The heads of China's top court and the country's highest legal supervision body delivered their work reports on Monday to the annual session of the National People's Congress.

Zhang Jun, president of the Supreme People's Court, announced that China's courts had concluded 9,326 cases for crimes endangering cyber security over the past five years, an increase of 158.5 percent from the previous five-year period, convicting 22,000 people.

The work report of the Supreme People's Court also said the nation's courts had concluded 36,000 cases involving duty-related crimes such as corruption and bribery in 2025, up 22.4 percent year on year.

The report noted Chinese courts had coordinated efforts to hunt down corrupt officials who fled overseas and strengthen cross-border anti-corruption governance, seizing or confiscating 18.14 billion yuan in illicit gains in 2025, according to the report.

Meanwhile, Ying Yong, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, delivered a work report of the top procuratorate at the meeting.

According to the report, China's procuratorates cracked down on cases involving cyber violence, online rumours, online extortion and internet trolling in accordance with the law, with 182,000 people prosecuted for committing these crimes via the internet.

The report also said procuratorial organs accepted cases against 30,500 people involved in duty-related crime and prosecuted 29,000 people in 2025, up 10.8 percent and 20.5 percent, respectively.

In an effort to address corruption in key sectors, procuratorates prosecuted 9,174 individuals for duty-related crimes in the financial sector, state-owned enterprises and energy sector, said the report. (Xinhua)


Edited by Altis Wong