BEIJING, Jan. 13 -- China's chief justice Zhou Qiang urged efforts to deepen judicial reform and promote transparency in a bid to safeguard equity and justice.

Zhou said that courts at all levels should uphold the idea of justice and stick to judicial justice, according to a statement released Monday after an annual conference on China's judicial work for 2013.

"Judges across the country should be firm in promoting judicial reform to speed up the building of a fair, efficient and authoritative socialist judicial system," Zhou said at the conference.