Chinese courts conclude 34,000 graft trials last year: report

(Xinhua) Updated : 2016-03-13

Chinese courts concluded 34,000 graft trials in 2015 with about 49,000 people involved in the cases, a report said Sunday.

The figure included 134 officials at prefecture level and above, said the report on the work of the Supreme People's Court (SPC).

Another 2,495 people were convicted of offering bribes, according to the report to be delivered by Chief Justice Zhou Qiang on Sunday.