国内英语新闻:China to boost quality of procuratorial staff

BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a training project for all procuratorial personnel in the country to promote their work, according to an official of the Supreme People' s Procuratorate (SPP).

Procuratorial agencies should have more staff with master' s or doctor' s degrees, and by 2020, procuratorial staff with bachelor' s degrees should make up at least 80 percent of the total members in the country' s less-developed west regions, Hu Zejun, executive deputy procurator-general of the SPP, said at a national conference on procuratorial personnel in Beijing on Monday.

Further, there should be at least half of the staff in all grassroots-level procuratorates who are college graduates by 2020, Hu said.

As of 2009, over 75 percent of the procuratorial staff in China had received bachelor' s degrees or above, an increase from some 53 percent in 2004, according to a statement released at the conference.

Hu also called for more efforts to attract high-quality procuratorial personnel, promote the ability of the staff in grassroots procuratorial organs and provide more training for young procurators.