Legal analysis: general criminal cases should be transferred to the court by the procuratorate, and the procuratorate should transfer them within one month. Major and complicated cases can be extended for half a month. The court session usually lasts for two months, not more than three months at the latest. When trying a case of public prosecution, the people's court shall pronounce a judgment within two months after accepting it, and no later than three months. For a case that may be sentenced to death or an incidental civil lawsuit, if one of the circumstances stipulated in Article 156 of this Law occurs, it may be extended for three months with the approval of the people's court at the next higher level; Due to special circumstances need to be extended, it shall be submitted to the Supreme People's Court for approval.
Legal basis: decision of NPC Standing Committee on amending the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). Article 169 is renumbered as Article 172, and the first paragraph is amended as: "The people's procuratorate shall make a decision on the case transferred by the supervisory organ or the public security organ within one month, and the major and complicated case may be extended for fifteen days; If the criminal suspect pleads guilty and meets the applicable conditions of summary procedure, he shall make a decision within ten days, and may be sentenced to more than one year in prison, which may be extended to fifteen days. "