LEGISLATIVE PROGRESS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT DILEMMAS OF CRIMINAL WITNESSES TESTIFYING SYSTEM IN CHINA

To ensure that witnesses testify in court, the National People's Congress (NPC) created large-scale modifications in witnesses testifying system when amending the Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C) (1996 Revision) in 2012. Although China’s witnesses testifying system has made remarkable progress from the legal text, it will be confronted with both some technical problems and many insurmountable dilemmas. If these problems and dilemmas can’t be changed, witnesses testifying system provided by the new CPL would neither be thoroughly executed nor really solve the problem of the low rate of witness testimony in court that has plagued China’s criminal judicial practice.