The Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has recently released six typical cases highlighting the use of big data legal supervision models in assisting the handling of public interest litigation cases. The release aims to encourage and guide procuratorates nationwide to effectively utilize these models, give full play to their role in enhancing the precision and efficiency of case handling, and to address social governance challenges through public interest litigation.
The released cases span several statutory areas of procuratorial public interest litigation, including ecological environment and resource protection, food and drug safety, protection of State-owned property, workplace safety and anti-monopoly. They include both administrative and civil public interest litigation cases, with the former predominating.
To address challenges such as fraud in medical insurance funds and tax evasion by certain gas stations — issues that are often concealed, highly specialized, and difficult to detect — procuratorial organs have applied big data to enhance the quality and efficiency of legal supervision, which has yielded remarkable progress in resolving industry-specific governance challenges.
In response to persistent and prominent public concerns, such as illegal dumping of construction waste that degrades living environments, difficulties in tracing violators and assigning accountability, illegal use of antibiotic additives in food, and notable safety risks involving special equipment, procuratorial organs have leveraged big data legal supervision models to shift from "manual investigation" to "digital empowerment," significantly improving supervisory efficiency.
In anti-monopoly cases, procuratorial organs have actively explored the use of big data legal supervision models to analyze open-source data, identify high-quality public interest litigation clues and perform data-driven analysis of supervision elements. These efforts compel administrative agencies to perform their duties in accordance with the law and jointly maintain a market environment that promotes fair competition.
According to the head of the SPP's Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department, the department will continue to intensify efforts to promote the use of big data legal supervision models, and advance the standardized and systematic development of their application scenarios, thereby injecting sustained procuratorial momentum into the modernization of the national governance system and capacity.
