From Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online:
China has 121,889 lawyers, 31,957 legal assistants and 12,428 law offices, but parts of the country still have no legal services, says an official with the All-China Lawyers Association.
Yu Ning, director of the All China Lawyers Association, told a forum marking the association’s 20th anniversary, that since the reform of legal services was launched in the early 1980s, the number of lawyers had risen along with professional standards. [Full Text]