Uzbek Prosecutors’ Training Program concludes in Xinjiang　

The Uzbek Prosecutors' Training Program, hosted by China's Ministry of Commerce and organized by the National Prosecutors College, recently held its closing ceremony at the Judicial Cooperation and Exchange Base for Central Asian Countries, which is located at the Xinjiang Branch of the National Prosecutors College.

Zhu Quanjing, Vice President of the National Prosecutor's College, and Wang Bin, Head of the Political Department of the People's Procuratorate of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, attended and addressed the ceremony.

The program involved 15 prosecutors from the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan, the Tashkent prosecutor's office, and the Namangan region prosecutor's office, who participated in sessions in Beijing and Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, before coming to Urumqi in Xinjiang for the closing session.

The program was launched as an important measure to implement the China-Uzbekistan joint statement, which emphasizes deepening judicial cooperation, strengthening exchanges and visits between prosecutorial personnel, and enhancing collaboration in training. It is also a concrete step to deepen judicial cooperation, promote mutual learning, and seek common development between the two countries.

Following the closing ceremony, Gao Jiming, Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, met with the participants, congratulating them on the program's success.

Gao briefly shared his views from his visit to Uzbek prosecutorial organs earlier this year and updated the progress of the cooperation agreement between the two sides. He also introduced the background of establishing the Judicial Cooperation and Exchange Base for Central Asian Countries at the Xinjiang Branch of the National Prosecutors College by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Gao expressed the hope that they would use what they have learned in China to advance China-Uzbekistan prosecutorial cooperation, collaborate closely in combating transnational crimes, and promote practical law-based cooperation between prosecutorial organs of the two countries. He also called on the participants to become envoys of the traditional friendship between prosecutorial organs of China and Uzbekistan, sharing their experiences in Xinjiang to help more international friends understand China and Xinjiang.

During the session in Xinjiang, Liu Gang, Deputy Secretary of Party Leadership Group and First Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, gave a presentation on several topics, including the achievements in Xinjiang's rule of law development, and the procuratorial organs' efforts in exploring and developing pathways with local characteristics that are conducive to coordinated performance of four procuratorial functions.

The participants visited the People's Procuratorate of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the international land port area, the Procuratorial Center of the Silk Road Economic Belt Legal Services District, as well as the Xinjiang Software Park and the Dabancheng Wind Power Plant. These activities vividly showcased Xinjiang's remarkable development and vitality in recent years, allowing the participants to gain a deeper, firsthand understanding of the achievements made by China, particularly by Xinjiang, in the development of the rule of law, economic and social development, and procuratorial work.

This training program has injected new vitality into deepening China-Uzbekistan prosecutorial cooperation, and built a bridge of friendship through mutual cultural recognition. Participants of the program described the Xinjiang session as substantial and practical, saying that the exchanges with their counterparts in Xinjiang broadened their horizons and enhanced their knowledge. It allowed them to gain valuable experience from Chinese procuratorial organs in various aspects of work, which will undoubtedly have a positive impact on their future endeavors, they said.

In recent years, the development of Xinjiang's rule of law has achieved remarkable success in supporting the high-quality economic and social development, with rapid progress in building the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the pilot free trade zone. The Xinjiang session of the program was not only an opportunity for mutual learning and exchange, but also a continuation of friendly relations between China and Uzbekistan, marking the beginning of future engagement between prosecutorial organs of both sides.

Looking ahead, the Xinjiang Branch of the National Prosecutors College will leverage the Judicial Cooperation and Exchange Base for Central Asian Countries to deepen judicial cooperation, exchange and training programs, and research on prosecutorial theory and practice with Central Asian countries, aiming to write a new chapter in judicial cooperation and exchanges between China and Central Asia through Xinjiang's procuratorial practice.