Top procurator: China environmental crime arrests up to 21 percent

Violations against environmental preservation, property rights, minors and martyrs protection were severely punished in 2018, according to an annual report delivered by CHINA's Procurator-General Zhang Jun on Friday at the second session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), CHINA's top legislature. Over 42,000 people were sued for harming environmental resources by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), a 21 percent increase compared to that in 2017.

In general, the system has approved the arrest of around 1.06 million criminal suspects over the year, a 2.3 percent drop compared to last year; meanwhile, they have prosecuted 1.7 million people, a 0.8 percent drop from 2017.

More supervision has been enforced against criminal acts in all fronts, with cases summed up to the number of 447,940.

CGTN walks you through the highlights of what the SPP has achieved in 2018:

Fight through "three tough battles": Financial risks, poverty andpollution

Property rights preservation remains to be a major task: 8,325 people prosecuted for intellectual property, trademark and business secret infringement, a 16.3 percent increase from last year.

Other criminal acts that have harmed the order the financial markets were also punished harshly, specifically those involving a large group of people.

Zero torelance to poverty relief funds corruption: 1,160 people prosecuted for relief funds abuse.

environmental crime arrests up to 21 percent: 42,195 people sued for harming ecological resources.

The SPP vows to put in more efforts in environmental preservation while setting more restricted standard for pollution-related crimes.