Highlights of the work report of the Supreme People's Court:

- In 2021, people's courts at various levels concluded over 1.25 million criminal cases of first instance and convicted about 1.72 million criminals. The number of eight types of major criminal cases, such as homicide, rape and kidnap, has stayed at a low level.

- A total of 739 courts in China provide 24-hour litigation services.

- China will improve its adjudication rules for anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition cases in 2022.

- Chinese courts concluded 23,000 cases related to corruption, bribery and dereliction of duty in 2021, involving 27,000 people.

- China handled some 13,000 cases involving market manipulation, insider trading, illegal fund-raising and money laundering in 2021.

- Chinese livestreaming court trials have registered 45.6 billion views in 2021. A total of 130 million written judgments were made available to the public online in 2021.