Supreme Court President Affirms Work of Juvenile Courts and Calls for Strengthening

王胜俊：少年法庭工作只能加强不能削弱

Xinhua News, 2009-05-15

Wang Shengjun, president and party secretary of the Supreme People's Court, attended a special meeting addressing China's juvenile courts and applauded the progress the courts had made while also laying out an eight character guideline for the courts' future: “persevere, perfect, reform and develop.” Wang noted that “due to increases in juvenile crime and the continuous expansion of [our] duty to protect juveniles' civil rights, in the present and future period, the work of the people's courts' juvenile courts can only be strengthened and can not be weakened.” In his remarks, Wang also affirmed the success of the juvenile courts in establishing teams of specialized judges with extensive experience adjudicating juvenile cases, as well as developing a juvenile-specific “trial system.”