NATION AIMS TO UNDO, PREVENT, WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS

Thousands of flawed judgments have been overturned in the past five years, as Cui Jia and Cao Yin report.

On Sunday night, Zhou Yuan joined the Spring Festival travel rush by taking a train to Yining, his hometown in the northwest of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, where he will celebrate China's most important holiday.

This week, Zhou, 48, will celebrate his first Spring Festival following the quashing of his wrongful conviction for a string of sexual attacks that put him behind bars for 15 years.