
December 4, 2022
is the ninth National Constitution Day
This year's " Constitution Propaganda Week " theme is:
"Study and publicize the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party
promotes the full implementation of the Constitution”
The Constitution is the fundamental law of the country
is the general charter for governing the country and maintaining peace
has the highest
legal status, legal authority , legal effect
law enforcement, state governance The law is relaxed and the country is in chaos
The spirit of the Constitution is constantly carried forward in the new era
Let us consciously
Respect the Constitution, study the Constitution, and safeguard the Constitution
Make the Constitution a common belief
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The Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Justice , and the National Legal Publicity Office jointly issued a notice on November 10, 2018 to deploy the first "Constitution Propaganda Week" activity.

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Which "Constitutional Propaganda Week" is this year?
This year, December 4th is not only the 9th National Constitution Day, but also the 40th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the current Constitution in my country, and it will also usher in the fifth "Constitution Propaganda Week".
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What is the theme of this year's "Constitution Propaganda Week" event?
The theme of the event is: "Study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and promote the full implementation of the Constitution"
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What is the schedule for this year's "Constitution Propaganda Week"?
From December 4th (Sunday) to December 10th (Saturday).
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What are the overall requirements for this year's "Constitution Propaganda Week" publicity campaign?
Full implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, with the theme of learning, publicizing and implementing the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, focusing on the 40th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the current Constitution, deeply understand the decisive significance of " two establishing ", strengthen " four consciousnesses ", firm up " four self-confidence ", and achieve " two safeguard ", deeply study, publicize and implement Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the Constitution, vigorously strengthen the study and publicity of the Constitution, make the Constitution known to everyone and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and strive to make respect, learn, abide by and use the law a trend in the whole society, and create a good legal environment for to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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What are the key publicity contents of this year's "Constitution Propaganda Week"?
First, highlight the study and publicity of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The second is to highlight the study and publicity of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on the rule of law.
The third is to highlight the study and publicity of the Constitution.
Fourth, highlight the far-reaching historical significance of the 40 years of publication and implementation of the current Constitution.
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What are the basic requirements for highlighting the study and publicity of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China?
Deeply study and publicize the work of the past five years and the great changes in the new era and ten years, study and publicize the latest achievements of the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, study and publicize the Party’s mission and tasks in the new era and new journey, study and publicize the strategic deployment of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, study and publicize the major deployments on adhering to the comprehensive rule of law and promoting the construction of a rule of law in China, and promote the whole society to fully learn, fully grasp, and fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
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What are the basic requirements for highlighting the study and publicity of Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law?
Deeply study and understand the great significance, core essence, spiritual essence, rich connotation and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law, especially in-depth study and publicity of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the Constitution, strengthen the Constitution's confidence, promote the spirit of the Constitution, and safeguard the authority of the Constitution.

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What are the basic requirements for highlighting the study and publicity of the Constitution?
Focus on studying and promoting the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of the country according to the constitution, and adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of the constitution, adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China determined by the Constitution, adhere to the state system of the people's democratic dictatorship determined by the Constitution and the political system of the people's congress system, promote the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, and better play the important role of the Constitution in governing the country.
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What are the basic requirements for highlighting the far-reaching historical significance of the current Constitution's publication and implementation for 40 years?
Guiding the whole society to fully realize that our country's Constitution has effectively upheld the leadership of the Communist Party of China, effectively guaranteed the people's mastery of their own affairs, and effectively promoted the reform and opening up of and the socialist modernization construction. It is a good constitution that conforms to national conditions, reality, and the requirements of the development of the times. It continuously deepens and strengthens its political, legal and ideological identification with the Constitution.
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What theme activities will be organized this year's "Constitution Propaganda Week"?
In combination with the study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, taking the 40th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the current Constitution as an opportunity, we organized and carried out the "Seven-In-On" theme activities, namely, the Constitution enters rural areas, communities, campuses, institutions, enterprises, military camps, and online activities.
All localities and departments should adapt to local conditions and organize constitutional theme publicity activities with distinctive characteristics, diverse forms and high mass participation according to the arrangements of key activities. We must integrate the spirit of the Constitution and the elements of the rule of law into red culture, local culture, industry culture, corporate culture, etc., give full play to the role of "democratic rule of law demonstration village (community)" and rule of law publicity and education bases, and carry out mass rule of law cultural activities.
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What are the work requirements for this year's "Constitution Propaganda Week"?
First, strengthen organizational leadership.
The second is to implement the legal universal responsibility system.
The third is to insist on facing the grassroots people.
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How to strengthen organizational leadership?
