Chinese prosecutors have focused the investigation of job-related crimes on high-level officials, "profitable" government sections, monopoly industries and state-owned companies in an effort to weed out corruption, top prosecutor Jia Chunwang said in Beijing Saturday.

A total of 41,449 government employees were probed by prosecutors in 2005 for corruption and dereliction of duty, of which 30,205 were brought to court, said Jia, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), in his annual work report to the parliament.

"Job-related crimes have been rampant in some industries and government sections over the past years, but the latest trend has come into being that more money is involved, crimes are committed more secretively and more are absconding with large sums of public money," the top prosecutor said.

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.

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.

Facts and figures: China's procuratorial work in 2005

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 (SPP) 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;

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China makes public "blacklist" of bribers

Most Chinese procuratorial organs at provincial level have put on-line a list of convicted bribers, making such information available for public inquiry, top prosecutor Jia Chunwang said in Beijing Saturday.

Listed are individuals or organizations that have been convicted of bribery or bribery-related crimes since 1997 in the sectors of construction, finance, education, health and government procurement, said Jia, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, in his work report to the annual session of the parliament.

Procuratorates to audiotape, videotape interrogation process

China's procuratorates will phase in the practice of audiotape and videotape interrogation of suspects in job-related crimes, China's Procurator-General Jia Chunwang said in Beijing Saturday in his report to the ongoing annual parliament session.

"It shows China has begun to use high technology to collect criminal evidences," said Fan Chongyi, director of the center on the research of procedural law with the China University of Political Science and Law.

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Complaints against judiciary decrease despite exposures of unjust trials

Despite that there were frequent exposures of wronged court judgments in the past years, the number of public complaints against China's judicial system actually took a down turn in 2005, said China's top judge Xiao Yang in his work report delivered Saturday.

Local courts across the country received 3,995,244 letters, visits and calls of complaints in 2005, down 5.33 percent year-on-year. And 435,547 of them were against the misconduct of judges, Xiao said in his work report of the People's Supreme Court to the ongoing session of the Tenth National People's Congress.

Chinese judiciaries take steps to ensure innocent free from being wronged

Chinese courts and prosecuting organs at various levels have taken a series of measures to ensure that the innocent be free from wronged punishment, according to work reports of top judge Xiao Yang and top procurator Jia Chunwang on Saturday to the Parliament.

"Chinese courts at various levels strictly followed the principle of meting out penalty to the guilty in accordance with the law, and setting the innocent free in time, and pronounced 2,162 criminal defendants innocent in year 2005," Xiao, Chief Justice and the President of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), told the ongoing session of the Tenth National People's Congress.