Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, February 22, Title: National People's Congress Representative Zhang Hui: Use legal expertise to help grassroots governance and private enterprise development

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zi Qiang

Talk to visit enterprises and consumers to understand their needs, check case materials to seek answers... In recent times, Zhang Hui, a member of the National People's Congress and director of Yunnan Jianguang Law Firm, has been busy conducting research and writing two proposals on revising the Product Quality Law and the Network Security Law as soon as possible, as well as two suggestions on legislation on online live streaming and improving the management system of industry associations and chambers of commerce.

On December 20, 2024, Zhang Hui, a member of the National People's Congress and director of Yunnan Jianguang Law Firm, spoke at the inspection symposium. (Photo by Qin Kaidi)

Since being elected as a representative of the National People's Congress, Zhang Hui has deeply integrated legal profession with the performance of duties of representatives to assist grassroots governance, escort the development of private enterprises, and endorse the people's worries.

"Effective mediation and resolution of social conflicts and disputes, and reducing litigation cases can make grassroots social governance more effective." Recognizing the urgency and importance of promoting source governance of litigation, at the National People's Congress last year, Zhang Hui put forward the suggestion of "leading with party building, linking the government and courts, integrating pre-trial mediation into grid-based grassroots governance."

"We must focus on the front end and cure the disease before it is cured, and promote the formation of a one-stop multi-party dispute resolution and litigation service system with party committee leadership, government and court linkage, and diversified co-construction, and promote the transformation of grassroots social governance from a certain division to a limited number of disputes and no lawsuits." Zhang Hui called for efforts from seven aspects: establishing an effective mechanism, giving full play to the linkage and joint efforts of multiple parties, enhancing residents' legal awareness, and strengthening the construction of mediation teams, to promote the source of conflicts and disputes and diversified resolution.

Zhang Hui's suggestions were included in the key supervision suggestions by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the Supreme People's Court formed a special working group to handle them. Relevant staff went to Yunnan to communicate in-depth with her and listened to her opinions and suggestions in person.

Over the past year, Zhang Hui has actively participated in the management of litigation sources, and often went to representative workstations, representative liaison offices, and grassroots legislative contact points to collect social conditions and public opinion, and promptly resolve doubts for the masses. She also actively carries out legal aid and public welfare legal services, and has been deeply involved in rural communities for legal publicity many times, so as to plant the seeds of the rule of law into the hearts of the people.

Zhang Hui told reporters that nowadays, the role of grassroots governance personnel such as grid workers, village cadres, people's mediators has been played, and many conflicts and disputes can be substantively resolved without leaving the village or the community. Taking Yunnan as an example, in 2024, there were 399,900 successful pre-trial mediation cases in the province, and the number of grassroots litigation cases was significantly reduced.

At the end of last year, a head of a small and micro enterprise came to Zhang Hui's office to express his gratitude in person, because the company passed the bank's investigation and review and successfully completed the loan renewal without repaying the principal, which greatly alleviated the financial pressure.

It turned out that the head of the enterprise had reported to Zhang Hui that the difficulty of renewing operating loans was difficult. After Zhang Hui carefully recorded his opinions and demands, he further conducted further research in private enterprises in different industries such as catering and pharmaceuticals, and put forward suggestions on solving the difficulty and high cost of financing for private enterprises, calling on banks to explore "renewal of loans without repayment" and increase support for small and micro enterprises to renew loans.

Last year, relevant departments issued policy documents to improve the financial services level of small and micro enterprises, requiring the banking industry to meet the financing needs of small and micro enterprises through newly issued loans and other forms to meet the financing needs of small and micro enterprises. Seeing that his suggestions were responded to, small and micro enterprises ushered in a "timely rain", Zhang Hui felt very relieved.

Zhang Hui has been paying attention to the development of private enterprises for a long time. At the National People's Congress last year, she put forward suggestions on the issuance of the Private Economy Promotion Law as soon as possible, calling on laws and policies to benefit enterprises to be implemented as soon as possible so that entrepreneurs can operate with confidence and invest with confidence. "This year I will continue to pay attention to the legislation of the private economy and actively speak out for creating a high-quality legal business environment." Zhang Hui said.

"The country's development is changing with each passing day, and representatives have great potential to perform their duties." Zhang Hui said that she will continue to give full play to her professional advantages in law, further enrich the content and form of work that connects the people, and enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of performing her duties.

[Reporter's Notes]

Short hair, capable and temperament are the first impression Zhang Hui gives. Open her performance report, professionalism, service to the people and responsibility are the keywords. Looking back on his experience in performing duties in 2024, Zhang Hui felt "very fulfilling" and planned his performance in 2025. Zhang Hui said that "we must continue to make progress."

From the court to the venue, from files to proposals, from case rights protection to promoting the progress of the rule of law, Zhang Hui uses the law as a link to melt professional capabilities and people's livelihood concerns into practice of performing duties. The suggestions she put forward are closely linked to the pain points of national strategies and people's livelihood, and use the rule of law thinking to demonstrate the power of the rule of law.

In Zhang Hui's view, "As a lawyer, we must be a good lawyer that satisfies the Party and the people; as a representative of the People's Congress, we must strive to be a bridge of connection between the Party and the country and the people."