The "Constitution Propaganda Week" publicity activities should be taken as an important means to study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, carefully plan and formulate activity plans, and organize and implement them carefully, and promote the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into organs, enterprises and institutions, urban and rural communities, campuses, military camps, various new economic organizations and new social organizations, and websites, and form a wave of learning and publicizing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and studying and promoting the Constitution in the whole society. Leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in preaching the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, take the lead in preaching Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law, take the lead in preaching the Constitution, take the lead in preaching the great achievements, basic experiences and important roles in promoting national construction in the past 40 years of publication and implementation of the current Constitution, unite our hearts and minds with the spirit of the Constitution, and guide the whole society to unswervingly follow the path of rule of law with Chinese characteristics. We must firmly grasp the correct political direction and public opinion orientation of constitutional propaganda, implement the responsibility system for ideological work, and prevent the spread of wrong ideas and speech and harmful information.
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How to implement the legal responsibility system?
The "Constitution Propaganda Week" publicity activities should be regarded as an important carrier to promote the implementation of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" legal publicity plan and as an important measure for state organs to implement the legal publicity responsibility system of "whoever enforces the law will be popularized". Judicial and law enforcement agencies should organize judges, prosecutors and administrative law enforcement personnel to promote the spirit of the rule of law by popularizing the law through cases. Media at all levels and types should implement the media's public welfare legal publicity responsibility system, carefully plan, and launch special columns for constitutional publicity in important pages and periods. We must make full use of new technologies and new applications, strengthen interactive communication and immersive experience, strive to expand the coverage and influence of work, and allow positive energy to generate large flow. The departments of the work of promoting and governing the law in accordance with the law should play their functional roles, strengthen overall work coordination, and ensure that all tasks are implemented.
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How to insist on facing the grassroots people?
We must adhere to the principle of being close to reality and respecting laws, be good at using methods that the masses are willing to participate and easy to participate, promote the extension of constitutional publicity to the grassroots level and enter thousands of households. Give full play to the role of village (community) legal consultants, use village schools, citizen lecture halls, moral lecture halls and other positions to arrange for each village (community) legal consultant to carry out constitutional publicity at least once for the village (community) they serve. Constitutional texts and constitutional publicity materials are placed in public places such as village (neighborhood) committee service windows, farm bookstores, legal book corners, and public legal service centers for free access to and learning by the public. Set up constitutional propaganda columns and post constitutional propaganda posters in village (community) public activity venues, and integrate the constitution and the rule of law elements into village (community) cultural squares, parks and other legal cultural positions, so that the people can understand, see, remember, recognize, and abide by the Constitution and laws. Offline activities must be organized and carried out strictly in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control. We must focus on improving actual results, avoid formalism and bureaucracy, and effectively reduce the burden on grassroots units. What are the themes and schedules of the first 4 "Constitution Promotion Week" activities for the first 4 "Constitution Promotion Week" activities?
The first time, the 2018 "Constitution Propaganda Week" event is: respect the Constitution, study the Constitution, abide by the Constitution, safeguard the Constitution, and apply the Constitution. The time is from December 2 to December 8.
The theme of the second time, the 2019 "Constitution Propaganda Week", is: Promote the spirit of the Constitution and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. The time is from December 1st to 7th.
The theme of the third time, the 2020 "Constitution Propaganda Week", is: In-depth study and publicity of Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law and vigorously promote the spirit of the Constitution. The time is from November 30 to December 6.
The theme of the 4th "Constitution Propaganda Week" event in 2021 is: Guided by Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law and unswervingly follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. The time is from November 29 to December 5.
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What are the main characteristics of the Constitution?
First, the Constitution is the fundamental law of the country. The content of the Constitution involves fundamental issues of state and social life. It stipulates the fundamental system and fundamental tasks of the state, the basic rights and obligations of citizens, and is the fundamental code of activities of all organizations and individuals.
Secondly, the Constitution is the basis for formulating laws and regulations. All laws, administrative regulations, , local regulations, and rules must be based on the Constitution.
Third, the Constitution has the highest legal effect. All laws, administrative regulations, local regulations and rules shall not conflict with the Constitution.
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When was the current constitution of our country passed?
On December 4, 1982, the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress passed the " Constitution of the People's Republic of China ", which is the current Constitution.
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How many times has the current constitution been amended and in which year?
The current constitution has been amended five times, and has been revised in accordance with the " Amendment to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China" adopted by the first session of the Seventh National People's Congress on April 12, 1988, the First Session of the Eighth National People's Congress on March 29, 1993, the Second Session of the Ninth National People's Congress on March 15, 1999, the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress on March 14, 2004, and the First Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on March 11, 2018.
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What is the structure of my country's current constitution?
Preface, Chapter 1 "General Outline", Chapter 2 "Citizens' Basic Rights and Obligations", Chapter 3 "State Institutions", Chapter 4 "National Flag, National Anthem, National Emblem, Capital", a total of 143 articles.
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Basic principles of my country's Constitution What are the main contents of ?
The basic principles of our country's constitution include: the Party's leadership principle, the people's sovereignty principle, the principle of respecting and protecting human rights, the principle of democratic centralism, the principle of power supervision and restraint, and the principle of rule of law.
