China's national legislature starts 2nd plenary meeting of annual session
Highlights of the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate:
- Twenty three former Chinese officials at the provincial or ministerial level were prosecuted in 2021.
- A total of 43,000 people involving financial fraud or undermining the order of financial administration have been prosecuted last year, up 3.3 percent year on year.
- About 282,000 people were prosecuted for engaging in fraud, gambling or spreading pornographic contents on internet last year, up 98.5 percent from 2020.
- Chinese procuratorial organs filed and handled 169,000 public interest litigation cases in 2021, up 50 percent from 2018.
- A total of 39,000 Chinese procurators have been appointed vice principals in 77,000 primary and middle schools.
- China prosecuted 49,000 people for illegal activities jeopardizing the environment last year, the first decline in eight years.
- China prosecuted 134,000 people on charges of disrupting the order of the market economy in 2021.