A total of 29 press conferences were held by the Supreme People's Court (SPC) in 2019. They reflected the top court's commitment to impartial justice for the people by focusing on such key issues as people’s livelihood, judicial reform and the business environment.
During a SPC press conference on Dec 25, the top court demonstrated its country-wide cross-regional case filing system by live-streaming two local courts more than 5000 kilometers apart helping a litigant successfully file his lawsuit in just 15 minutes.
The system is part of the SPC’s effort to greatly simplify its judicial service procedures for the people. In fact, of the 29 press conferences, seven were focused on issues directly related to people's livelihood.
The court also introduced to the world its achievements on developing an Internet judiciary in a white paper published at a press conference last December in Wuzhen which hosts the World Internet Conference every year.
At a press conferences held last year the court addressed such significant issues as the Belt and Road Initiative, the business environment, intellectual property rights protection and environmental and natural resources disputes, which are of interest around the world.
For example, using several press conferences, the court released a series of judicial interpretations on corporate bankruptcy, time limits on trials of civil and commercial cases and foreign investment and judicial support for the building of the Belt and Road, all of which were aimed at building a law-based business environment for both Chinese and foreign enterprises.
The court also held a press conference to report on progress in environmental and natural resource trials, and to publish a set of typical cases in an effort to set up unified trial standards for courts across the country.
To display its determination to protect intellectual property rights in China, the court held a press conference during last year’s intellectual property publicity week at which it released a white paper along with ten major IP-related cases and 50 typical cases.
Source: english.court.gov.cn
