Kick-off Meeting on Key Special Project under China’s National Key R&D Programmes Held at HUTB

2021-04-11

On April 10, the kick-off meeting on the key special project of “Technological Research on Intelligent Trial and Trend Pre-warning of Ecological and Environmental Protection Cases” under China’s National Key R&D Programmes of “Public Security Risk Prevention and Emergency Response Technology and Equipment” of the Ministry of Science and Technology(MOST)presided over by Chen Xiaohong, HUTB President and CAE Academician, was held at Conference Room 206 of Technology Building. The meeting was hosted by the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, MOST, and organized by Central South University (CSU) and HUTB. The meeting was attended by academicians, experts and leaders, including Fan Guobin, Academician of China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), Chen Xiaohong, HUTB President and CAE Academician, Major General Tan Yuejin of National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Zhou Jianyuan, Deputy Director of China Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Department, Yang Xiang, Vice President of Hunan Higher People’s Court, Zhou Kechao, Vice President of CSU, Li Dingjun, Vice President of HUTB, Zhang Qiaoxian, Director of Business Division of Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, MOST, and Wang Xiaoyan, Deputy Director of Planning Office of Information Center of Supreme People’s Court, as well as experts, scholars, leaders and members of the project team from various units, including China Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Department, Institute of Electronic Science of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Hunan Higher People’s Court, Sichuan Higher People’s Court, Fujian Higher People’s Court, CSU, Chongqing University, Chinese People’s Public Security University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, HUTB, Chinese Academy of Judicial Big Data Co., Ltd., Hunan HONGPU Innovation Technology Development Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Session Information Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing Tongdahai Technology Co., Ltd., and Shenzhen Sunwin Intelligent Co., Ltd. The opening ceremony was chaired by Li Qihou, Director of Scientific Research Department, CSU.

At the meeting, Vice President Zhou Kechao delivered a welcome speech on behalf of CSU. He said that the frequent occurrence of public security cases involving ecology and environment, which is an issue of major national demand, requires a science-based solution based on multidisciplinary support. He said that the project presided over by Academician Chen Xiaohong is participated by a host of high-level experts and scholars from domestic universities, research institutes, government organs and hi-tech enterprises, and pools the highest-quality research resources. He expressed his confidence in Academician Chen’s ability to lead the research team to achieve expected results and to open up new ways in the field of “Public Security Risk Prevention and Emergency Response Technology and Equipment”.

Deputy Director Zhou Jianyuan addressed the meeting on behalf of China Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Department. He pointed out that characterized by high level, huge impact and deep influence, the key special project under China’s National Key R&D Programmes of MOST is an important carrier for enhancing China’s self-reliant innovation ability and core competitiveness, provides a strong support for economic and social development, and plays an important role in promoting the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy. He said that the nearly 30 years of unremitting research conducted by Academician Chen Xiaohong in the fields of building a “two-oriented” society, efficient utilization of resources and ecological and environmental protection has yielded fruitful results, making a positive contribution to Hunan’s efforts to build a major province of ecology. He said that by focusing on major national strategic needs and dedicating to the “intelligence+ecology” interdisciplinary research with big data, AI and other new digital technologies, academician Chen demonstrated the sense of responsibility and patriotism as a scientist, becoming a role model inside and outside the province, which provides a strong foundation for the high-quality implementation of the project. He said that China Hunan Provincial Science & Technology Department will allocate more resources to support CSU and HUTB in enhancing the innovation ability, jointly promote the smooth implementation of the project, and contribute more to the building of “Peaceful China” and “Beautiful China”.

Deputy Director Wang Xiaoyan expressed congratulations on the setup of the project on behalf of the Information Center of Supreme People’s Court. She expressed the hope that the project team will understand the current status of the information and business integration of courts in the context of judicial reform, and determine the positioning of the project in accordance with the top-level design documents concerning the informatization of people’s court and the practice of trial of ecological and environmental protection cases by people’s court; clarify the actual needs of all business lines, inherit the existing informatization results of people’s court, conduct the trial of ecological and environmental protection cases with systematic thinking, and carry out the intelligent design and integrated implementation of entire process; on the basis of conducting actual research in a comprehensive manner, conduct theoretical and technical research on smart court, tap into the paint points and difficulties a court faces in judicial service, and identify key problems that restrict the development of judicial service; emphasize the operational guidance of demonstration courts, and pay attention to the implementation of research results in the practical trial of ecological and environmental protection cases.

