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The rate of reoffending among criminals who were subjected to community correction in Shanghai last year was 0.09 percent, much lower than the national average of 0.2 percent, Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice announced on Wednesday. 

According to China's Community Correction Law, enacted on July 1, 2020, criminals sentenced to public surveillance, probation, released on parole or a temporary sentence outside prison shall be subjected to community correction in accordance with the law. 

Shanghai has accepted and released over 130,000 people in total since the city piloted community correction in August 2002. In recent years, the city has accepted over 14,000 people for community correction on average every year with these people's rate of reoffending controlled below 0.2 percent. 

Particularly, the citywide rate of reoffending of people under community correction dropped to 0.09 percent last year, much lower than the national average of 0.2 percent. 

The nation's first provincial-level implementation rules about community correction enacted in Shanghai on August 20, 2020, provides institutional guarantee for the effective implementation of the law. 

Shanghai has also strengthened its management over a series of work related to people of community correction, such as centralized education, individual education, psychological correction, public welfare activities, adaptation assistance, and education assistance for minors. 

Global Times