China's Procurator-General Cao Jianming delivered a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Friday at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, China's national legislature.[Special coverage]
Following are the highlights of Cao's report.
WORK IN 2013-2017
-- Approved the arrest of 4.53 million criminal suspects and prosecuted 7.17 million criminal suspects, down 3.4 percent and up 19.2 percent respectively from the previous five years
-- Prosecuted 405,000 for serious violent crimes including homicide, kidnapping and arson
-- Prosecuted 8,932 for crimes related to mafia-like organizations
-- Prosecuted 51,000 involving in major cases of telecom and cyberspace fraud since 2016
-- Prosecuted over 10,000 for violent crimes related to infringement of students' right since 2016
-- Prosecuted 144,000 for sabotaging financial management order and financial fraud, 2.2 times of the figure in the previous five years
-- Prosecuted 82,000 for illegal fund-raising and pyramid selling8 -- Handled 13,000 cases of public interests litigation related to ecology and environment
-- Investigated 254,419 for work-related crimes, up 16.4 percent from the previous five years, recovering economic losses of over 55.3 billion yuan (8.72 billion U.S. dollars)
-- Investigated 120 former officials at provincial-level or above, including Zhou Yongkang, Sun Zhengcai, Ling Jihua and Su Rong, and prosecuted 105 such officials.
-- Helped to bring back 222 suspects of work-related crimes who had been on the run from 42 countries and regions
-- Rectified mishandling in granting commutation, parole and temporary execution of sentence outside prison for 118,000 people
-- Investigated 11,560 judicial staff for suspected power abuse, graft or dereliction of duty
PLAN FOR 2018
-- To deepen study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
-- To safeguard national political security and social stability
-- To ensure legal guarantee for sustainable and healthy economic and social development in the new era
-- To intensify efforts on legal supervision and uphold the unity, sanctity and authority of China's legal system
-- To firm up political orientation in deepening reform
-- To strengthen team building for the new era and exercise strict governance on procurators
