The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) recently initiated a series of activities for the 2026 National Reading Week. These represent part of efforts to implement the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) for national economic and social development, which calls for furthering national reading activities and fostering a culture of reading in society, and the Regulations on Promoting Public Reading.
The regulations, which came into effect on Feb 1, 2026, designated the fourth week of April each year as National Reading Week. As a result, April 20-26 marked the first National Reading Week since it came into force.
The SPP's Law and Policy Research Office has organized a wide range of innovative online and offline themed activities to create an immersive rule-of-law reading experience.
On April 22, the SPP held a reading salon themed on "Earnestly Studying and Implementing the Ecological and Environmental Code, Promoting High-Level Protection of Ecological Environment through High-Quality Procuratorial Performance" — an initiative designed to promote the implementation of the code.
On April 23, the SPP launched the seventh National Prosecutors' Reading and Essay Competition under the theme of "Advancing the Development of the Five Major Systems for High-quality Case Handling, Comprehensively Enhancing the Quality and Efficiency of Legal Supervision".
A series of additional activities have also been held, including the launch and trial use of legal knowledge databases as well as relevant training.
Furthermore, reader-sharing activities featuring Citywalk tours at rule-of-law landmarks were organized to help participants gain a deeper understanding of the country's progress in rule-of-law development.
The SPP views the first National Reading Week as an opportunity to strengthen procuratorial development through cultural enrichment, with a focus on reinforcing its cultural foundations and vitality.
It also encourages procuratorial personnel to pursue lifelong learning, improve their comprehensive quality and duty performance capabilities, and contribute wisdom and strength to the high-quality development of procuratorial work in the new era.
