- Thoroughly applies “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” and implements the CPC’s guidelines and policies
- Unifies prosecutorial procedures and preserve the Party’s absolute leadership over prosecutorial work. Firmly uphold the central role of Xi Jinping in the central government and within the Party
- Firmly upholds the authority and the centralized leadership of the CPC Central Committee
- Makes proposals to the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee
- Requests legal interpretations from the Standing Committee, as well as request constitutional review of administrative regulations, local ordinances, autonomy statues and specific regulations
- Leads the work of local people’s procuratorates at various levels and the special people’s procuratorates
- Studies and formulates working policy and high-level planning for the prosecutorial work
- Exercises the right of surveillance to investigate criminal cases as prescribed for law
- Guides criminal detective work for local people’s procuratorates at various levels and the special people’s procuratorates
- Reviews by law approvals or decisions on the arrest and prosecution of national significant criminal cases
- Guides local people’s procuratorates at various levels and the special people’s procuratorates’ work of approving or deciding on the arrest and initiating public prosecution of criminal cases
- Leads criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings within the duty of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and supervise execution of valid legal documents
- Leads commonwealth litigation within the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, local people’s procuratorates at various levels and the special people’s procuratorates
- Supervises the Supreme People’s Court in the review of death penalty
- Reviews and decides upon applications for prosecution from provincial people’s procuratorate
- Be responsible for the legal supervision of law enforcement at prisons and detention centers at all procuratorial levels
- Addresses complaints proposed to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate at all levels of authority
- Reviews the decisions made by local people’s procuratorates at various levels and the special people’s procuratorates when executing procuratorial authority, and correct miscarriage of justice
- Interprets issues concerning the specific application of laws in procuratorial work and issue guiding cases
- Guides theoretical research work of procuratorial organs throughout the country
- Manages organizational issues for procuratorial organs and their ideological and political work. Lead the people’s procuratorates at all levels and the special people’s procuratorates to administer by law the work of public procurators and other procuration staff
- Coordinates with the central ministries to administrate the department establishments and staffing of peoples’ procuratorates
- Proposes administrative procedures, organizes and guides the education and training work of procuratorial organs
- Coordinates with relevant central government departments and provincial party committees to appoint and review the chief procurators of the people’s procuratorates and the special people’s procuratorates of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Conducts inspections of employees.
- Plans and guides budgetary work and management of procuratorial technical information at procuratorial organs nationwide
- Organizes foreign exchanges and cooperation with procuratorial organs and carries out relevant international judicial assistance.
- Be responsible for other tasks that should be undertaken by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate