Mechanism in place to ensure fair rulings

Move follows rise in number of litigants unhappy with administrative sentences

Chinese prosecutors have stepped up supervision over verdicts and procedures in administrative litigation to ensure laws are accurately applied and justice is firmly upheld, according to a report being reviewed by legislators.

"In recent years, we've seen a significant growth in the number of cases in which litigants were unhappy with effective administrative adjudication and applied to us for supervising the court decisions," Ying Yong, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said while delivering the report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Tuesday.

Data released in the report showed that from 2019 to last year, prosecutors across the country handled 87,000 such cases, up nearly threefold from the previous five years, with an average annual increase of 22 percent.