A Study On The People-oriented Ethical Spirit Of The Civil Code

The Civil Code,officially implemented in January 2021,is the first law named after a code since the founding of New China,an important component of the improvement of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics,and an important breakthrough in building a socialist state under the rule of law in China.The promulgation and implementation of the Civil Code marks the entry of China’s civil law system into a new "Civil Code Era".The Civil Code covers a wide range of issues,closely related to the world of people’s lives and the development of the socialist market economy,and contains rich ethical and moral implications,especially the distinct ethical spirit of people-oriented,demonstrating the fundamental characteristics of the Civil Code as a "people-oriented law".It is of great significance to explore the human-oriented ethical spirit of the Civil Code,to build a virtuous modern social and ethical order in China,and to promote good law and good governance and modernization of national governance.As a "people-oriented law",the Civil Code is concerned with the protection of people’s rights and the well-being of their lives,and its mission is to safeguard the dignity and rights of human beings,and the people-oriented approach constitutes the unique spirit and temperament of the Civil Code.The core of people-centeredness is people’s rights,and the ethical spirit of people-centeredness takes the Marxist idea of comprehensive and free development of human beings as the fundamental value core,which is not only infused with the moral genes of China’s traditional people-centeredness,but also absorbs the reasonable value factors of Western human-centeredness.As a developing country in transition,the formulation of a civil code belonging to the Chinese people is both an urgent practical need and a persistent legal and moral pursuit.China’s traditional society has criminal law but no civil law,and the birth of the civil code is a long historical process,which is ultimately the result of the development and progress of China’s socialist market economy and the awakening of people’s consciousness of democracy,freedom,equality,justice and other individual rights.The ethical spirit of people-oriented in the Civil Code has been fully embodied: the Civil Code highlights the ethical spirit of safeguarding human dignity,constructs a complete system of personal rights,and the independent codification of personal rights is an initiative to safeguard human dignity;the Civil Code manifests the ethical spirit of caring for the rights and interests of the weak,and the value of caring for the rights and interests of the weak runs through the whole process of codification of the Civil Code and the all-round legal provisions;the Civil Code establishes the green principle by As the basic law of market economy,the Civil Code fully embodies the ethical spirit of protecting the rights and interests of market subjects and people’s daily rights and interests.The people-oriented ethical spirit of the Civil Code has important values of the times,promotes the effective practice of Xi Jinping’s people-centered rule of law thought,is conducive to the transformation of the traditional people-oriented to the modern people-oriented ethicalorder,thus building a virtuous modern social ethical order,and is conducive to the promotion of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity under the joint rule of morality and law.