titled The Great Principles in Small Cases; the district procuratorate has issued appointment letters for the volunteer representatives of the "Yixin Weigong" procuratorial cloud platform.
Representatives of five private enterprises, including Shanghai Environmental Energy Conservation Engineering Co., Ltd., Shanghai Gexin Insurance Broker Co., Ltd., Shanghai Yongjiahe Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shanghai Zhongke Runda Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Yiweishi Technology Co., Ltd., made speeches and put forward suggestions on further optimizing the legal business environment in Hongkou based on their own enterprise development.
Also attending the meeting were more than 50 people, including officials from the Non-public Economy Department of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, the District Public Security Branch, the District Court, the District Procuratorate, the District Judicial Bureau, and the District Federation of Industry and Commerce, as well as heads from sub-district chambers of commerce, representatives of private enterprises, some CPPCC members of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, and some specially invited supervisors.