On March 16, the Supreme People's Procuratorate holds a national teleconference to thoroughly study and implement the guiding principles of this year's two sessions, and to deploy specific tasks for procuratorial organs nationwide.
On March 16, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) held a national teleconference to thoroughly study and implement the guiding principles of this year's two sessions, the annual meetings of the nation's top legislative and political advisory bodies, and to deploy specific tasks for procuratorial organs nationwide.
Ying Yong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Prosecutor General of the SPP, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Tong Jianming, First Deputy Prosecutor General of the SPP, presided over the meeting, while Ge Xiaoyan, Deputy Prosecutor General of the SPP, conveyed the guiding principles of the two sessions.
The meeting was broadcast via video link to provincial-level procuratorates and the Military Procuratorate of the People's Liberation Army. A total of 120 deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) participated at both the main and branch venues.
Ying noted that this year's two sessions reviewed and approved the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) for national economic and social development, and adopted the Ecological and Environmental Code, the Law on National Development Planning, and the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. These documents entrust procuratorial organs with significant tasks, Ying said.
He urged procuratorial organs to thoroughly implement the resolution on the SPP work report adopted at the fourth session of the 14th NPC, strengthen procuratorial supervision, enhance public interest litigation, and fulfill their duties as the country's legal supervision bodies to ensure the high-quality and efficient handling of every case.
Ying underscored the importance of facilitating synergy among the rule of law and reforms, development, and stability, and supporting a strong start of the 15th Five-Year Plan with high-quality performance of their duties.
He stressed adhering to a holistic approach to national security, safeguarding political security, comprehensively and correctly implementing the criminal policy of tempering justice with mercy, and resolutely protecting national security, social stability and people's tranquility.
Ying highlighted the high attention paid by NPC deputies and CPPCC National Committee members to procuratorial organs' role in supporting high-quality development and fostering a law-based business environment. He called for sustained efforts to ensure equal legal protection for property rights of enterprises under all forms of ownership, to deepen the integrated performance of duties in intellectual property prosecution, and to collaborate in improving long-term mechanisms for enterprise-related law enforcement and administration of justice. High-quality judicial practices, he added, should underpin high-quality economic and social development.
Furthermore, Ying called for coordinated efforts to improve the social governance system, further develop the integrated system for maintaining law and order, strengthen the law-based handling of public complaints, and effectively carry out special campaigns to resolve such complaints intensively.
He emphasized the continued commitment to combating corruption-related crimes and enhancing procuratorates' role in anti-corruption efforts. Efforts must be intensified to advance procuratorial protection of people's livelihoods and consistently deliver tangible results in serving the public through procuratorial work, so as to meet the expectations of NPC deputies and members of the CPPCC National Committee for stronger judicial protection of people's livelihoods, he said.
Reiterating the resolution on the SPP work report, Ying highlighted its call to "strengthen procuratorial supervision, enhance public interest litigation, and ensure procuratorates' effective fulfillment of their duties as the country's legal supervision bodies". He underscored the need to earnestly implement the resolution, with a focus on safeguarding and advancing social fairness and justice, particularly by strengthening the effectiveness of procuratorial supervision.
Procuratorial organs were urged to assist in advancing legislation on procuratorial public interest litigation while refining supporting systems and mechanisms, to establish a high-quality and efficient case-handling system, and to improve mechanisms for implementing and evaluating judicial fairness within the procuratorial process.
Ying also called on procuratorates to strengthen the study and research of newly enacted and amended laws based on their functions, to provide sound legislative recommendations, and to ensure effective law implementation. Efforts should be made to advance the development of digital prosecution, empowering legal supervision to enhance its quality and efficiency, he added.
Highlighting self-improvement, Ying stated the necessity of improving the judicial accountability system, strengthening checks and balances on the exercise of procuratorial power, and deepening the comprehensive reform of the judicial system.
He called for a more conscious embrace of whole-process people’s democracy, urging procuratorial organs to actively accept supervision from the people's congresses and democratic oversight from the CPPCC, and continuously improve mechanisms for handling suggestions and proposals from deputies to the people's congresses and CPPCC members. This process of being supervised, Ying noted, will continuously refine and enhance procuratorial work.
A number of deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference attend the meeting. Present at the main venue are senior officials of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), permanent members of the SPP Procuratorial Committee, officials of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Committee stationed at the SPP, heads of the departments and directly affiliated units of the SPP, as well as the Party branch chiefs of the SPP's retired cadres.
