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China tackles 206,394 serious criminal cases in 11 months

Courts across China adjudicated 206,394 serious criminal cases during the first 11 months this year, which involved manslaughter, robbery, bombing and kidnapping,China's top judge said Monday. Addressing a national conference attended by the heads of province-level courts, Xiao Yang, president of China's Supreme People's Court, said 45.38 percent of the convicted criminals involved in the cases had been given sentences of at least five years in prison, life imprisonment, and death.


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Courts across China adjudicated 206,394 serious criminal cases during the first 11 months this year, which involved manslaughter, robbery, bombing and kidnapping, China's top judge said Monday.

Addressing a national conference attended by the heads of province-level courts, Xiao Yang, president of China's Supreme People's Court, said 45.38 percent of the convicted criminals involved in the cases had been given sentences of at least five years in prison, life imprisonment, and death.

He said Chinese courts settled a total of 681,074 criminal cases during the 11 months, up 2.47 percent year-on-year.

Social law and order had improved a lot thanks to the country's campaign to crack down hard on crimes, said the president.

But he said the incidence of serious crimes endangering law and order remained high, and the crimes of bombing, empoisoning, arson, manslaughter, robbery, kidnapping and other violence remained outstanding in some areas.


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