Chinese President Jiang Zemin and other state leaders met with China's first grand justices and grand procurators Thursday at the Great Hall of the People.
Speaking to the 84 newly appointed grand justices and grand procurators, Jiang said that a new situation and new tasks called for further strengthening judicial work and will greatly increasing the standard of judges and procurators.
He asked China's judges and procurators to maintain high ideological and political standards and to be of a high professional caliber.
"Backed with such high-quality judges and procurators, the standard of China's judiciary and its work will keep growing," said Jiang.
Members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing also took part in the meeting.
The grand justices, appointed by China's Supreme People's Court and grand procurators, appointed by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, are the first group of judges and procurators to receive the "grand" titles in China and were appointed on Thursday.
( March 22, 2002)
