党的第十八届四中全会提出全面推进依法治国,法律的权威源自人民的内心拥护和真诚信仰,司法公信力的提升对司法改革的重要性毋庸置疑。司法公信力作为评判司法权力运行状况与民众对司法的满意程度的二维标准,具有多重内涵。其中,司法公开是司法公信力的重要保障。公开审理作为司法公开的核心制度对司法公信力的提升作用表现在诸多方面,有利于提高司法机关地位、树立司法权威,有利于防止司法腐败、贯彻落实司法监督,有利于提高民众法制意识,创造良好的法治环境。 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed to comprehensively promote the administration of the country according to law. The authority of the law stems from the inner-heart and sincere belief of the people. The promotion of judicial credibility has no doubt about the importance of judicial reform. Judicial credibility as a two-dimensional standard for judging the operating conditions of judicial power and people’s satisfaction with the judiciary has multiple connotations. Among them, the judicial openness is an important guarantee for the credibility of the judiciary. As a core system of judicial openness, open hearing plays an increasing role in enhancing the credibility of the judiciary in many aspects, which is conducive to enhancing the judicial authority, establishing judicial authority, preventing judicial corruption, implementing judicial supervision, raising public awareness of legal system and creating good The rule of law environment.