Supreme People's Procuratorate opens its doors to visitors

The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) welcomed more than 230 visitors chosen randomly through the internet on the 31st open day event of SPP on Aug 17. It is the first time for SPP to invite visitors by random selection, Zhang Jun, procurator-general of the SPP, said.

More than 23,000 citizens aged from 10 to 80 submitted applications through the SPP website and WeChat account. The SPP randomly selected 200 people from all applicants and took them to tour the SPP office building, including the history room, the conference room and big data center, and attended lectures given by prosecutors.

During previous open day events, SPP only invited visitors from certain group of people, including students, military police officers, deputies from National People's Congress and members of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.

The number of the visitors this time was the largest in the event's history. During the one-day tour, visitors were divided into four groups, two in the morning and the rest in the afternoon.

"My son helped me to submit the application on the SPP website, and I am glad to have the opportunity to visit it," said Xu Dianqin, an 80-year-old woman from Shandong province.

Zhou Huiyong, a prosecutor of the SPP, told the visitors that from January to June 2019, procurator organs nationwide approved the arrest of 36,534 people in 12,345 criminal cases, and prosecuted 4,063 people in 6,928 criminal cases.

"I used to feel that the SPP were mysterious, but after today's tour, I feel more secure after I learned the daily work of the prosecutor, especially after hearing the progress of the special campaigns to fight against crime," Xu said.

"It is my first time to visit the SPP, and I learned a lot about the SPP," a 13-year-old girl surname Xin said. "I heard the SPP established the ninth procurator office especially for the protection of the minors, and I will share this news with my classmates."

Procurator-general told the visitors that: "I hope that after you get to know us, you could help to supervise more than 200,000 prosecutors in China whether they have fully performed their duties."