SPC holds seminar on intl commercial disputes resolution

China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) held the Fourth Seminar of its International Commercial Expert Committee on Sept 25, bringing together experts and guests from more than 20 countries for discussions on the theme of “cooperation, dialogue, greater integration and peaceful development”.

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in litigants actively choosing Chinese courts to adjudicate their cases of cross-border commercial disputes. From 2013 to the first half of this year, Chinese courts concluded nearly 500,000 first-instance civil and commercial cases related to foreign litigants or those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, spanning more than 100 countries and regions.

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