The Supreme People's Procuratorate has recently cast a new rule to equalize the standard of state compensation throughout the country, reported Xinhua News Agency Wednesday.

The new rule stipulates that 83.66 yuan (tax free) shall be paid to the aggrieved citizen for each day of wrongful detention or imprisonment pursuant to an average daily wage of urban employees newly released by the State Bureau of Statistics adopted by the State Compensation Law.

Under the old system, local authorities have the right to stipulate their own standards for state compensation, and the inconsistency had long come under heavy criticism for its unequal treatment.

The new standard has erased the differentials of the damages victims get in developed regions and underprivileged areas, resulting from regional economic disparity and inconsistency of the standards.

"The state compensation is not a delayed pay, and every victim, rich or poor, should be equally compensated for the loss of time and freedom," an unidentified official with the Supreme People's Procuratorate told Xinhua.

As to the question of whether an average 8-hour daily wage could cover the losses of the victims who have spend 24-hour a day in cells or prisons, he said that the 83.66 yuan per day is not necessarily a calculation of the losses incurred in wrongful legal actions as detention or imprisonment takes away not only money but also years and families.

However, he express that the state compensation has quintupled to 83.66 yuan per day this year since its debut in 1995, and will keep on rising with the increase of the average daily wage.