Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Notary Personnel refers to people working for notary offices including: directors, deputy directors, notaries, assistant notaries and other people providing assistance.

Notary Documents refer to the judicial notary documents drawn up at the request of the interested party and are in accordance with facts and the law and following certain legal proceedings.

Extraordinarily Serious Fire Case refers to a case which has caused over 30 deaths; or over 100 serious injuries; or a direct property loss over 100 million yuan.

Serious Fire Case refers to a case which has caused over 10 to 30 deaths; or over 50 to 100 serious injuries; or a direct property loss over 50 million to 100 million yuan.

Comparatively Serious Fire Case refers to a case which has caused over three to ten deaths; or over 10 to 50 serious injuries; or a direct property loss over 10 million to 50 million yuan.

Ordinary Fire Case refers to a case which has caused less than three deaths; or less than 10 serious injuries; or a direct property loss less than 10 million yuan.

Cases Registered and Handled Directly by People’s Procuratorate Offices refer to those serious criminal cases that, according to the functional jurisdiction, are registered and handled by the People’s Procuratorate Offices, including the ones on bribery and corruption, the ones on abuse and dereliction of duty, offences against citizens’ personal and democratic rights by government officials abusing their powers; and that are registered and handled by the provincial Procuratorate offices in relation to other major crimes committed by government officials by abusing their powers.

Key Cases refer to crimes committed by county and director-level officials. This indicator reflects the situation of those county and director-level officials involved in criminal cases registered and handled by People’s Procuratorate offices.

Approval for Arrest refers to the decision made by people’s procuratorate office, in accordance with the law and relevant facts, to approve the arrest of the suspect(s) as proposed by the public security departments, state security departments or prisons authority. This indicator reflects approved arrests made by people’s procuratorate offices that are proposed by related departments.

Decision on Arrest refers to decision made by the people’s procuratorate office, in accordance with laws, to arrest the suspect(s) in the cases that are accepted and to be investigated by procurators office. This indicator mainly reflects the implementation of the decision on arrest by people’s procuratorate office.

Cases by Public Prosecution refer to those ones that are instituted by People’s Procuratorate offices after their examination of such cases transferred by public security organs, national security organs, jail management organs and prosecutorial organs on the bases of the facts found. This indicator reflects the situation of public prosecutions instituted to the people’s courts by People’s Procuratorate Offices.

Summary Procedure refers to those cases of public prosecution where the suspects might be, according to law, sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or punishment with fines exclusively, where the facts are clear and the evidence is sufficient, and for which the People's Procuratorate suggests or agrees to the application of summary procedure; those cases to be handled only upon complaints; and those minor criminal cases prosecuted by the victims with evidence.

Protests Presented refers to those protests presented by local People's Procuratorate at any level who considers that there exists some definite error in a judgment or order of first instance made by a People's Court at the same level to the People's Court at the next higher level, including the protests raised in accordance with the second instance and protests raised in accordance with procedure for trial supervision.

Withdrawal of Protests refers to the actions made by the People's Procuratorate at the next higher level when it considers the protests inappropriate by withdrawing the protests from the People's Court at the same level and notifying the People's Procuratorate at the next lower level.

Case Registration Supervision refers to the actions made by the People's Procuratorate to supervise the registration of criminal cases initiated by investigative authorities, including supervision of the cases which have wrongly not been registered and have wrongly been registered.

Supervision of Case Registration includes both the supervision of those registrations initiated by investigatory authorities and the supervision of those registrations according to notifications after hearing declined reasons for registration.

Supervisory Activities refers to the supervision of the People’s Procuratorate over the management of prisons as well as other places of criminal reformation under supervision.

Juvenile Criminals refers to the offenders within the age range of 14 to 25 convicted guilty by the court during the reporting period while those between 14 and 18 are defined as minor offenders.

Administrative Cases refers to the cases filed by citizens, corporations and other organizations against the specific administrative conducts of administrative authorities and handled by the court.

Separate Compensation refers to cases that are separately filed for administrative compensation by the party who has no dispute on the legality of administrative conducts but brings proceedings separately to claim for damages caused by administrative tort.

Supervision Rate refers to the percentage of patients among the total number of registered mental disease patients, who participate in social integrated and open treatment and rehabilitation programmes through various forms such as supervision groups, family treatment, employment or guidance from psychiatric institutions. This indicator reflects the implementation of various measures aimed at rehabilitating those mental patients.

Social Participation Rate refers to proportion of mental disease patients who are able to manage their daily life and participate in economic activities to the total number of mental disease patients under supervision. This indicator reflects the condition of recovery of those mental patients and their participation in social activities.

Violent Events Rate refers to the number of the patients with mental diseases who have violated the Public Security Regulations as a percentage of the total registered patients with mental diseases within the year.

Handicapped School-age Children without School Attendance refers to the number of handicapped children of the school age as prescribed by the provincial government in accordance with the Law on Compulsory Education who fail to attend any schools for various reasons as of December 31 of the current year.

Centralized Employment refers to the number of the urban handicapped residents employed, in a centralized manner, by welfare enterprises, work and treatment agencies, blind massagists’ centers and other organizations as of December 31of the current year.

Proportionate Employment refers to the number of the urban handicapped residents employed by governmental bodies, organizations, corporate and public institutions, and various economic organizations in a decentralized manner as of December 31 of the current year.

Number of Labour Disputes Cases Accepted refers to the number of cases of labour disputes submitted that, after being reviewed by the labour dispute arbitration committees in line with the relevant national regulations, are accepted and registered for treatment.