China News Agency, Beijing, January 9th, title: ten "key words" to see where China's "two high" work will work this year
China News Agency reporter Zhang Su
The National Conference of Presidents of High Courts and the National Conference of Chief Prosecutors were held concurrently on the 8th. The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China respectively made arrangements for this year's court work and procuratorial work.
Through the ten "key words", we can see where the "two highs" come from.
"Punish crime"
Focusing on maintaining national security and social stability, both meetings proposed that crimes that endanger food and drug safety, telecommunications and network fraud, and infringement of citizens' personal information should be punished in accordance with the law.
In addition, the Supreme Law requires courts at all levels to crack down on violations and crimes such as infringement and counterfeiting, smuggling, endangering tax collection and management, and seed industry provenance.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate requires procuratorial organs to actively participate in special rectifications such as safety production risks.
"Benefits of leniency and strictness"
The Supreme Law reiterated that courts at all levels must accurately grasp the criminal policy of combining leniency with strictness, unswervingly implement the party and state's death penalty policy, and ensure that the death penalty is only applied to a very small number of criminals who have committed extremely serious crimes and have sufficient evidence.
In the past year, the procuratorial organs have comprehensively and accurately implemented the criminal policy of combining leniency with strictness, thoroughly implemented the criminal justice policy of less arrest, careful prosecution and careful detention, and coordinated the implementation of the leniency system for pleading guilty and accepting punishment. The annual application rate of the system exceeded 85%, and the adoption rate of sentencing recommendations was 98.3%; The first-instance conviction rate was 97%, 29.5 percentage points higher than other criminal cases.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate pointed out that the principle of less arrest, more careful prosecution and more careful detention is by no means blindly lenient.
"Sweeping black and evil"
The procuratorate prosecuted 14,000 people for gang-related crimes last year.
When deploying this year's work, the Supreme People's Procuratorate proposed to "strike black and evil forces as soon as they appear, and prevent their resurgence."
The Supreme Law requires courts at all levels to severely punish serious violent crimes such as homicide, robbery, guns and explosives, and promote the normalization of anti-crime and evil.
"bribery"
In 2022, the procuratorial organs insisted on investigating both bribery and bribery, and prosecuted 8,380 people for bribery crimes and 2,563 people for bribery crimes.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has also issued procuratorial opinions on the handling of bribery crime cases and published typical cases of bribery crimes.
Facing this year, both meetings proposed to increase the punishment of bribery crimes.
At the same time, the Supreme Law requires courts at all levels to promote the application of the absentee trial system and actively participate in the pursuit of fugitives and stolen goods abroad.
"intellectual property"
The introduction of judicial interpretations on the jurisdiction of first-instance intellectual property cases and the introduction of opinions to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights in traditional Chinese medicine have attracted much attention.
This year, the Supreme Court stated that it will increase the judicial protection of intellectual property rights in key core technologies and emerging fields, and will promote the improvement of the national-level intellectual property case appeal mechanism.
According to statistics, the procuratorate prosecuted 13,000 people for intellectual property infringement crimes last year, and handled 937 civil and administrative litigation supervision cases of intellectual property rights, a year-on-year increase of 72.2%.
While emphasizing the continuous promotion of intellectual property criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation, the Supreme People's Procuratorate proposed to deepen the special supervision of intellectual property malicious litigation.
"real estate"
Both meetings mentioned preventing and defusing risks in the real estate sector.
Among them, the Supreme Law requires courts at all levels to implement the positioning that houses are for living in, not for speculation, cooperate with the work of ensuring the delivery of buildings, people's livelihood, and stability, increase efforts to prevent and resolve conflicts and disputes in related fields, and resolutely Punish relevant illegal and criminal acts in accordance with the law.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate requires the procuratorial organs to punish crimes in the financial field according to law, attach great importance to preventing and defusing risks in the real estate field, increase anti-money laundering efforts, strengthen recovery of stolen goods and recover damages, and maintain a healthy and orderly economic and financial environment.
It is known that the procuratorate prosecuted 2,585 people for money laundering crimes last year, doubling the year-on-year increase.
"Judicial Protection of People's Livelihood"
Both meetings called for strengthening the judicial protection of people's livelihood.
Among them, the Supreme Law stated that it is necessary to always take the voice of the people as the first signal, and properly try cases involving education, employment, medical care, housing and other areas of people's livelihood in accordance with the law.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate pointed out that employment is the most basic livelihood of the people.
It is necessary to crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as "black job agencies" and false recruitment in accordance with the law, handle civil and administrative supervision cases involving labor disputes and employment disputes in accordance with the law, effectively strengthen public interest litigation in the field of labor rights and interests, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of employees and laborers.
"green"
Last year, procuratorial organs prosecuted 37,000 people for crimes of destroying environmental resources; they handled 95,000 public interest lawsuits in the field of ecological environment and resource protection, an increase of 8.3% year-on-year.
This year, the Supreme Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate will respectively report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on strengthening environmental resources trial work and ecological environment procuratorial work.
The Supreme Law requires courts at all levels to improve systems and rules for ecological and environmental public interest litigation, ecological compensation, and ecological and environmental damage compensation, and to properly hear new types of cases such as pollution emission trading and green finance.
"Digitizing"
In the digital age, the judiciary is actively transforming.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has set up a leading group for digital prosecutorial work and its office to promote the implementation of a digital prosecutorial strategy.
This move is intended to empower legal supervision with the digital revolution, and strive to improve the quality and efficiency of legal supervision in the new era.
The Supreme Court stated that it will strengthen the establishment of technical standards and rule innovation for smart courts, guided by the construction of judicial data centers, smart court brains, and online courts.
"modernization"
To grasp the historical position of court work and procuratorial work in the new era and new journey, the "two highs" emphasize the word "modernization".
Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People's Court, stated that it is necessary to "focus on vigorously promoting the modernization of political and legal work, accelerate the modernization of the judicial system and judicial capabilities, and contribute to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country that has a good start."
Zhang Jun, chief procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, stated that it is necessary to "actively perform legal supervision duties in accordance with the law, integrate and assist the modernization of political and legal work with the modernization of procuratorial work, and serve Chinese-style modernization."
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