On behalf of the Administrative Center for China’ Agenda 21, MOST, Director Zhang Qiaoxian introduced the functions of the center, the overall situation of project management, the main purpose of convening the kick-off meeting, and the content of demonstration. She pointed out that smart justice provides a strong support for modernizing the judicial governance system and enhancing the governance ability through new-generation AI technology, and wins public recognition. She said that the technological research on intelligent trial and trend pre-warning of ecological and environmental protection cases is of self-evident importance, as it directly bears on the happy life of people. She expressed confidence and expectations for the project presided over by Academician Chen Xiaohong. She expressed the hope that the members of the research team will be oriented towards the use demand of users, dedicate themselves to the implementation of the project, and yield high-quality and high-level results that can better serve the national system of supreme people’s court. At the same time, she expressed the hope that the members of the demonstrationexpert group will propose valuable opinions and suggestions on the high-quality implementation of the project during the demonstration stage.

The academicians, experts and leaders jointly witnessed the appointment ceremony for member experts of the project expert advisory committee. Academician Chen Xiaohong presented the appointment letter of chairman to Academician Fan Guobin. Deputy Director Zhou Jianyuan, Vice President Li Dingjun and Director Zhang Qiaoxian presented the appointment letter to other appointed members.

Academician Fan Guobin, leader of the demonstrationexpert group, presided over the reporting and expert demonstration stages of the project. During the reporting stage of the project, Academician Chen Xiaohong elaborated the situation and implementation plan of the project in terms of six aspects, that is “research background and project significance”, “project objectives and assessment indicators”, “research content and technical route”, “project cooperation and task division”, “implementation plan and budget” and “organizational mechanism and safeguard measures” on behalf of the project team. She stressed that the project, which focuses on addressing the major need and practical problem of building “digital rule of law, smart rule of law” and breaking the technical bottleneck in the intelligent trial and trend pre-warning of ecological and environmental protection cases, will provide a technological support and exemplary role for building a smart judicial system, and contribute wisdom to ecological progress and the building of a beautiful China.

Subsequently, Professor Li Yuhua of Chinese People’s Public Security University, Professor Kou Gang team of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Professor Hu Dongbin of CSU, Researcher Zhang Yue of Chinese Academy of Judicial Big Data Co., Ltd., and Professor Xu Xuesong of HUTB reported the plans for implementing the sub-topics of the project, i.e. “Research on Knowledge System of Ecological and Environmental Protection Cases”, “Research on Construction of Case Knowledge Graph Based on Intelligent Semantic Analysis”, “Research on Method for Intelligent Inference Rule Generation and Intelligent Study and Judgement of Cases Based on AI”, “Technological Research on Trend Pre-warning of Ecological and Environmental Protection Cases and Case Feature Mining” and “Intelligent Trial Auxiliary System and Trend Pre-warning Platform for Ecological and Environmental Protection Cases” respectively.

After the conclusion of the reporting stage, the demonstration expert group conducted the demonstration, and proposed a series of valuable opinions and suggestions on the smooth implementation of the project. They agreed that the project focuses on meeting the major demand of the trial of ecological and environmental protection cases, and is characterized by good foundation of implementation, high viability of plan, and good research conditions and software and hardware environment. They suggested that the project be implemented immediately. In light of the opinions and suggestions of the expert group, all the members of the newly established project expert advisory committee had an in-depth discussion on relevant matters such as internal control system, internal management, IRP and academic conference, and arranged for the next step of the implementation of the project.

During the meeting, the academicians, experts and leaders also visited the key science and technology laboratory and engineering research center of HUTB as well as Chufeng Academy in the Economic Management Complex.

The key special project of “Technological Research on Intelligent Trial and Trend Pre-warning of Ecological and Environmental Protection Cases” under China’s National Key R&D Programmes of “Public Security Risk Prevention and Emergency Response Technology and Equipment” is under the administration of CSU and led by Chinese People’s Public Security University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, CSU, Chinese Academy of Judicial Big Data Co., Ltd. and HUTB. With ecological and environmental protection cases as the pointcut and internet platform and smart device as the carrier, the project aims to build an auxiliary platform for intelligent inference and trial of ecological and environmental protection cases and a platform for trend pre-warning and analysis of ecological and environmental protection cases based on big data, optimize the process of intelligent trial and trend pre-warning of ecological and environmental protection cases, standardize trial standard, increase the efficiency and accuracy of trial, and help realize the goal of “digital rule of law, smart rule of law”.