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•Punishing the criminals of committing embezzle and theft exposed during the movements against the "Three Evils" and the "Five Evils" to eliminate the bad influence of the old society;
•Handling the Japanese war criminals;
•Handling ten principal criminals of Lin-Biao and Jiang-Qing counter-revolutionary cliques.
In 1999, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a number of publications pertaining to the history of the people’s court have been published among which the significant ones are as follows:
Collection of Historical Data Regarding Judicial Statistics of National People’s Courts: 1949-1998 (Law Press, 2000). This is the most useful judicial statistical source book ever published in China. Compiled by the Research Department of the Supreme People’s Court, it collects a wealth of valuable data of judicial statistics recording chronologically the various kinds of cases tried by national courts at different levels from 1949 to 1999. Many statistics, especially those in the period of "Culture Revolution" (1966-1976), are published for the first time in this book. The whole book consists of three volumes according to the type of cases. The first volume contains criminal cases; and the second, civil, economic and administrative cases; and the third, cases decided by higher courts at provincial level. Each volume contains two parts, the first part involves the consolidated figures of the cases sentenced by national courts of all levels and the second part, the primary data reported by courts of whole country.
Another historical book is the Collection of Report on the Work of the Supreme Peoples’ Procuratorate (China Procuratorial Press, 1999) which embraces work reports delivered by the chief procurators of the Supreme Peoples’ Procuratorate at all the previous National People’s Congress from 1955 to 1999 and is an authoritative source searching for the historical documents and events of national procuratorial work in the past 50 years.
Local Judicial Chronicles
Annals is a very useful information sources recording historical events and documents. China has a fine tradition in compiled chronicles. From 1990s the publication of judicial annals have mushroomed everywhere in China. Many courts at different levels compiled their own annals and in some provincial annals there is also a judicial volume within it. Here is a list of judicial annals below:
•Court Annals of Baotou City (Inner Mongolia People’s Press, 1990);
•Court Annals of Chengdu City (Sichuan People’s Press, 1997);
•Court Annals of Chuxiong Prefecture (Yunnan University Press, 1997);
•Justice Annals of Xianyang City (Shaanxi Peeople’s Press, 1997);
•Justice Annals of Yulin Prefecture (Shaaxi People’s Press, 1999);
•Court Annals of Jinhua City (Annals Press, 1999);
•Court Annals of Jingjiang District of Chengdu City (Sichuan Dictionary Press, 1999);
•Court Annals of Wuyi County (Zhejiang People’s Press, 2000);
•Court Annals of Jinan City (Shandong People’s Press, 2002);
•Henan Provincial Annals: Vol.20: Justice and Administration of Justice Chronicle (Henan People’s Press, 1993);
•Jiangsu Provincial Annals: Justice (Jiangsu People’s Press, 1997);
•Sichuan Provincial Annals: Public Security & Justice (Sichuan People’s Press, 1997);
•Hubei Provincial Annals: Justice (Hubei People’s Press, 1998);
•Shandong Provincial Annals: Justice (Shandong People’s Press, 1998).
These annals commonly records the historical materials and events about local justice work, and chronicle the changes and development of judicial organs, adjudication, brief biography of judge, historical documents and photos. They mirror from one side the justice work of China.
Online Sources
On 22 January, 1999, CHINA TELECOM and the Information Center of State Economic & Trade Commission (http://www.setc.gov.cn/), combined with another forty or more central governmental institutions responsible for information work, sponsored jointly an e-government project called the Online Government Programme (http://www.gov.cn), for the purpose of promoting the information construction of the government. From that point on government agency sites on the Internet have proliferated rapidly. Today, over 2,400 governmental web sites, at both central and local levels, have been set up, among which are included nearly 100 court and Procuratorate web sites. The major ones are as follows:
Court Website
The Supreme People’s Court (In Chinese) http://www.court.gov.cn/.
This site includes many columns such as Greetings of President, Organizational Structure of Court, Judicial Interpretation, Announcement of Hearing, Judgments, Typical Cases, Press and Information, etc. and includes a lot of authoritative judicial information. In the column of Judicial Interpretation it contains the judicial documents issued by the Supreme People’s Court in recent years; and in Judgments it includes nearly one hundred and fifty written judgments involving civil, criminal and administrative cases decided by the Supreme People’s Court from 1999 to the present; and in Typical Cases it carries in full text some of the latest appeal cases tried by the Supreme People’s Court.
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