China's judiciary has taken a zero-tolerance approach to crimes against minors, said work reports of both the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate submitted to the country's top legislature on Monday.
A total of 40,000 cases for crimes against minors were concluded in 2025, down 1.8 percent year on year, convicting 44,000 individuals, according to the Supreme People's Court report submitted to the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation.
The top court also highlighted strengthened efforts in the prevention of juvenile delinquency, as well as the formation of a joint force to protect minors.
According to the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the number of people prosecuted for crimes against minors and the number of juvenile offenders decreased in 2025.
"We strengthened the protection of minors' rights and interests and the prevention of crimes, and took a zero-tolerance approach to crimes against minors, prosecuting 73,000 individuals. Juvenile offenders were punished, educated for reform, saved from crimes according to law, with 56,000 of them prosecuted, and 16,000 conditionally exempted from prosecution. The Supreme People's Procuratorate approved the prosecution of 24 minors for violent crimes, ensuring that heinous crimes must be punished. The number of people prosecuted for crimes against minors and the number of juvenile offenders prosecuted decreased by 2.2 percent and 9.8 percent year on year, respectively, marking the first 'double decline' in the past five years," Ying Yong, prosecutor-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said while delivering the report at the second plenary meeting of the fourth session of the 14th NPC.
The 14th NPC is holding its annual session from March 5 through March 12.
China maintains zero tolerance to crimes against minors
