By 2025, the national procuratorial organs will adhere to the basic value pursuit of handling every case with high quality and efficiency, innovate the role of the criminal procuratorial work guidance group mechanism, coordinate the performance of various responsibilities of criminal procuratorial work, and promote the construction of a higher level of peace in China through higher quality and efficiency legal supervision. Miao Shengming, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, revealed at a press conference on February 5th that from January to November 2025, procuratorial organs across the country will accept, review, and arrest 873000 people, and approve the arrest of 604000 people, a decrease of 15.6% and 12.9% respectively compared to the same period; 1.633 million people were accepted for review and prosecution, and 1.272 million people were prosecuted, a year-on-year decrease of 19.6% and 13.3% respectively. Serious crimes continue to show a downward trend, and the number of frequent crimes that affect people's sense of security has significantly decreased. The national criminal case volume is the lowest since the beginning of this century. The sense of security among the people has remained above 98% for six consecutive years, and the construction of a safer China has been solidly promoted to a higher level. Strengthening the Construction of Basic Functions of Criminal Prosecution: According to a press conference by the Legal Daily, from January to November last year, procuratorial organs across the country prosecuted 49000 people for serious violent crimes such as intentional homicide, robbery, and kidnapping, a year-on-year decrease of 10.3%, accounting for 3.9% of the total number of prosecutions and maintaining a relatively low level of less than 4% for nearly 10 years. Zhang Jianzhong, Director of the Major Crimes Prosecution Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that in recent years, the overall trend of serious violent crimes has been declining, and the proportion of prosecuted cases has continued to remain at a low level, which confirms the continuous improvement of China's social security situation. However, it is worth noting that the forms and methods of serious violent crimes are constantly evolving, with prominent features such as informatization, concealment, organization, and cross regional nature. Major malignant cases occur from time to time, and drug crimes have prominent characteristics of being committed at a young age. Traditional and new fields of crimes that endanger production safety are intertwined. In their work, the procuratorial organs punish extremely vicious crimes severely and quickly in accordance with the law, highlighting the punishment of crimes that are strongly reflected by the people, such as murder, robbery, gun and explosion related crimes, drug production and trafficking, and endangering production safety. They respond promptly to concerns, stabilize people's hearts, and maintain stability. In the continuous deepening of crime governance, the procuratorial organs comprehensively and accurately implement the criminal policy of balancing leniency and severity, prevent and resolve conflicts and risks through standardized judicial cases, abandon the thinking of "case by case", and pay special attention to analyzing the deep-seated reasons, regulatory loopholes, and social governance shortcomings behind serious violent crimes and crimes that seriously endanger public safety. In order to strengthen the construction of the basic functions of criminal prosecution, the Supreme People's Procuratorate organized for the first time last year the nationwide criminal case court appearance support public prosecution evaluation activity, which lasted for six months and evaluated a total of 222 cases, driving more than 7700 self evaluated cases in various provinces (regions, cities), forming a good situation of "dual improvement and promotion of evaluation work and public prosecution quality and efficiency". At the same time, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has established a mechanism for tracking and analyzing abnormal data in criminal trial supervision, led the research and development of normative documents on the issue of evidence review in old murder cases, and released six batches of typical cases around the themes of handling drug cases with high quality and efficiency and punishing dangerous work crimes in accordance with the law, providing reference for the prosecution of serious crimes. Strictly punishing crimes related to black and evil forces, illegal activities of black and evil forces, and telecommunications network fraud in accordance with the law is a prominent type of crime that seriously infringes on the property security and social stability of the people. Miao Shengming said that from January to November last year, the procuratorial organs deeply promoted the normalization of the fight against organized crime and evil, prosecuting 1314 cases involving 8528 people and 58 "protective umbrellas" involved in organized crime and evil. The Supreme People's Procuratorate's Office for Combating Organized Crime has supervised 13 major cases related to organized crime and organized crime, and dispatched a team of experts to review the case files on site and provide guidance, effectively improving the quality and efficiency of case supervision. Hou Yahui, Director of the General Crime Prosecution Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, introduced that in the past year, procuratorial organs across the country have strengthened guidance and handling of major, difficult and complex cases, improved and perfected the normalized mechanism for combating organized crime, strengthened legal supervision, and enhanced the level of rule of law, standardization, and