China currently has 148,555 judges at grassroots courts, making up 76.33 percent of the country's total, according to the nation's top judge.

The judges are working at 3,133 grassroots courts, said Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court, Tuesday while addressing the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) held from Oct. 22 to 27.

Since 2000, the judges have finished more than 20.78 million cases in which 1.031 trillion yuan (about 503.9 billion US dollars) are involved, Xiao said.

Of those, 2,374,860 were criminal cases, 18,054,362 civil cases and 353,797 administrative cases.

Source: Xinhua