Han told the on-going annual session of the 10th National People's Congress that public prosecutors participated actively in concentrated or special campaigns to crack down on criminal rings, gun- and explosive-related crimes, drug-related crimes, and women-and child-trafficking.

In the last five years, procuratorial organs cross China approved the arrest of 411,379 criminal suspects involved in organized crimes of underworld in nature and other crimes like explosion, murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery, and prosecuted 410,511, Han said in his report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

The procuratorial organs also played a role in rectifying and regularizing the market economic order, by punishing smuggling, financial frauds, tax evasion, dodge of foreign exchange control and infringement of intellectual property rights, Han said. In the past five years, they approved the arrest of 116,932 suspects implicated in these kinds of crimes and prosecuted 106,910.

(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2003)