Supreme Procuratorate: Severe punishment for crimes endangering production safety, online fraud, etc. Those who should be arrested will be arrested, and those who should be prosecuted will be prosecuted.

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27/05/2026
The Information Office of the State Council held a series of themed press conferences entitled "Starting the '15th Five-Year Plan' Period" to introduce the progress of advancing the rule of law in an all-rounded manner. During the press conference, Deputy Prosecutor General and Senior Prosecutor Miao Shengming of the Supreme People's Procuratorate stated that procuratorial organs will fulfill their responsibilities as the national legal supervision agency, promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation prosecution work, adhere to the principles of daring supervision, being good at supervision, and being brave in self-supervision, comprehensively enhance the quality and efficiency of legal supervision, and safeguard and promote social fairness and justice. Enhance supervision over compulsory measures that affect citizens' personal rights, such as "seizures, seizures, freezes" and other compulsory measures, the enforcement of criminal penalties, and the enforcement of civil judgments; strengthen targeted supervision. Conduct procuratorial investigations in accordance with the law, prosecute crimes committed by judicial personnel abusing their powers, such as favoritism, illegal detention, and forced confessions, and severely punish judicial corruption. Dare to self-supervise, improve the internal restrictive supervision mechanism of procuratorial powers, accept the constraints of law enforcement and judicial duties in accordance with the law, and ensure that procuratorial powers are exercised in a fair, efficient, and clean manner. Procuratorial organs will comprehensively and accurately implement the policy of combining leniency with severity in criminal matters, always prioritize defending political security, decisively crack down on activities of hostile forces infiltrating, sabotaging, subverting, and splitting the country, strictly punish crimes endangering national security, and resolutely safeguard national political power security, institutional security, and ideological security. Severely punish crimes of serious violence, involvement in firearms and explosives, being linked to criminal organizations, endangering production safety, and telecommunications network fraud, which are strongly reflected by the people; arrest and prosecute accordingly. In particular, for major and heinous crimes such as individual extremism, quickly arrest and prosecute in accordance with the law, and crack down more effectively to deter crime and stabilize public order. Continuously implement the criminal cases related to drunk driving, concealing and disguising criminal proceeds, and aiding and abetting information network criminal activities in accordance with relevant judicial interpretations and guidance opinions, strictly distinguish between guilt and innocence, illegality and crime, and handle lighter crimes more leniently in accordance with the law, ensuring that the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.