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dated September 22, 1956: Chinese legal system

The President of the Chinese Supreme People's Court, Mr. Tung Pi Wu, said in Peking on September 19 that in future "anyone who deliberately violates the law will be held legally responsible regardless of how high a position he holds and regardless of how much contribution he has made in the past." In a speech to the eighth Chinese Communist Party Congress, Mr. Tung, who is a member of the Politburo and a founder member of the party, declared that it would be a grave situation if the "phenomenon of an incomplete legal system were allowed to continue or if we delay too long in formulating a complete legal system." He said China still lacked some basic laws and those which were urgently needed were criminal, civil, and labour laws and a law for the utilisation of land. Since liberation, China had a people's democratic legal system, which had served the needs of the time. He praised this and said great achievements had been made because the system was correctly utilised.

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