BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- 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, according to a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate unveiled Tuesday.
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Twenty three former Chinese officials at the provincial or ministerial level were prosecuted in 2021, according to a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate submitted Tuesday to the ongoing national legislative session for deliberation.
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- A new electoral system for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) ensures that the region is administered by patriots, top legislator Li Zhanshu said Tuesday when delivering a work report of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee. The new system provides fundamental political and institutional safeguards for good governance of Hong Kong that is based on China's Constitution and the HKSAR Basic Law and that ensures genuine implementation of the policy of "one country, two systems," Li said while reviewing the work of the NPC Standing Committee over the past year.
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- China accelerated legislation on ecological conservation in 2021, setting a legal red line for protecting natural resources and the environment, according to a work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature. Last year, the NPC Standing Committee formulated the Wetlands Protection Law to strengthen wetland protection and restoration and to protect biodiversity, according to the work report submitted Tuesday to the fifth session of the 13th NPC for deliberation.