It is recommended to seek help from the local legal aid center, and free lawyers can be provided. Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system that legal aid agencies established by the government or lawyers of non-governmental organizations provide legal services for people with financial difficulties or special cases, especially in rural areas. A special case refers to a case in which the criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender in accordance with the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). People's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs shall notify legal aid institutions to appoint lawyers to defend them. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
In September 2020, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued the Working Measures for Lawyers on Duty in Legal Aid. Legal aid is a social welfare undertaking to help the poor and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the vulnerable groups in society, and it is also an important measure for China to implement the general plan of governing the country according to law and build a well-off society in an all-round way. The Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to legal aid. The outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan of the country defines "establishing a legal aid system" as the social development goal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, and the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly puts forward "actively developing legal aid" as an important content of building socialist political civilization. The promulgation and implementation of the Regulations on Legal Aid and the launch of the large-scale public welfare activity "Fair and just legal aid for China" marked a new expansion and breakthrough in the breadth and depth of legal aid work in China.
At present, in China, there are still a group of people or classes who are in an unfavorable social position due to the low state of nature, economy, society and culture. It is difficult to solve the pressure brought by social problems like normal people and get into trouble. This is the so-called vulnerable group. As an important part of the judicial system, legal aid provides legal help to people who lack the ability and financial difficulties, so that they can stand before the law on an equal footing and enjoy equal legal protection. Legal aid system is the inevitable product of the development of human legal civilization and legal culture to a certain stage, and the result of the progress of national economic and social civilization and the enhancement of the concept of rule of law. It is an inevitable choice to help the people solve the difficult litigation problem through legal means under the background of building a socialist country ruled by law in China, and it is an important guarantee to promote judicial justice.