The national conference of chief prosecutors is held in Beijing on Jan 13.
Ying Yong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, addresses the national conference of chief prosecutors.
The national conference of chief prosecutors was held in Beijing on Jan 13, reviewing procuratorial work in 2024 and outlining the main tasks for 2025.
Addressing the meeting, Ying Yong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), emphasized the need to uphold the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of China over procuratorial work, focus on legal supervision, and handle each case with high efficiency and quality, in a bid to better serve the overall development of the country, safeguard justice for people and uphold the rule of law. He called for aligning the performance of procuratorial functions with the primary responsibility of serving Chinese modernization and continuously advancing the practice of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
Ying pointed out that, in the past year, procuratorates throughout the country have carried out their duties of legal supervision in accordance with the law, effectively safeguarding high-level security, serving high-quality development, and enhancing judicial protection of people's livelihoods. They have also comprehensively deepened reforms in the procuratorial field, making new achievements in various aspects, he said.
Ying highlighted the need to steadfastly uphold socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, solidify confidence in the socialist judicial and procuratorial systems, and serve the development of socialist rule of law at a higher level.
He urged procuratorial organs, as the national body for legal supervision and the judicial body for ensuring national laws are implemented in a unified and proper manner, to adhere to core principles, such as treating everybody as equals under the law, no punishment without legal basis, and ensuring proportionality between crime and penalty. He also highlighted the importance of fulfilling the responsibilities prescribed by the law, strictly in accordance with the law and within the boundary of statutory duty.
Noting that maintaining overall social stability is the fundamental responsibility of procuratorial work, Ying called for implementing the holistic approach to national security, coordinating development and security, and resolutely safeguarding national security, social stability and people's well-being.
He emphasized the need to crack down on crimes endangering national security and punish crimes that seriously affect public security.
While combating cybercrimes to foster a clean cyberspace is a priority, he called for greater efforts to adhere to the policy of education, redemption and rehabilitation to pursue prevention and control of juvenile delinquency.
Ying underscored the need to implement the policy of tempering justice with mercy in the fight against criminals to ensure the integration of political, legal and social effects.
He called for upholding and developing the "Fengqiao Experience", a successful model of grassroots dispute resolution in China, and intensifying efforts in resolving conflicts and risks to maintain social stability.
He also urged compliance with the rule of law in handling public grievances in various forms and serving people's well-being by focusing on addressing their immediate concerns.
Ying highlighted the importance of fully and faithfully implementing the new development philosophy and utilizing legal power to serve high-quality economic and social development.
He called on procuratorial organs to actively integrate into the Party and State supervisory system, strengthen synergy between disciplinary inspection and law enforcement, and coordinate efforts in the battle against corruption.
Efforts should be made to rigorously punish serious economic crimes in accordance with the law to protect the market and economic order, and ensure the same penalties for infringement of property rights and legitimate rights and interests of entities under various forms of ownership, he said.
While calling for participation in the special campaigns dedicated to regulating enterprise-related law enforcement, Ying emphasized the importance of strengthening judicial protection of intellectual property rights and serving the development of new quality productive forces.
He highlighted the need to crack down upon financial crimes and make coordinated efforts to prevent and defuse financial risks. He also called for enhancing the capabilities and levels of foreign-related procuratorial work and deepening international judicial cooperation to serve high-level opening-up.
Ying stressed the importance of ensuring that procuratorial work is carried out strictly according to the law and with impartiality. He called for comprehensively strengthening legal supervision over activities such as case filing, investigation, adjudication and judgment enforcement, and intensifying supervision and correction of prominent issues related to lax law enforcement and instances of injustice.
It is essential to always focus on supervision over effective judgments to uphold judicial fairness, he said.
Ying underlined the need to focus on public interest protection, consistently handle cases in statutory areas and improve the quality of case handling.
While calling for establishing a standardized system for handling public interest litigation cases, he emphasized the need to strengthen and regulate the direct acceptance and handling of cases by procuratorial organs.
Noting that the "Four Major Procuratorial Functions" framework, which involves criminal, civil, administrative and public interest litigation prosecution, is the main structure for legal supervision on the new journey in the new era and the basic pattern for further innovative development of procuratorial work, he called for continued promotion of the comprehensive and coordinated development of the functions.
Ying highlighted the importance of improving the system as well as establishing a scientific and well-rounded regulatory mechanism of case handling with high quality and efficiency with focus on implementing and enhancing the judicial accountability system, to ensure that the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.
The judicial accountability system should be comprehensively and accurately implemented while also being continuously improved to keep pace with the times, he said, adding that it is necessary to enhance the mechanism of attributing, identifying and holding those responsible accountable throughout the entire chain.
Ying called for continuously optimizing procuratorial management, and establishing and improving mechanisms and systems for overall analysis of the quality and efficiency of procuratorial work, guidance for procuratorial work of similar nature, monitoring of case handling process, and examination and evaluation of case handling quality, in a bid to better support high-quality and efficient case handling.
He also emphasized the need to establish internal and external checks and balances on exercising procuratorial power, as well as deepen and standardize openness of procuratorial work, to ensure procuratorial power is exercised in a fair, regulated, efficient and corruption-free manner.
Ying stressed the importance of strengthening Party building as the overarching principle in procuratorial work and enhancing capacity building in political awareness.
He called for more efforts to cultivate talents in areas such as finance, foreign-related rule of law, and intellectual property rights, deepen the reform of classified management of procuratorial personnel, and continuously enhance the professional competence of procuratorial teams.
He further emphasized the need to improve the system of full and rigorous governance over procuratorial work, and establish a long-term mechanism for reducing the burden on prosecutors at the grassroots level.
Ying also called for deepening implementation of the digital prosecution strategy to empower legal supervision with technology.
In his concluding remarks at the conference, Tong Jianming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and First Deputy Prosecutor General of the SPP, emphasized the need to focus on the implementation of the guideline on comprehensively deepening procuratorial reforms and further strengthening procuratorial work in the new era, so as to promote the high-quality development of procuratorial work.
He called for coordinated efforts to strengthen systemic governance over public security to effectively maintain overall social stability.
Efforts should be made to further enhance the standardization of procuratorial duty performance and case handling, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of legal supervision, and improve the management of procuratorial work, case handling, and quality control, he said.
Tong called for the implementation of comprehensive measures to prevent risks and ensure security and stability. He urged procuratorial organs to actively participate in the special winter campaign to address wage arrears, calling for joint efforts to resolve issues of unpaid wages for migrant workers to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law.
Officials from central Party and State organs, deputies to the National People's Congress, and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference attend the national conference of chief prosecutors.
Chief prosecutors of provincial-level procuratorates, the chief prosecutor of the Military Procuratorate of the People's Liberation Army, and the chief prosecutor of the Procuratorate of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps are in attendance at the national conference of chief prosecutors.
The director and deputy directors of the Consultative Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate are present at the national conference of chief prosecutors.
Sun Zhenping, Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), officials from central Party and State organs, and a number of NPC deputies and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference all attended the meeting.
Senior officials of the SPP, permanent members of the Procuratorial Committee of the SPP, chief prosecutors of provincial-level procuratorates, the chief prosecutor of the Military Procuratorate of the People's Liberation Army, the chief prosecutor of the Procuratorate of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the director and deputy directors of the Consultative Committee of the SPP, and leading officials of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Committee stationed at the SPP, as well as heads of the departments and directly affiliated units of the SPP, also attended the meeting.
