A senior leader of the Communist Party of China has urged improving procuratorial work and the caliber of procuratorial staff on the grass-roots level to better serve the people.

Grass-roots procuratorates are the bases of the entire procuratorial system, Luo Gan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the Committee of the Political Science and Law under the CPC Central Committee, told a meeting on the work of grass-roots procuratorates held from June 16 to 18 in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province.

Luo said the "people's supervisors system", a pilot mechanism which invites ordinary people as supervisors of occupational offense cases handled by procuratorial organs, should be further deepened.

The occupational offense cases include corruption, bribery, breaches of citizen's democratic rights and misconduct in office.

By mid-March, the system had been tried in 10 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and 4,944 people had been recommended to be "people's supervisors".