China arrests more than 1m suspects in 2018

BEIJING - China's procuratorate authorities approved and decided on the arrests of more than 1.05 million suspects in 2018, according to a national meeting of procurator-generals on Thursday.

Nearly 1.7 million people were indicted in 2018. Among them, 32,078 were charged with crimes of sabotaging financial management or financial fraud, according to sources at the meeting.

More than 6,000 were charged with crimes of polluting the environment, the sources said.