China advanced its efforts in public interest litigation and related legislation in 2024, Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Ying Yong said on Saturday.
Procuratorial organs nationwide strengthened their work on public interest lawsuits in the past year, and filed and handled a total 151,000 public interest litigation cases, Ying said while delivering a report at the second plenary meeting of the third session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature.
"In 2024, Chinese prosecutorial authorities worked to deepen public interest litigations, initiating and processing 151,000 cases of public interest litigations in the year. 2024 marked the 10th anniversary of the proposal to explore the establishment of the system of public interest litigations initiated by procuratorial organs, which was made at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Over the past decade, procuratorial organs across China have handled 1.117 million public interest litigation cases across 14 fields, worked with the NPC Standing Committee to advance legislation on public interest litigation, and worked to turn President Xi Jinping's thinking on the rule of law in the area of the public interest protection into legal rules as an original creation," he said.
The third session of the 14th NPC runs in Beijing from March 5 to 11.
Chinese prosecutorial authorities successfully work to advance public interest litigation: procurator-general
