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One Minute: Justice, millet, GM food and drug use

By Liu Jing and Liu Wei (chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2015-03-12 15:22:29

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In today's two sessions, sympathy for drug users, millet for the premier, oil standards examined, and no objections to GM food.

One Minute: Justice, millet, GM food and drug use

Zhou Qiang, president of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC), delivers the work report of the SPC to the national legislature at the ongoing annual session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 12, 2015. [Photo by Wu Zhiyi/China Daily]


Justice and integrity upheld

Heads of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) delivered reports on their work respectively on Tuesday.

In his report, China's Chief Justice Zhou Qiang expressed self-reproach for wrongful convictions and urged fellow judges to learn from them.

The SPC will improve the mechanism to effectively prevent and correct wrongful convictions, he said.

Highlights of SPC's work report

One Minute: Justice, millet, GM food and drug use

Cao Jianming, the procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), delivered a work report to national lawmakers during the third session of the 12th National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 12, 2015. [Photo by Wu Zhiyi/China Daily]

Highlighting China's sweeping anti-corruption blitz, the SPP's procurator-general Cao Jianming said in the report that 28 officials at the provincial or ministerial level and higher were placed under judicial investigation for corruption last year.

The officials included Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Xu Caihou, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.

Highlights of SPP's work report

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