Xiao Yang

Biography

Of nationality Han, Xiao Yang adhered to the Chinese Communist party (PCC) at the time of the Cultural revolution, in May 1966. It is graduate Department of the legal sciences of the Université of the people of China ( Renmin University off Clouded ) (中国人民大学) with Beijing.

He successively took up the duties of assistant public prosecutor of the provincial popular Parquet floor of Guangdong and of assistant secretary of his leading group of the PCC of 1983 with 1986, then of public prosecutor and directing secretary of the group of the PCC of this same parquet floor between 1986 and 1990.

Public prosecutor assistant of the supreme popular Parquet floor of China and member of its leading group of the PCC of 1990 with 1992 and assistant public prosecutor and assistant secretary of the group directing of the PCC of the supreme popular Parquet floor of China of 1992 with 1993, Mr. Xiao took up the duties of Chinese Minister for Justice and of directing secretary of the group of the PCC of this ministry between 1993 and 1998, when he was elected, in March 1998, by the National People's Assembly (APN, Chinese Parliament) president of the supreme popular Cour of China, and selected as secretary of his leading group of the PCC and Member of the Commission of Justice.

He is member of 15th and 16th Central committees of the PCC.

The March 16th 2003, Xiao Yang was re-elected president of the supreme popular Court of China, at the time of the 6th plenary session of the first session of the 10th National People's Assembly.

In the report/ratio on the activity of the supreme popular Court, that it presented in March 2004 at the time of the 2nd session of the 10th National People's Assembly, Xiao Yang particularly insisted on the repression of the economic Criminalité: “The popular courses must give a severe punishment to the actions which violate the legitimate interests of the investors, of the consumers and the legitimate rights of those which have the Intellectual property”. It also put forward concerns of an environmental nature, estimating that the courts were “to ensure, according to the laws, the exploitation and the use reasonable of the natural resources of the grounds, the mines and the forests”.

In 2006, it returned, in his annual report presented in front of the deputies of the APN, on the questions of protection of the intellectual property, which seem to worry at the most point the Chinese leaders: “We reinforced our efforts for the protection of the intellectual property, by supporting the capacity of innovation and the establishment of an innovating system for the country”.

In a interwiew granted to the Xinhua news agency the March 12th 2006, the president of the supreme popular Court indicated, in addition, that China was not laid out to abolish the Capital punishment for the moment, even if it considers that it “must be applied with prudence”.

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