Courts braced to protect social stability
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CHINA’S top court and procuratorate yesterday pledged to help to maintain social stability and boost economic growth, ahead of a key Communist Party of China congress to be convened in the second half of this year.
“[We will] resolutely protect the nation’s political security, in particular the security of the state power and the political system,” Chief Justice Zhou Qiang said.
The CPC will hold its 19th National Congress to elect a new leadership for the next five years.
Presenting a work report of the Supreme People’s Court at a plenary meeting of the National People’s Congress annual session, Zhou said Chinese courts would help to create a “safe and stable” social environment as well as a fair and just legal environment.
Zhou pledged to keep a firm hand on crimes undermining national security and on violent and terrorist crimes in accordance with the law.
To maintain social stability, courts would strike hard on severe criminal offenses such as murder and robbery, and hand out due sentences for those involved in telecoms and Internet fraud, the chief justice said.
Procurator-General Cao Jianming pledged to severely punish infiltrating, subversive and sabotage activities by hostile forces, violent and terrorist crimes, ethnic separatist activities and religious extremist activities, to “safeguard security, protect stability and promote harmony.”
Crimes involving mafia-like gangs, guns, explosives, drug making and trafficking, women and children trafficking, as well as crimes undermining national defense and military interests would also face harsh penalties, Cao said in a report on the work of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
Last year, courts convicted a number of people on charges of subverting state power.
The chief justice and procurator-general noted the importance China’s judiciary puts in promoting social and economic development.
This year, the SPC will perfect the country’s bankruptcy trial system to help to cut overcapacity and facilitate the supply-side structural reform, one of the top priorities of economic reform.
China’s courts will also step up trials of foreign-related business and maritime cases to serve the Belt and Road Initiative and the strategy of building China into a major maritime power.
The SPC said the country would step up the trials of intellectual property rights cases this year to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship.
China improved intellectual property rights protection rules last year by making judiciary interpretations on trials of certain kinds of cases, including patent right cases, Zhou said.
Cao said Chinese prosecutors would strike hard on crimes that involved disturbing market order, infringement of intellectual property rights and encroachment of special government funds.
They would focus on crimes undermining food and drug safety and environmental protection, Cao added.
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