The production received significant government funding from the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the highest agency responsible for both investigation and prosecution in China.

[4] The program's stars include Lu Yi as detective Hou Liangping, Xu Yajun as his antagonist Qi Tongwei, and Zhang Fengyi as Sha Ruijin, the provincial Party Committee Secretary.

[8] In the Name of the People chronicles the internal power struggle of the Chinese Communist Party in the fictional city of Jingzhou, Handong province.

The series depicts fictional communist party disciplinary investigators seeking to bring corrupt senior cadre to justice.

[12] The core of the series is that anti-graft efforts could only be conducted by a strong government rather than democratic elections or a free press, as The New York Times commented.