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China convicts 4,525 civil servants in five years

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-27 09:21

BEIJING  -- Chinese courts at all levels had convicted 4,525 civil servants above the level of county head in the recent five years, Wang Shengjun, president of the Supreme People's Court, said on Sunday.

In a report on maintaining judicatory fairness delivered by the supreme court to the National People's Congress Standing Committee, Wang said that the number of convicted civil servants above the level of county head from 2003 to June 2008 had increased by 77.52 percent compared with those in the previous five years.

According to Wang, criminal cases and offenders which seriously jeopardized social orders in the five years were 1.2 million and 1.6 million, up 27.41 percent and 32.82 percent respectively over the previous five years.