(Two Sessions Express) The "Two Highs" report pointed to cyber crimes: 142,000 people were prosecuted last year, and 33,000 cases of telecommunications network fraud were concluded.

  China News Service, Beijing, March 8. The work report of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate were submitted to the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress for deliberation on the 8th.

Both reports pointed to cybercrime.

  The Supreme Court report pointed out that in the past year, courts across the country have concluded 33,000 criminal cases such as telecommunications network fraud, network pyramid schemes, network gambling, network hacking, and network rumors.

Trial cases of Chen Wenxiong's extraordinarily large cross-border telecommunications fraud, Wang Ai's buying and selling of other people's social platform accounts, and severely punish crimes of infringement of citizens' property and citizens' personal information.

  The Supreme Law report emphasizes that all those who refuse to perform their cybersecurity management obligations and provide help for information cybercrimes shall be punished in accordance with the law.

Severely punish a group of cyber black and gray industry chain crimes, and never let cyberspace become a place outside the law.

  The Supreme People’s Procuratorate also actively participates in online governance. Last year, 142,000 people were prosecuted for cyber crimes, a year-on-year increase of 47.9% in the context of a decline in the total number of criminal cases.

In response to the accelerated spread of traditional crimes to the Internet, a dedicated procuratorial case handling steering group has been set up to formulate 65 standards for prosecution and accusation of crimes, make good use of the professional assisted case handling system, and promote strict governance of the Internet in accordance with the law.

  While severely punishing cyber crimes, in order to promote the healthy development of the digital economy, the Supreme Law clarifies rules for the development of the digital economy and technological innovation through fair judgments, and guides the development of new technologies, new formats and new models on the track of the rule of law.

  For example, the Supreme Law has jointly carried out special rectification of the webcast industry to purify the network ecology; reviewing the case of advanced payment on demand for video websites, standardizing business model innovation, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of users; strengthening new business formats such as foreign riders, courier brothers, and online car-hailing drivers Protection of the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners.

  The Supreme People's Procuratorate expanded the scope of cases and filed 27,000 cases of public welfare damage in new areas that have strongly reflected the public, which is 3.4 times the number in 2019.

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