BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese courts have imposed severe punishment on convicts in drug-related cases in a bid to facilitate narcotics control, said Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC).
Courts nationwide concluded 613,000 drug cases in their first trials from the beginning of 2014 to June 2019, convicting a total of 619,000 people, said Zhou while giving a report on strengthening criminal trials at the ongoing bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee Wednesday.
About 22.2 percent of the total convicts in the drug-related cases received serious sentences ranging from five years in jail to the death penalty, 11.6 percentage points higher than the average ratio of serious sentences in all criminal cases during the same period, according to the report.
Moreover, the SPC has also unveiled a variety of typical drug cases to raise public awareness of the dangers of drug abuse in the past few years.
