Dong is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and he is one of many proletarian legal experts of China * * * Production Party. In his early years, he participated in the Revolution of 1911 and assisted Sun Yat-sen in charge of confidential work in Wuchang military government. After the failure of the Great Revolution, with the support of friends, Dong went to Japan to study law and gained a deep understanding of Chinese and foreign legal systems. After returning to China, he opened a law firm in Wuchang and was a well-known lawyer in Wuhan before joining the party. Later, under the guidance of Li, Dong changed from a democracy fighter to a Marxist believer.
As early as 1930s, Dong served as the President of the Provisional Supreme Court and the President of the Supreme Court of the Chinese Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Democratic Government in the Central Soviet Area, and made many contributions to the party's legal system construction at that time. During his work in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, Dong used legal weapons to fight against the Kuomintang.
No matter in the Central Soviet Area, on the way to the Long March, or in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Dong made outstanding contributions to the cause of people's liberation.
1948 In March, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided that Dong was responsible for preparing for the convening of the Provisional People's Congress of North China and establishing the People's Government of North China. In fact, the task entrusted to him by the CPC Central Committee is to carry out the pilot project of the political and economic construction of the People's Republic of China.
At that time, Dong was a 63-year-old man, but he still worked day and night. In order to realize the strategic vision of the CPC Central Committee, we should link our every move with the future state power.
1948 On August 7th, the Provisional People's Congress of North China opened in Shijiazhuang.
Dong is duty-bound to shoulder the heavy responsibility of chairman of North China People's Government. Under the leadership of Dong, the work efficiency of the People's Government of North China is amazing. According to the incomplete statistics from June 1948 to February 10, there are no fewer than 50 kinds of laws and regulations formulated and promulgated by the people's government of North China. These regulations laid the initial foundation for the legal system construction of new China in the future.
1949 At the China People's Political Consultative Conference held in Beiping in September, Dong made a report on the drafting process and basic contents of the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China on behalf of the Preparatory Committee.
In the report, Dong explained the name, attributes, principles of government organization, nature and role of the country, and the organization and authority of the Central People's Government Committee. The meeting approved the report.
At the meeting on September 30th, he was elected as a member of the Central People's Government and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
10 year 10 month/day, held in founding ceremony, People's Republic of China (PRC). Dong Wu Bi followed Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and Soong Ching Ling to Tiananmen Gate, heard the national anthem echoing in the world for the first time and saw the first national flag flying in the blue sky. "The people of China have stood up since then!" Dong repeatedly recalled this historic sentence in his mind and couldn't help crying.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, everything was ready and the system was established. Dong, who has rich legal knowledge and judicial experience, naturally became the director of the Political and Legal Committee.
194910 June19, Dong attended the third meeting of the Central People's Government Committee and was appointed as Vice Premier of the State Council and Director of the Political and Legal Committee of the Central People's Government. From then on, he began a new course of assisting Zhou Enlai to lead the state power and legal system construction.
101October 2 1 day, Dong presided over the first meeting of the Political and Legal Committee. At the meeting, Dong clearly put forward the main tasks of the Political and Legal Committee: guiding the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice, the Legal Affairs Committee and the Ethnic Affairs Committee.
Dong led the political and legal departments to focus on the key work first. Dong believes that the first thing a country under the people's democratic dictatorship should do is to have laws to follow.
As early as 1948, 10 and 16, Dong pointed out at the People's Political Power Research Conference of the People's Government of North China:
1954 In September, Dong was elected as the President of the Supreme Court. Later, he took the lead in formulating the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) (Draft).
From 1949 to 1952, the judicial department handled more than 6 million criminal and civil cases, of which more than 90% were correctly handled and 0/0% were misjudged.