New regulation leads to drop in petitioned cases

The number of petitions dropped last month along with the implementation of a regulation that forbids people from bypassing authorities to file a complaint, according to official statistics.

Compared with the same period last year, the number of petitioners to the State Bureau for Letters and Calls declined by 35.6 percent in May, and the number of petitioned cases to central authorities dropped by 28.7 percent, said Zhang Enxi, spokesman and also vice-chief of the bureau.

The number of visits to provincial, city and county authorities has decreased by more than 10 percent, 4.4 percent and 4.2 percent respectively, according to the bureau.