The Dilemma, Challenge and Countermeasures of Felony Prosecution in China under the View of Overall National Security

Under the background of the new era, China’s felony prosecutorial work has ushered in opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, felony prosecution is an important way to safeguard our national security, especially political security. On the other hand, in the judicial practice, the procuratorial work of felony faces some difficulties, such as unclear premise of substantive law, limited scope of applicable cases, high difficulty in proving some cases and unclear operation mechanism of felony consultation. It also faces many challenges brought by the change of the background of criminal law governance in the risk society, the expansion of the object of protection in the context of criminal substantive law, the tension of value relationship in the dimension of criminal procedure law and the network of crime scenes. In order to respond to the requirements of the balance between the value of security guarantee and the value of freedom protection put forward by the overall concept of national security in the criminal field. The response ideas of felony prosecution in the new era should start from the two aspects of theoretical paradigm and practical path, and combine the guiding concept, the aspect of substantive law, the aspect of procedural law, and the four aspects of case handling mechanism. Thus can we really promote the modernization of our felony procuratorial business.