Chinese judicial bodies should respect and enforce the Constitution and improve their credibility by exercising legal power independently, the top legislative body said on Friday.

Justice, as a lifeline for the rule of law, must be upheld and highlighted in practice, Qiao Xiaoyang, chairman of the Law Committee of the National People's Congress, said on the nation's second Constitution Day.

"Upholding justice and making judgments independently are the best ways for judicial bodies to abide by the Constitution," Qiao said.

To maintain justice, 3,145 Chinese courts published 11.6 million verdicts on the Internet from Jan 1 last year to Nov 1, aiming to make their work transparent.

Courts have also exposed people who refuse to follow verdicts, such as debtors, by releasing their information online or barring them from going abroad.

Since November 2013, when the top court established a website to disclose those who do not implement judgments, 2.45 million people have been exposed online, of whom 34 percent have enforced verdicts under the pressure for credibility.

To protect the rights of litigants, the Supreme People's Court in April issued a guideline to accept cases as they are registered, rather than after a preliminary review of their merits.

Thanks to the reform, Chinese courts registered more than 6.2 million cases from May 1 to Sept 30, up 31.9 percent year-on-year, the top court said.

Sun Jungong, spokesman for the top court, said on Friday that courts at all levels held 5,268 news conferences from Jan 1 to Nov 30, including 25 by the top court and 337 in provincial high people's courts.

In addition, more than 2 million lectures and seminars on the Constitution have been held over the past year, while the number of brochures explaining fundamental law has reached 3.5 million, according to the China Legal Information Center.

Qiao said that some officials still have little knowledge about the fundamental law, calling on them to learn and apply it in practice.

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