Introduction of the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors
The Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors is a nationwide mass organization legal person composed by voluntary public prosecutors from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China, local people’s procuratorates at various levels, military procuratorates, and other special people’s procuratorates. The legal representative is the Secretary-General of the Association. The predecessor of the Association is China Procuratorate Society which was approved and founded on Oct. 3, 1986. It changed its name to the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors on Jun. 27, 1996 with the approval of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The Association is based in Beijing and managed by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China.
The organization structure of the Association includes the members’ congress, the board of directors, the executive board of directors, and the president meeting dealing with official business. The members’ congress consists of group members and individual members, which is the highest organ of power in the Association. Its main function is to formulate and modify the charter of the Association, elect the members of the board of directors, recommend honorable president, discuss and decide important issues of the Association. The Association board of directors is elected by the member’s congress, which is the executive unit of the members’ congress.
The honorable presidents of the Association are Mr. Liu Fuzhi, Mr. Zhang Siqing and Mr. Han Zhubin, who are former Procurators-General of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Jia Chunwang, the Procurator-General of the SPP, serves as the president of the Association. Mr. Zhang Geng, the Executive Deputy Procurator-General of the SPP, serves as the Executive Vice President of the Association. The Vice Presidents of the Association include Mr. Qiu Xueqiang, Ms. Hu Kehui, Mr. Zhao Dengju, Mr. Zhao Hong, Mr. Wang Zhenchuan, Mr. Zhu Xiaoqing, and Mr. Jiang Jianchu, who are Vice Procurators-General of the SPP; Mr. Ye Qingchun, the Head of the Discipline Inspection Group in the SPP delegated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC; Mr. Zhang Changren, the Chief of the Political Department of the SPP. Mr. Zhang Zhihui, the Chairman of the Institute of Procuratorate Theories of the SPP, serves as the Secretary-General of the Association. The Executive directors of the Association are served by President, Vice-President Secretary-General, Procurators-General from people’s procuratorates in various provinces, military procuratorate, and People’s Procuratorate of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, senior officials from bureaus and agencies of the SPP, and the Executive Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Women Public Prosecutors.
The permanent unit dealing with day-to-day business of the Association is Secretariat which is led by the Secretary-General. The Secretariat and the Institute of Procuratorate Theories of the SPP share the same office and other resources.
The members of the Association include group members and individual members. Those who agree to abide by the Association’s charter and voluntarily pay membership fee can present applications to the Association and become group and individual members of the Association. The group members can be applied by the associations ( the societies ) of public prosecutors of various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, the associations of public prosecutors in special administrative regions, the associations of public prosecutors of national special people’s procuratorates, the associations of public prosecutors of provincial capital cities and autonomous regional capital cities, the associations of public prosecutors of sub-provincial cities, the associations of public prosecutors of cities in special economic zones, and the associations of public prosecutors in prefecture and city levels. The individual members can be applied by the public prosecutors of people’s procuratorates at various levels and the retirees who once held the posts of assistant public prosecutors and above in various people’s procuratorates.
The purposes of the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors are to unite the public prosecutors throughout the country, promote the procuratorial information and academic exchange, research procuratorial theory, raise the professional competence of the public prosecutors, develop the spirit of devotion and decent behavior in procuratorial field, honesty and strict enforcement in law practice, improve the prosecutors’ professional ethics, publicize the features and obligations of the public prosecutors and the people’s procuratorates in the course of building socialist democracy and the legal system of China, improve the prosecutors’ social status, take care their lives, safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, expand their connective channels to the outside world in order to promote the understanding and friendship between the Chinese public prosecutors and the public prosecutors in all countries and regions of the world, and work for the goals of perfecting the socialist procuratorial system with Chinese characteristics, governing the country according to the law and making China a socialist country ruled by law.
The academic activities of the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors include formulating the research planning of procuratorial theory, organizing and harmonizing the research activities of procuratorial theory, holding the national research annual meetings of procuratorial theory, seminars and training classes of regional procuratorial theory and business, exchanging research achievements in procuratorial theory and working experience in procuratorial practice, organizing social survey, providing suggestions and advisory opinions for procuratorial work in order to improve the public prosecutors’ professional competence and quality in law enforcement; editing and publishing the Chinese Criminal Science ( bimonthly magazine, available both domestic and abroad), Chinese Procuratorial Forum (bimonthly, interior materials), The Newsletter of the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors (Interior exchange) and other journals, organizing and promoting the cooperation and exchange between the Association and other academic groups and organizations, and conducting international academic exchanges and friendly connections.
Since the foundation of the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors, it has held five annual meetings of national procuratorial theoretical research successively and seminars on special topics, such as “strengthening the function of legal supervision for procuratorial units”, “procuratorial work and human rights protection”, “anti-corruption practices and social stability and progress”, “training program for research professionals in procuratorial theory”, “a seminar on criminal evidence”, “a seminar on the importance of procuratorial units in Constitution”, “a seminar on the prevention of overdue detainment and the guarantee of human rights”, “a seminar on service theory of optimizing economic environment in procuratorial unit”, “a seminar on the criteria of criminal prosecution, etc.. The Association has edited and published many research results, including Research on Prosecution Issues, Overseas Legal System Innovation and Tendency, Research on the Hot Issues of Legal System Innovation, Comparative Research on the Importance and Guidance of Public Prosecutors, Chinese Prosecution (Volume 1-6), Overdue Detainment and Human Rights Protection, Law and Policy Practice in Strike-hard, The Chinese Procuratorial System Compendium, etc.. The Association has established cooperative relations with the Chinese Law Society, the Chinese Judge Association, the Chinese Lawyer Association, the Chinese Police Society, the Chinese Prison Society and other national non-governmental academic groups. It also has widely established close connection with overseas judicial organs and academic institutions. It has received many relevant delegations, experts and scholars from UK, France, Germany, USA, Canada, Denmark, Russian, Viet Nam, etc., and has sent representatives or delegations to visit tens of countries, such as USA, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, etc..
As an initiator and group member of the International League for Prosecutors, the Chinese Association of Public Prosecutors participated in the annual meetings and all kinds of activities held by ILP. The Association undertook the executive board meeting of the International League for Prosecutors in 1999, and successfully held the annual meeting of it in 2000.
The sources of the Association funds are the appropriation of the SPP, the governmental subsidize, the financial aid or donation from domestic and abroad, the legal income from conducting various activities, and the membership fees.
The address of the Association: No.147 Beiheyan St, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Post Code: 100726
Tel: 8610-6863 0204 Fax: 8610-6863 0141
