BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Sunday reported a sharp rise in the number of cases it concluded in 2016, while promising to play a bigger role this year in helping maintain stability and promote growth.
The SPC handled and concluded 22,742 and 20,151 cases respectively last year, up 42.3 percent and 42.6 percent from 2015, the court said in a work report to be delivered by Chief Justice Zhou Qiang at a plenary meeting of the annual session of the country's top legislature.
Its lower courts at different levels, meanwhile, handled and concluded 23.03 million and 19.77 million cases in 2016, also up 18 percent and 18.3 percent respectively, it said.
