Lawmakers Listen to Reports by Supreme Court, Supreme Procuratorate

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Lawmakers Listen to Reports by Supreme Court, Supreme Procuratorate

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The on-going Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) held its fourth plenary meeting Monday morning, to listen to reports on the work of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Top leaders Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing were present at the meeting presided over by Zhou Guangzhao, executive chairman of the Fifth Session and a vice-chairmen of the session's presidium.

A total of 2,731 NPC deputies attended the meeting. More than 2,000 members of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference also attended as non-voting delegates.

Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court, reported that in the "Strike Hard" campaign, courts across the country "dealt heavy, immediate blows according to law" in handling cases of underworld in the nature and of violence as well as robbery that made people feel unsafe. Meanwhile, the courts also severely punished, in accordance with the law, economic crimes involving financial fraudulence, taxation evasion, and cheat of export tax rebates.

Last year the people's courts at all levels closed over 340,000 criminal cases and sentenced over 150,000 people to jail terms of five years and above, life imprisonment and to death, an increase of 15.07 percent over the figure of previous year. The number of cases involving criminal gangs handled was 7.3 times that of the previous year. The number of criminals involving the use of guns and explosives who were sentenced rose by 81.6 percent.

The courts closed a total of 5.92 million cases, of which 85.64 percent are civil cases. The courts also administered justice on 100,440 cases of labor disputes, 33 percent more than in the previous year. The courts also handled and closed 14.953 financial crimes, sentenced 19,972 criminals, and recovered 2.23 billion yuan of financial losses for the state.

The Supreme People's Court has overhauled more than 2,600 judicial explanations issued since New China was set up in 1949 and the 177 outdated judicial explanations annulled have been made public, a move aimed to get compatible with the World Trade Organization rules.

In his report, President Han Zhubin of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that the people's procuratorates at all levels investigated 36,447 corruption cases involving 40,195 people and more than 4.1 billion yuan in money terms.

The number of cases each involving one million yuan ran up to 1,319 and people involved numbered 9,452, including 2,670 officials at the county level and above and six officials at provincial and ministerial level such as Li Jiating, former governor of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

According to Xiao, last year people's courts at all levels convicted 20,120 criminals of taking bribes and embezzlement, including five provincial- or ministerial-level public servants, 89 prefecture-level officials, and 419 county-level officials.

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