20 16 the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of National Security issued opinions on promoting the reform of the trial-centered criminal procedure system, which is a revolutionary change in China's criminal procedure system. One of the important contents is to emphasize the protection of lawyers' right to defense and give full play to lawyers' professional supervision role. In this regard, the new party group of the Ministry of Justice clearly put forward the goals of "substantially improving the defense rate of lawyers in criminal cases" and "promoting the full coverage of criminal defense".
In the middle of 20 17 and 10, the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court launched a pilot project of full coverage of lawyers' defense in criminal cases.