On March 9, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress held a plenary meeting Friday to hear work reports from the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Chief Justice Zhou Qiang and Procurator-General Cao Jianming delivered the reports at the meeting.

In the work report of the Supreme People’s Court, Chief Justice Zhou Qiang summarized the work carried out by people’s courts at various levels during the period of 2013-2017 and laid out plan for the work of the courts in the year 2018. He especially pointed out that Chinese courts will improve judicial work toward the goal that "property will be safer and rights better protected"; that the courts should refrain from handling business disputes as criminal offenses; that efforts should be made to allow entrepreneurs to "stay focused on doing business and feel secure to invest and operate their businesses”; and that the SPC plans to set up a special court on international commercial affairs, so as to better resolve international business disputes arising from the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.

In the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Procurator-General Cao Jianming summarized the work carried out by people’s procuratorates at various levels during the period of 2013-2017 and laid out the plan of the procuratorial work in China for the year 2018. He pointed out that in the next year, China will: deepen study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; safeguard national political security and social stability; ensure legal guarantee for sustainable and healthy economic and social development in the new era; intensify efforts on legal supervision and uphold the unity, sanctity and authority of China's legal system; firm up political orientation in deepening reform; and strengthen team building for the new era and exercise strict governance on procurators.

The reports have been approved and highly praised by deputies to the National People’s Congress. Professor Sun Xianzhong, a research fellow at the CASS Institute of Law who attended the meeting as a deputy to the National People’s Congress, said in an interview by Xinhua News Agency that: “This year’s work reports of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate have left me with a deep impression, that is: in recent years, judicial organs in China have risen to the challenges in their work, tackled the difficulties head on, and promoted judicial fairness through down-to-earth reforms.