CCTV News: On March 9, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued a white paper on the "Four Major Procuratorates". Shi Weizhong, deputy ministerial-level full-time member of the Procuratorate Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that the release of the white paper on the work of the "Four Major Procuratorates" is aimed at promoting the comprehensive, coordinated and full development of the "Four Major Procuratorates", and objectively presents the new progress, new characteristics and new achievements of the procuratorate in adhering to the constitutional positioning of legal supervision and constitutional supervision over the past year and performing the procuratorial duties of criminal, civil, administrative and public interest litigation in accordance with the law; on the other hand, it is also aimed at practicing people's democracy throughout the whole process, accepting social supervision more consciously, more proactively and more sincerely, and strive to promote fairness and improvement through openness, ensuring that the procuratorial power is always exercised for the people, supervised by the people, and satisfy the people.
The white paper on the "Four Major Procuratorates" has comprehensively sorted out the procuratorial work in 2024. In terms of format, in addition to the "preface" and "conclusion", the main part includes two major contents: part is to analyze and explain the case handling situation and main characteristics of criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation prosecution; the other part is to comprehensively display the new measures and achievements of various lines of procuratorial work from different angles such as serving high-quality economic and social development, procuratorial for the people, and strengthening legal supervision. The white paper speaks through data and cases, objectively reflecting the development trend and work quality and efficiency of the "Four Major Procuratorates".
In 2024, the national procuratorate insisted on "handling every case with high quality and efficiency" as the basic value pursuit of procuratorial performance of duties, performed legal supervision responsibilities in accordance with the law, and implemented "business management, case management, and quality management" in one go. A total of 4.099 million cases of various types were handled, including 3.471 million criminal prosecutions, 282,000 civil prosecutions, 195,000 administrative prosecutions, and 151,000 public interest litigation prosecutions, and the proportion of "four major prosecutions" cases was 84:7:5:4. The quality and efficiency of case handling continues to improve, with the rate of guilty judgment in criminal cases being 99.97%; the rate of adoption of supervision opinions on civil and administrative effective judgments being 93% and 84.8% respectively; the court support rate in public interest litigation prosecution cases was 99.5%. Overall, the criminal prosecution supervision of the procuratorate continues to be strengthened, civil prosecution supervision is more effective, administrative prosecution supervision is more powerful, and public interest litigation prosecution is more accurate. All procuratorial work has further returned to the main source of high-quality and efficient case handling, and has played a positive role in fully utilizing the power of the rule of law to maintain stability, promote development, protect people's livelihood, and ensure good governance.
In terms of criminal prosecution work, in 2024, the national procuratorates approved and decided to arrest 753,000 people and prosecute 1.631 million people; not arrest 388,000 people and prosecuted 402,000 people according to law; and handled 757,000 criminal cases of filing, investigation, trial, and execution supervision. The procuratorate fully plays the role of criminal procuratorial participation and full-process supervision functions, insists on punishing crimes and preventing crimes, pays equal attention to strictness and lenientness in accordance with the law, the quality of cases of reviewing arrests and reviewing prosecutions is improving, and the litigation supervision structure is constantly optimized.
In terms of civil procuratorial work, in 2024, the procuratorates across the country accepted 282,000 civil procuratorial cases, and put forward 104,000 supervision opinions on handling supervision cases of effective civil judgments, trial activities, and execution activities. The supervision of civil effective judgments by the procuratorate has developed steadily; attach importance to deep-level illegal supervision, and the supervision of illegal supervision of civil trials and execution activities is more accurate; standardize the boundaries of civil support for prosecution cases, adhere to the positioning of supporting prosecution; continue to strengthen supervision of false litigation, and the high incidence of false litigation has been curbed.
In terms of administrative procuratorial work, in 2024, procuratorates across the country accepted 195,000 administrative procuratorial cases and put forward 32,000 supervision opinions on administrative effective judgments, trial activities, and execution activities supervision cases. The procuratorate has carried out the "high-quality and efficient handling of administrative effective judgment supervision cases", and administrative supervision is more powerful; deepen the supervision of illegal administrative trials and execution activities, and promote the resolution of prominent problems in the field of law enforcement and judicial work; the reverse connection of execution and execution work is carried out in an all-round way, and the substantive resolution of administrative disputes and the promotion of social governance throughout the supervision and case handling.
In terms of public interest litigation prosecution work, in 2024, the national procuratorate handled a total of 151,000 public interest litigation cases, including 136,000 administrative public interest litigation and 15,000 civil public interest litigation. The procuratorate continues to consolidate and deepen the procuratorial public interest litigation system, a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought in the field of public welfare protection. With special legislation as the driving force, it promotes the improvement of the public interest litigation system, insists on improving the accuracy and normativeness through litigation, and continuously improves the quality and efficiency of case handling; it is firmly responsible for handling cases in four statutory fields, and the public welfare supervision in the new statutory fields continues to be deepened.



