For judicial fairness

Last year, 825 defendants were acquitted of the offenses they were charged with, according to the report the president of the Supreme People's Court delivered to the current session of the National People's Congress. During the same period, the Supreme People's Procuratorate urged the withdrawal of 25,211 cases that should not have entered the process of litigation, an increase of 25 percent over the previous year, according to the SPP's report to the session.

It is obvious that both the SPC and SPP are doing what they can to promote judicial fairness and legal justice. The legal propositions made by the SPP to rectify the improper coercive measures that public security departments adopted were more than 70,000 in 2013, an increase of 27 percent. And without the efforts of the prosecutors, more than 39,000 suspects would still be at large.

Just as the SPC president said in his report, assumption of innocence and careful examination of evidence must be maintained as the fundamental principles in judicial practice.