A judicial reform plan to strip China's procuratorates of their right to appoint "people's supervisors" to monitor the procuratorates' work has been released to ensure judicial credibility and transparency, the country's top procutatorate said on Wednesday.

The people's supervisors, who are responsible for overseeing any prosecutorial wrongdoings when handling cases, will be selected by judicial authorities, according to the plan, which was jointly released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) and the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday.

The supervisors will oversee prosecutors if they drop cases which should be filed, obstruct lawyers and other litigation, extort confessions by torture, accept bribes or are involved in other wrongdoings, the plan noted.

The supervision is now focused on criminal cases involving government officials.

The SPP launched a pilot program to establish the system of people's supervisors in 2003 and eventually applied it nationwide in 2010.

Supervisors discuss and overview any alleged wrongdoings and then submit a report to a procuratorial committee. The procuratorial committee will decide whether there are violations based on the supervisor's report.

The plan noted that members selected from government organs or State-owned enterprises should account for no more than 50 percent of all appointed supervisors.

Tong Yongqiang, a lawyer based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, told the Global Times that he participated in less than 10 cases in the past five years as a people's supervisor appointed by the local procuratorate.

"The reform would help us avoid interference from procurators and do my duty more independently," Tong said.

The plan noted that justice authorities are required to set up a database for people's supervisors, according to the statement.

The supervisors will be chosen within the database at random while previously, they were chosen by procurators, said He Wenkai, a deputy procurator-general of the Fangchenggang People's Procuratorate in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is one of 10 provincial regions chosen for the pilot scheme.

"The plan is expected to strengthen supervisors' power and help us to maintain public trust as it could prevent errors and power-based cases," He said.