Bilingual legal textbooks published in Beijing
The opening ceremony for the publication of bilingual legal training materials for Gansu provincial police officers is held at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on March 15.[Photo/China Tibet Onine]
BEIJING, March 18(China Tibet Online)Legal affairs in Tibetan-inhabited areas of China are about to become a lot more bilingual. The opening ceremony for the publication of bilingual legal training materials for Gansu provincial police officers was held at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities in Beijing on March 15.
Leaders of China’s Supreme People’s Court, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the State Administration of Civil Affairs presented the textbooks to police officers from the Tibet Autonomous Region，and Sichuan，Yunnan，Gansu and Qinghai provinces.
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Zhou Qiang, chief justice of the Supreme People’s Court extended his congratulations on the publication of the textbooks. He also said that the textbooks have ended the time when there were no "bilingual" materials in the Chinese and Tibetan languages for police officers in Tibetan-inhabited areas. The latest books will play an important role in strengthening law enforcement and ensuring the people’s right to file lawsuits in their own ethnic language.
Wang Zhengwei, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission also pointed out that the issuance of the bilingual legal training materials was expected to increase the effectiveness of law enforcement and strengthen national law in areas populated with ethnic minorities. Wang said the new bilingual reality, a big event with everlasting impact, is in line with the spirit of the Central Ethnic Work Conference held in 2014, which focused on ethnic affairs in China.
The textbooks include 10 volumes of the Constitution, the Criminal Law and the Civil Law were compiled by faculty members and law professionals with good command of both the Chinese and Tibetan languages from Northwest University of Nationalities and Gansu Normal University for Nationalities, and were entrusted by the Gansu Provincial Supreme People’s Court. They took over a year to finish and were published by the Ethnic Publishing House in Beijing.