The Supreme People's Procuratorate is the highest procuratorial organ in China and the legal supervisory organ of the State. According to the Constitution and other laws, the term of office of the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate is the same as that of the NPC; the Procurator-General shall serve no more than two consecutive terms.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate is responsible to the NPC and its Standing Committee, and reports its work to and accepts supervision from the NPC and its Standing Committee. People's procuratorates at various local levels are responsible to the organs of state power which created them and to the people's procuratorates at higher levels.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate directs the work of the people's procuratorates at various local levels and of the special people's procuratorates at various local levels. People's procuratorates at higher levels direct the work of those at lower levels.

The Procurator-General of the Supreme People Procuratorate is Jia Chunwang.

People's procuratorates

The people's procuratorates in China are state organs for legal supervision. The people's procuratorates accomplish their task by exercising procuratorial power independently. The people's procuratorates have the procuratorial power. They exercise the procuratorial power over cases seriously endangering state and public security, and infringing upon citizens' personal and democratic rights, and other important criminal cases; examine the cases scheduled for investigation by public security organs, and decide on whether a suspect should be arrested or not, and whether a case should be prosecuted or exempt from prosecution; institute and support public prosecution in criminal cases; and oversee activities in public security organs, people's courts, prisons, lockups and reform-through-labor institutions.

The people's procuratorates, as well as the people's courts, exercise their powers, independent of interference by any administrative organ, social organization or individual person. All citizens are equal regarding application of the law.

The people's procuratorates shall, through exercising their　procuratorial　power, suppress all treasonous activities, all activities to dismember the state　and　other counterrevolutionary activities, and strike at counterrevolutionaries and other criminals, so as to safeguard　the　unification of the country, the system of　proletarian dictatorship and the socialist　legal　system; to maintain public order and order in production,　education, scientific research and other work, and in the life of the people; to protect the socialist property owned by the whole people and by the collectives of the working masses, and the private property lawfully owned by citizens; to protect the citizens' rights of the person and their democratic and other rights; and to ensure the smooth progress of the socialist modernization.

According to the Constitution and other laws, the people's procuratorates exercise the following functions and duties:

Directly accepting and handling according to law the criminal cases involving corruption, bribery, tort to citizens' democratic rights and misconduct in office, placing them on file for investigation, and deciding whether to initiate prosecution or not;

Performing legal supervision over the judicial proceedings of courts and investigations of criminal cases;

Deciding on arrests and prosecution of criminal cases according to law and performing legal supervision over the judicial activities in criminal cases;

Performing legal supervision over the judicial proceedings of courts and investigations of the civil cases;

Performing legal supervision over administrative lawsuit.