" BEIJING Zane Gonzalez Youth Jersey , Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Monday it has set up teams to look into the criminal cases of Gu Chujun and Zhang Wenzhong, former chairmen of an electrical appliances maker and a retailer, respectively, after the Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced a retrial last month.
Two teams of SPP prosecutors have started their work and promised to provide objective opinions based on facts, the SPP said.
The top court of China announced earlier that the retrial of Gu Howard Wilson Youth Jersey , former chairman of Guangdong Kelon Electrical Holdings, a maker of refrigerators and air conditioners, will be heard by the SPC first circuit court.
Gu was arrested in 2005. A final court ruling by Guangdong Higher People's Court in 2009 sentenced him to 10 years in prison for falsifying and withholding information and embezzlement. He was also fined 6.8 million yuan (about 1.07 million U.S. dollars).
In September 2012, after serving his term in prison, Gu filed a petition to the SPC.
The SPC sent his case to the Guangdong Higher People's Court for investigation in 2013. During the investigation Antonio Callaway Youth Jersey , Gu continued to petition the top court.
The SPC said that it reviewed Gu's case and believed he was eligible for a retrial according to China's criminal procedure law.
Gu's case was granted a retrial under article 242 of China's Criminal Procedure Law, which states that retrial may be granted if the original ruling was based on insufficient, illegal or contradictory evidence, or that the application of law was inappropriate.
The investigation into the criminal case of former retailer Zhang Wenzhong was started after the SPC announced a retrial in Zhang's case in late December last year. Zhang was former chairman of Wumei Holdings, parent of Chinese retail chain Wumart Stores.
The SPP said that the investigation would be based on the facts and stick to an objective and just stance according to law to maintain Zhang's legitimate rights and judicial fairness.
Zhang was fined and sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud Chad Thomas Youth Jersey , bribery and embezzlement in a final ruling by Hebei Higher People's Court in 2009.
Zhang first petitioned Hebei Higher People's Court but was rejected. He petitioned the SPC in 2016, which after reviewing the case decided to grant a retrial, the SPC said, adding that his case will be heard by the SPC.
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Ebola, zika Austin Corbett Youth Jersey , SARS: a century after the ""Spanish flu"" killed 50 million people, humanity now risks a new wave of deadly diseases, and in today's globalised world another such pandemic may be unavoidable, experts warned at the Davos summit this week.
""Pandemics are becoming a real threat to humanity,"" Elhadj As Sy Larry Ogunjobi Youth Jersey , secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told AFP at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort.
One Davos discussion titled ""Are We Ready For the Next Pandemic?"" was joined by experts including Sylvie Briand, a specialist in infectious diseases at the World Health Organisation (WHO).
""We know that it is coming, but we have no way of stopping it,"" she said.
This year marks the centenary of the worst epidemic in history: the so-called Spanish flu -- an outbreak that experts say was actually imported to Europe by troops from the United States coming to fight in World War One.
Across the world David Njoku Youth Jersey , the disease killed more people in two years than the four years of fighting had.
Richard Hatchett, director of the public-private Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), said India lost five percent of its population in 1918 -- the only time in the country's history that its population declined.
A century on, a new flu virus is the risk that most worries experts.
""The flu is a respiratory virus that is easily transmitted and people can be contagious even before they show symptoms, so it is not easy to control Jabrill Peppers Youth Jersey ,"" said Briand.
Its numerous forms are also able to ""marry"" one another or bond with viruses from birds or pigs in potentially deadly new combinations.
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Despite the development of anti-viral drugs, antibiotics and the first vaccines, two other flu pandemics erupted after the Spanish flu, in 1957 and 1968 -- killing millions.
More recent epidemics have reminded the world that it is still vulnerable to outbreaks.
The SARS respiratory virus killed some 770 people in 2003.
""These past three years, there has been Ebola in West Africa Myles Garrett Youth Jersey , zika in South America and more recently a plague epidemic in Madagascar"" last year, said Sy.
Ebola haemorraghic fever killed 11,000 in West Africa in 2014 and 2015. The disease also spread around the world after international travellers were infected.
""Humanity is more vulnerable in the face of epidemics because we are much more connected and we travel around much more quickly than before,"" said Briand. ""When we travel, the viruses travel with us.""
Hatchett warned that disease specialists are still dealing with the consequences of zika Nick Chubb Youth Jersey , a mosquito-borne disease which causes birth defects.
The outbreak in Latin America in 2015 took scientists by surprise.
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