During the census, it was found that there are 12,359 scientific and technological personnel in *** who have served their sentences or been released after serving their sentences (criminal offenses, non-political reasons), a few of whom have senior professional titles. The central government decided that scientific and technical personnel released after serving their sentences would be reinstated immediately after serving their sentences, allowing them to return to work in their original units and restore their original cadre ranks and wages. For detained scientific and technological personnel, as long as they do not commit serious criminal offenses (in China, serious criminal offenses refer to murder, arson, rape, etc.), they will be released immediately and returned to their original units, with their original cadre ranks and wages restored.
There are also some professional and technical personnel who are idle in society due to reasons such as retirement, demobilization, release after serving their sentences, decentralization after the "Great Leap Forward", and decentralization during the "Cultural Revolution" (the specific number is not yet clear). The central government has decided to encourage and arrange for these professional and technical personnel to return to the cadre ranks and give full play to their expertise to serve economic construction.
In the early 1980s, the country re-established a five-level professional title system for professional and technical personnel, and the review of professional titles was fully launched. By the end of 1983, there were 5.9 million professional and technical personnel in China. There were 94,000 people with senior professional titles, accounting for 1.6%; 1.35 million people with intermediate professional titles, accounting for 25.7%; 4.32 million people with junior professional titles, accounting for 72.7%.
The process of a lawyer becoming a professional is very interesting. Initially, lawyers were not part of the professional and technical pyramid. By the end of 1985, there were less than 20,000 lawyers in China, and society did not recognize lawyers as a legal profession. In 1985, the central government recognized the importance of lawyers in governing the country according to law, so it assigned a group of cadres from enterprises and institutions to receive short-term legal knowledge training and then became lawyers. In 1988, the professional titles of lawyers were defined as first-class lawyer, second-class lawyer, third-class lawyer, fourth-class lawyer and paralegal, and were included in the sequence of professional and technical personnel. Technician sequence.