China beefs up crackdown on environment-related crimes
Xinhua |
Updated: 2020-05-25 17:06
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BEIJING -- China prosecuted 50,800 people in 2019 for environment-related crimes including damaging the environment and smuggling imported waste, up 20.4 percent year on year, a work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate showed Monday.
A total of 69,236 public interest litigations in the environmental domain were handled in 2019, up 16.7 percent, according to the report submitted to the ongoing national legislative session for deliberation.
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