The 1st session of the 13th National People's Congress reviewed and passed the State Council's institutional reform program. Recently, the CPC Central Committee issued a plan to deepen the reform of the party and state institutions. The program attaches great importance to the construction of ecological civilization, the establishment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Department of Natural Resources and has made major adjustments to the management system of natural resources and ecological environment. In order to study the impact and countermeasures of this round of organizational reform on the construction of China's ecological civilization and the rule of law, on March 25, 2018, the Tianjin University School of Law and the China Green Development Institute of Tianjin University jointly organized a new round of institutional reforms and the rule of law on natural resources and the environment. seminar. Prof. Qin Tianbao, Director of RIEL, Prof. Ke Jian, Deputy Director of RIEL, Professor Hu Baolin, Honorary President of the China Green Development Research Institute, Mr. Bie Tao, Director of the Department of Political Science and Law of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Prof. Zhang Jianwei, Vice President of the China Green Development Institute Prof. Wang Xiaogang, Professor of Law School of Jilin University, Director Yang Chaoxia of the Ecological Research Center of Beijing Forestry University, Prof. Chen Haixi and Dr. Tan Shan of Law School of Central South University were invited to attend the conference. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Sun Youhai, Dean of the Law School of Tianjin University.

 

Prof. Qin Tianbao, the Director of RIEL, made a speech on the theme of “Reflections on the System Reform of Nature Reserves (National Parks)”. Prof. Ke Jian, the deputy director of RIEL, made a speech on the theme: "Division and Integration of Eco-environment and Natural Resource Management Systems: Challenges and Responses to Environmental Law."