specialization in the fight against organized crime, and strictly punished crimes related to organized crime in accordance with the law. The procuratorial organs have leveraged the unified use of provincial and municipal courts to deal with cases related to organized crime and organized crime, and have lawfully changed or added a batch of cases that are classified as organized crime and organized crime, promoting the integration of "cracking down on organized crime and eliminating organized crime" and "breaking through the internet and using umbrellas", and severely punishing judicial personnel who act as "protective umbrellas" for organized crime and organized crime in accordance with the law. From January to November last year, the procuratorial organs supervised the public security organs to file 41 cases involving 65 people, supervised the withdrawal of 4 cases involving 4 people, corrected 62 missed arrests, corrected 456 omitted accomplices, prosecuted 228 missed crimes, issued 134 supervisory documents such as notices to correct illegal activities, and filed 33 criminal protests against cases involving black and evil. In 2026, we will adhere to strict punishment in accordance with the law, maintain a high-pressure situation, strengthen the guidance and handling of cases under supervision, and increase the efforts of judicial personnel to act as a 'protective umbrella' for black and evil forces to investigate and deal with them; Continuously strengthen the construction of a normalized mechanism for cracking down on organized crime and eliminating evil, deepen the implementation of the unified control system of provincial courts, and effectively achieve 'no omissions, no omissions'; Continuously strengthen the prevention and control of black and evil crimes in key industries such as financial lending, engineering construction, and market circulation, as well as in key areas and populations such as rural areas, clan forces, and minors. We will persist in cracking down on exposed cases and strengthen prevention at the source; Further strengthen the construction of the anti crime and anti evil team, promote the establishment of a talent pool for anti crime and anti evil personnel in provincial procuratorates, carry out regular military training, and continue to build a strong prosecutorial and anti black iron army. ”Hou Yahui said in response to a reporter's question. The innovative mechanism promotes the upgrading of supervision. The reporter learned that the Criminal Prosecution Work Guidance Group played an important role in last year's criminal prosecution work. Since the reform of the internal structure of the Supreme People's Procuratorate in 2018, various criminal prosecution departments have operated according to the division of labor based on charges and the integrated system of arrest and prosecution. Overall, the operation has been smooth, saving judicial resources, improving case handling efficiency and professional level. However, there have also been problems such as the weakening of basic functions such as review and arrest, review and prosecution, and litigation supervision, as well as insufficient overall coordination and unified guidance. In November 2024, the Supreme People's Procuratorate established a guidance group for criminal prosecution work, and also guided 32 provincial-level courts and some larger prefecture level courts to establish guidance groups. In the past year of operation, the Criminal Inspection Guidance Group has continuously established and improved institutional mechanisms to ensure standardized and substantive operation. ——Coordinate and strengthen the "three management". Pay attention to the planning and summary of common work, issue key points for the work of the Criminal Inspection Guidance Group, and unify deployment and promotion. The functions, responsibilities, and operational mechanisms of the four criminal prosecution departments of the Supreme People's Procuratorate have been improved, with clearer division of labor and stronger collaboration. ——Coordinate and strengthen the basic functions of criminal prosecution. Publish guiding cases and normative documents to strengthen guidance around basic functions such as investigation supervision, criminal prosecution, and compulsory measures supervision. ——Coordinate and strengthen major special projects. High quality and efficient completion of the special report on the supervision of criminal punishment execution by the Supreme People's Procuratorate to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Miao Shengming stated that under the overall guidance of the Criminal Prosecution Guidance Group, the non arrest rate and non prosecution rate of the national procuratorial organs will be around 30% and 20% respectively by 2025, maintaining stability. The proportion of not guilty verdicts and withdrawn charges will decrease, and the quality will steadily improve. The application rate of confession and punishment is over 84%, and the first instance conviction rate is 96.8%, maintaining stable application. The decline in the number of criminal procedure supervision has gradually narrowed, and the supervision in some areas has gradually increased, with a month on month increase, further focusing on the supervision of deep-seated and substantive illegal issues, gradually achieving the goal of strengthening and improving quality and efficiency. Next, under the leadership of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Party Group, the Criminal Prosecution Guidance Group will continuously improve its institutional mechanisms, strengthen communication with provincial criminal prosecution guidance groups, further play a coordinating and guiding role, and promote the high-quality development of criminal prosecution work. ”Miao Shengming said. (New Society)