Following are the main facts and figures about China's procuratorial work in 2005 revealed in the work report delivered by Jia Chunwang, procurator-general of China 's Supreme People's Procuratorate (CSPP) to the 4th annual session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature:

-- A total of 41,447 government employees were probed by prosecutors in 2005 for corruption and dereliction of duty, of which 30,205 were brought to court;

-- Chinese prosecutors investigated 2,799 government officials above the county level, including 196 at prefecture level and eight at provincial and ministerial level. In addition, 9,117 executives of state-owned companies were probed for misappropriating or embezzling company assets;

-- China arrested 860,372 people last year for a variety of crimes and prosecuted 950,804 people, up 6.1 percent and 9.6 percent respective over the previous year;

-- In 2005, 703 government officials at large suspected of job- related crimes were seized, 14.5 percent more than the previous year, with 7.4 billion yuan of illicit money confiscated, 62.9 percent more than 2004.

-- A total of 599 cases involving illegal detention, abusing criminal suspects and obstructing people's electoral right were investigated by prosecutors during the year 2005;

-- The prosecuting organs intensified supervision in the aspect by redressing 598 cases involving extracting confession through torture or obtaining evidence through illegal means, and investigated in 110 cases concerning forced confession;

-- Thanks to the joint efforts made by the prosecuting organs and other judicial organs, the number of unlawfully extended custody cases had dropped to 271 in 2005 from 4,947 in 2004.

Source: Xinhua