BEIJING - China's judicial departments are stepping up efforts to prevent, review and correct wrongful convictions to ensure justice, the Ministry of Justice said Thursday.Xiong Xuanguo, vice minister of justice, told a press conference in Beijing that judical departments have been drawing lessons from wrongful convictions in the past and stepping up efforts to review and overturn those convictions.Xiong said that as a measure to prevent wrongful convictions, China will expand a pilot project nationwide to ensure all criminal cases have defense lawyers.The project, which started last October in eight provinces and municipalities, assigned criminal defense lawyers to represent defendants in all criminal cases to protect their human rights.With progress in the rule of law and improvement in the ability of judicial personnel, wrongful convictions will become less in China, according to Xiong. wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
LANZHOU -- Northwest China's Gansu province plans to lift 500 villages out of poverty by helping them develop rural tourism in the next three years, government sources said on Friday.The provincial government will allocate funds and offer preferential policies to villages in the underdeveloped Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture, Tianzhu Tibetan autonomous county, and another 18 counties to help them develop rural tourism.To meet the goal of lifting 20 percent of impoverished population out of poverty through rural tourism by 2020, the province will also build new roads, and construct or renovate 1,000 toilets.According to the China National Tourism Administration, the country aims to lift 12 million people out of poverty through tourism from 2016 to 2020.
