On the evening of April 23, Professor Li Yongjun of the School of Law of Jilin University was invited to give a lecture at our college, with the theme of "Thinking about the Path Selection of China's Rule of Law Road from a Traditional Perspective". The lecture was presided over by Professor Yu Xiaoqi of the School of Law, and more than 60 teachers and students participated in the lecture.

At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Li Yongjun pointed out that thinking is the activity or process of the subject's cognition of the objective world, emphasizing that national thinking is shaped by the common survival structure and lifestyle of ethnic groups, and profoundly affects the country's choice of rule of law model and the direction of the rule of law. He then compared the differences between Chinese and Western thinking by taking the phenomena of Chinese yin and yang, the evolution of Chinese characters, the meaning of ancient poetry, and the formalized legal tradition of the common law system as examples, and explained in detail the correlation thinking of China with "one" and "unity" (the unity of heaven and man) as the core characteristics and the Western thinking of unity with "two" and "division" (subject and object dichotomy) as the core characteristics.

Immediately afterwards, Professor Li Yongjun analyzed the trend of convergence between Chinese and Western thinking traditions in modern times, and the modernization process of China's rule of law drew on the Western model to promote the transformation of thinking, while the West criticized the subject-object dualistic thinking, explored the interaction between the rule of law and economic, political, social and other practical factors, and promoted a fundamental shift in the operation of the rule of law. He proposed that this two-way interaction provides a historical opportunity for integration and innovation of the rule of law in contemporary China. Finally, Professor Li Yongjun focused on China's reality, put forward the need for a comprehensive thinking structure with rational thinking as the main body and traditional thinking as the supplement to promote the construction of the rule of law in China, and specifically expounded the path of the contemporary Chinese rule of law model from the perspective of traditional thinking.

During the discussion, Professor Li Yongjun made in-depth responses to the questions and insights of Xiao Jianfei and other teachers, emphasizing that China's rule of law construction needs to adhere to rationality while attaching importance to the governance value of traditional correlational thinking.

The atmosphere of on-site communication was active, and teachers and students had heated discussions on related topics. The lecture ended successfully with warm applause.

Professor Li Yongjun is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Law of Jilin University, an outstanding professor of Kuang Yaming Scholar of Jilin University, the vice president of the Jurisprudence Research Association of the China Law Society, the president of the Rule of Law Culture Construction Research Association of the Jilin Law Society, and the chief expert of major projects of the National Social Science Foundation. He has published more than 100 research results in journals such as "China Law", "Taoist Law Ancient and Modern", "Universal Principles of Justice and Chinese Experience", "Modernization of China's Legal System from the Perspective of "Home", "Experience and Caprice in Jurisprudence Teaching and Research", and won the third prize of the 8th Qian Duansheng Law Research Achievement Award and the third prize of the 9th University Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award.