The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently convened a mobilization meeting in Beijing to launch an intensified campaign against organized crime across courts nationwide. Zhang Jun, president of the SPC, attended and addressed the meeting.

Organized crime poses a serious threat to national security and social stability and is strongly condemned by the public. 

Following the major decision made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council to target organized crime, the SPC meeting focused on how courts can fulfill their primary responsibilities for adjudication and enforcement and achieve substantive results through the campaign.

“This year marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), making the CPC Central Committee’s decision to intensify the campaign highly significant,” the meeting noted.

The campaign is a strategic measure to create a secure and stable environment for advancing Chinese modernization, contribute to the building of a safer China and law-based governance, foster a clean political environment, and enhance the people’s sense of fulfillment, happiness and security. It is also a timely response to emerging trends in organized crime.

Courts at all levels should fully recognize the higher standards and stricter requirements of the intensified campaign, faithfully implement the decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee, and give full play to their adjudicative functions to advance the campaign with firm and effective measures in accordance with the law, according to the meeting.

The meeting stressed the need to respond effectively to new manifestations, characteristics, trends and patterns of organized crime by integrating targeted campaigns with systematic, comprehensive, law-based and source-oriented governance.

Efforts to combat organized crime should be integrated with the fight against corruption, including the crackdown on misconduct by grassroots officials. Courts should pursue a long-term approach featuring law-based punishment, measures addressing both symptoms and root causes, and targeted supervision, with a view to advancing the campaign in a more law-based, standardized and professional manner.

The meeting called on courts to faithfully perform their duties in accordance with law and properly balance their primary responsibilities for adjudication and enforcement and targeted efforts in the campaign, so as to ensure that no organized crime escapes punishment and no case is wrongfully handled as organized crime, the meeting stressed.

The meeting also called for stronger organizational leadership. Courts should treat the campaign as a major political task, an important initiative concerning the people’s well-being and a priority task for their leadership. 

Implementation measures should be refined and carried out in an orderly manner to ensure concrete results and create a safer and more stable social environment for high-quality economic and social development, it was noted at the meeting.

Deng Xiuming, executive vice-president of the SPC, presided over the meeting.

Senior officials of the SPC in Beijing and heads of SPC departments attended, together with members of the leadership teams and heads of departments of local courts.