China's national legislature starts 2nd plenary meeting of annual session

Highlights of the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate:

- Twenty three former Chinese officials at the provincial or ministerial level were prosecuted in 2021.

- A total of 43,000 people involving financial fraud or undermining the order of financial administration have been prosecuted last year, up 3.3 percent year on year.

- About 282,000 people were prosecuted for engaging in fraud, gambling or spreading pornographic contents on internet last year, up 98.5 percent from 2020.

- Chinese procuratorial organs filed and handled 169,000 public interest litigation cases in 2021, up 50 percent from 2018.

- A total of 39,000 Chinese procurators have been appointed vice principals in 77,000 primary and middle schools.

- China prosecuted 49,000 people for illegal activities jeopardizing the environment last year, the first decline in eight years.

- China prosecuted 134,000 people on charges of disrupting the order of the market economy in 2021.