Governing the country according to law in an all-round way is a profound national governance revolution. In order to fully implement the basic strategy of governing the country according to law, co-ordinate administrative legislation, administrative law enforcement, legal management and law popularization, and promote the government's work into the track of rule of law, the plan proposes to integrate the responsibilities of the Ministry of Justice and the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, and re-establish the Ministry of Justice as a component of the State Council.
The Ministry of Justice mainly undertakes the following functions after expanding the informatization reform:
(a) to formulate the principles and policies of judicial administration, draft relevant laws and regulations, formulate departmental rules, formulate development plans for judicial administration and organize their implementation;
(2) To be responsible for the management of prisons throughout the country and assume corresponding responsibilities, and to supervise and manage the execution of punishment and the reform of criminals;
(three) responsible for guiding and supervising the management of drug rehabilitation places in the judicial administrative system;
(four) to draw up the national legal popularization plan and organize its implementation, and to guide the legal publicity, governance according to law and foreign legal publicity in all localities and industries;
(five) to be responsible for guiding and supervising lawyers and notaries, and to bear corresponding responsibilities, and to be responsible for the entrustment and management of lawyers from Hong Kong and Macao as entrusted notaries;
(six) to supervise and manage the legal aid work throughout the country;
(seven) to guide and supervise the construction of grassroots judicial offices and people's mediation, community correction, grassroots legal services and assistance and education;
(8) Organizing the implementation of the national judicial examination;
Baidu Encyclopedia-the State Council Institutional Reform Plan