Chinese lawmakers on Friday elected Zhou Qiang president of the Supreme People's Court, making the 52-year-old the 10th chief justice since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.
On the same day, during the annual session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, NPC deputies also re-elected Cao Jianming, now 57, to a second term as procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Cao is the PRC's ninth chief procurator.
As the country's highest judicial organ, the Supreme People's Court oversees the administration of justice by local people's courts at multiple levels, as well as special courts. The president of the Supreme People's Court is also the country's chief justice.
Similarly, as the highest procuratorial organ, the Supreme People's Procuratorate leads local procuratorates at multiple levels and special procuratorates in performing their legal supervision functions.
The head of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, also the country's chief procurator, leads the country's 246,000 prosecutors at all levels.
Each with a master's degree in law, the newly-installed chief justice and procurator-general are carrying the weight of public expectations for justice.
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