China court pursues its modernization path by rule of law

Chinese courts have improved the ability of handling cases involving overseas foreign affairs and maritime disputes, aiming to help the country serve high-level opening-up and pursue its modernization path by rule of law.

Upholding the principle of equal protection to every market entity for the world, courts at all levels concluded more than 492,000 disputes regarding overseas foreign litigants, along with over 170,000 maritime lawsuits, from the beginning of 2013 to the end of June this year.

“The huge numbers show that our country’s door is opening wider and the judicial demand is becoming bigger, also meaning that the principle of equal protection in the case handling has been widely recognized by domestic and foreign litigants,” quota from the Supreme People’s Court (SPC).

New from: Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China.