Thirty-five government leaders above ministry-level have been charged with corruption in the past five years, Jia Chunwang, chief prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate told China's top law makers today.

The supreme procuratorate has sued 209,487 government officials involved in 179,696 corruption cases, Jia said. Of those charged, 116,627 were convicted, Jia said in his 2003 to 2007 work report at a plenary meeting at the ongoing 11th People's Congress in Beijing.

The proportion of convicted cases against all corruption charges filed in 2007 was 29.9 percentage points higher than that in 2003, Jia said, without giving details.