The Chief Justice of China's Supreme Court Zhou Qiang, presenting the latest work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate revealed the following statistics: 300,000 civil cases of migrant worker wage arrears (and other cases involving the interests of rural residents) and that criminal cases involving refusal to pay wages were up 58%. Last year’s report revealed that 753 persons were convicted in 2014, which means that 2015 convictions were close to 1200.