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What is the fundamental task of the country determined by the Constitution of our country?
The fundamental task of the country is to concentrate on socialist modernization along the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. People of all ethnic groups in China will continue to adhere to the people's democratic dictatorship, adhere to the socialist path, adhere to reform and opening up under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the people's democratic dictatorship, adhere to the socialist path, adhere to reform and opening up, continuously improve the various systems of socialist , develop the socialist market economy, develop the socialist democracy, improve the socialist rule of law, implement the new development concept of , self-reliance, work hard, and gradually realize the modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology, promote the coordinated development of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization, and ecological civilization, and build our country into a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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When is the National Constitution Day established and on which day?
On November 1, 2014, the 11th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress voted to pass the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Establishment of the National Constitution Day", and established the date of publication and implementation of the current Constitution, namely December 4, as National Constitution Day. December 4 this year marks the 9th National Constitution Day and the 40th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of our current Constitution.
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What is the specific content of the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Establishment of the National Constitution Day"?
On December 4, 1982, the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress passed the current Constitution of the People's Republic of China. The current Constitution is the inheritance and development of the first Constitution of New China formulated in 1954. The Constitution is the fundamental law of the country and the general constitution for governing the country and maintaining stability. It has the highest legal status, legal authority and legal effect. Comprehensive implementation of the Constitution is the primary task and basic work in comprehensively promoting the rule of law and building a socialist country ruled by law. People of all ethnic groups in the country, all state organs and armed forces, all political parties and social groups, and all enterprises and institutions must take the Constitution as the fundamental norm of activities and have the responsibility to safeguard the dignity of the Constitution and ensure the implementation of the Constitution. No organization or individual shall have privileges beyond the Constitution and the law, and all acts that violate the Constitution and the law must be pursued.In order to enhance the constitutional awareness of the whole society, carry forward the spirit of the Constitution, strengthen the implementation of the Constitution, and comprehensively promote the rule of law, the 11th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress decided:
December 4 will be established as National Constitution Day. The state carries out constitutional publicity and education activities through various forms.
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What is the necessity and significance of establishing the National Constitution Day?
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed that to adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of the country according to the constitution, and to adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of the constitution, and emphasize that we must strengthen the implementation of the Constitution. To this end, it is necessary for the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to establish the National Constitution Day in the form of legislation.
Since the promulgation and implementation of the current Constitution, legal publicity activities focused on learning and publicizing the Constitution and the basic national laws have been carried out on December 4 every year. This has become a practice and has played a strong role in forming a good atmosphere of supremacy of the Constitution and glorious law-abiding. The establishment of December 4 as National Constitution Day in the form of legislation will focus on reflecting the will of the whole Party and the people of the whole country, which is conducive to strengthening constitutional publicity and education in the whole society, establishing the awareness of being loyal to the Constitution, abide by the Constitution, and safeguarding the Constitution, further promoting the spirit of the Constitution, safeguarding the authority of the Constitution, defending the dignity of the Constitution, ensuring the implementation of the Constitution, and promoting the construction of a rule of law China.
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When was the constitutional oath system of established in my country?
The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law" passed by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly states: "Establish a constitutional oath system, and all state staff elected or appointed by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee are officially in office." In order to implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the 15th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress passed the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Implementing the Constitutional Oath System" on July 1, 2015, which came into effect on January 1, 2016, and established the constitutional oath system of our country through legislative means.
In accordance with the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, and to adapt to the needs of deepening the reform of the national supervision system of , the 33rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress revised the decision in 2015 on February 24, 2018 and will come into effect on March 12, 2018.
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Which state staff should publicly take the constitutional oath when taking office?
State People's Congress and the Standing Committees of the People's Congresses at all levels and above the county level, as well as state staff appointed by people's governments, supervisory committees, people's courts, and people's procuratorates at all levels shall publicly take the constitutional oath when taking office.
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What is the content of the Constitutional Oath ?
I swear: be loyal to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, safeguard the authority of the Constitution, perform statutory duties, be loyal to the motherland and the people, perform your duties conscientiously, be honest and dedicated, accept the supervision of the people, and strive to build a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern country!
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What are the forms and places requirements for the constitutional oath?
The oath ceremony can be carried out in the form of individual oaths or collective oaths depending on the situation. When taking an oath alone, the oath taker shall hold the Constitution of the People's Republic of China with his left hand, raise his fist with his right hand, and recite the oath. When taking the oath collectively, one person takes the oath. The person who leads the oath with his left hand touches the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, raises his fist with his right hand, and recites the oath; the other oaths are arranged neatly, raises his fist with his right hand, and recites the oath. The place of oath should be solemn and serious, and the national flag or emblem of the People's Republic of China should be hung. The national anthem of the People's Republic of China should be played and sung.
Source: Qingchun Jike