China takes tough measures to punish crimes of damaging environment and natural resources
Chinese procuratorial departments have taken tough measures to hold those accountable for criminal activities that jeopardize the environment and natural resources, according to Ying Yong, Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and China's Chief Grand Prosecutor.
October 23, 2023Procuratorial departments committed to strengthening ecological environment and natural resource conservation
Chinese procuratorial departments have taken systematic approaches to promote the building of a large vision concerning the ecological environment and natural resource protection, according to Ying Yong, Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and China's Chief Grand Prosecutor.
October 23, 2023Procuratorial departments handle 823,000 ecological and environmental litigation cases
Chinese procuratorial departments handled 823,000 litigation cases related to ecology and the environment from 2018 to this June, according to Ying Yong, Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and China's Chief Grand Prosecutor.
October 23, 2023China reports progress in crackdown on environmental crimes
Chinese police handled around 260,000 criminal cases involving the damaging of the environmental and resource conservation from January 2018 to June 2023, according to a report by the State Council.
October 21, 2023-
Ying Yong reports to NPC Standing Committee on prosecution work regarding environmental protection and resource conservation
Ying Yong, Secretary of Party Leadership Group and Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), presented a report on procuratorial work regarding environmental protection and resource conservation to the sixth meeting of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee on Oct 21.
October 21, 2023 -
Legal authorities publish reference cases for environmental protection
With the disclosure of several influential public-interest lawsuits involving the environment, China's top judicial authorities said these have played a key role in environmental conservation, calling for prosecutors and judges to continue to promote an ecological civilization.
August 16, 2023 Action targets criminal sea sand mining
The Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the China Coast Guard issued a document to unify legal standards and support the crackdown on the illegal mining of sea sand on Thursday.
June 9, 2023-
Yellow River operation to protect water resources
The Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Water Resources launched an operation on Wednesday to protect water resources and target violations like illegal water intake in the Yellow River Basin.
April 14, 2023
