Specialized training for 140,000 prosecutors

China will introduce specialized training courses for about 140,000 prosecutors nationwide in a bid to "strengthen their supervisory skills as well as their ability to handle cases", the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said yesterday.

The move is aimed at "plugging any inadequacies that prosecutors may face in their comprehensive and specialization duties", the SPP guidelines on procuratorial education and training up to 2012, released yesterday, said.

"There is still some way to go for strict, fair and civilized legal enforcement," it said.