CCTV News: On February 20, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a press conference on "Strengthening Judicial Guarantee of People's Livelihood". This year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate will work with relevant departments to study and issue opinions on handling cases of approval and prosecution of serious violent crimes for young minors and strengthen the hierarchical intervention and correction of minors' crimes and misuse, focus on issues such as illegal reception of minors and minors in e-sports hotels, bars and other places, and promote social governance by issuing prosecutorial recommendations, public interest litigation, situation reports, etc. At the meeting, Wu Jie, director of the Juvenile Procuratorate Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that in the past year, the juvenile procuratorate has focused on overall concepts, functional coordination, and comprehensive protection, adhered to the "multiple investigation in one case" and "multiple investigation in multiple cases", comprehensively used criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation functions to comprehensively strengthen the judicial guarantee for the livelihood of minors.

First, comprehensively use functions such as review of arrest, review of prosecution, and litigation supervision to effectively punish and prevent crimes. The procuratorate, together with the public security organs and the people's courts, severely punishes serious crimes such as violent injury, rape, molestation, and trafficking in accordance with the law, and severely cracks down on adult coercion, seduce, and instigate minors to engage in illegal and criminal activities. Give full play to the role of the investigative supervision and cooperation mechanism. From January to November 2024, personnel were sent to intervene in the investigation of more than 21,000 major and complex cases involving minors. Nearly 1,900 cases were filed for criminal cases involving minors, nearly 900 were corrected for missed arrests, and more than 2,300 accomplices were corrected for missed prosecution. 400 cases of prosecution against adults for crimes against minors were filed.

The second is to vigorously strengthen supervision of civil and administrative litigation and protect all rights and interests involving minors. Focus on key issues in key areas and other key areas, and carry out legal supervision, support for prosecution and other work accurately. From January to November 2024, local juvenile inspection departments supported more than 4,400 prosecutions for cases involving the vital interests of minors, such as requesting payment of child support, requesting change of custody, and requesting personal injury compensation.

The third is to actively carry out public interest litigation for the protection of minors and safeguard the public interests of minors. The procuratorate adheres to problem-oriented approach in its work, focuses on prominent issues such as food safety around campus, personal information security for minors, and Internet cafes for admission of minors, and actively carries out public interest litigation involving the protection of the rights and interests of minors. From January to November 2024, 11,463 cases were filed against public interest litigation involving minors.

Fourth, we will adhere to the principle of going from individual case handling to similar case supervision to social governance, and promote the construction of long-term mechanisms for social governance. Procuratorates in many places have jointly carried out special activities on legal supervision of hotels and entertainment venues for illegal admission of minors in hotels and entertainment venues.