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Judicial reform scheme

Reform objectives and tasks

Judicial Informatization core task

1999.10.20

Outline of the First Five-Year Reform Plan of the People’s Court (1999-2003)

A total of 39 reform tasks in seven aspects. It mainly includes: 1) Improving the organizational system of the People’s Court; 2) Improving the well functioning trial mechanism; 3) Improving the scientific judge management system; 4) Establishing an adequate fund management system; 5) Establishing a socialistic judicial system with Chinese characteristics.

The 5 reform task in the Outline is strengthening the modernization of court office—uniformly equipping and applying computer office equipment and computer network system.

2005.10.26

Outline of the Second Five-Year Reform Plan of the People’s Court (2004-2008)

A total of 50 reform tasks in eight aspects. It mainly includes: 1) Improving the litigation procedure system; 2) Improving the implementation mechanism; 3) Improving the trial organization and judicial institution; 4) Improving judicial trial management and judicial government administration; 5) Improving the judicial personnel management system; 6) Strengthening the monitoring mechanism; 7) Establishing a modern judicial system that meets the requirements of a socialistic country under the rule of law.

The 19 reform task in the outline is establishing a national court execution information management system; the 32 reform task is judicial statistical index system; the 33 reform task is strengthening the application of information technology in court records.

2009.3.17

Outline of the Third Five-Year Reform Plan of the People’s Court (2009-2013)

A total of 30 reform tasks in five aspects. It mainly includes: 1) Optimizing the allocation of court functions and powers; 2) Implementing the criminal policy of tempering justice with mercy; 3) Strengthen team building; 4) Reforming the fund guarantee system; 5) Improving the working mechanism of judiciary for the people; 6) Building a fair, efficient and authoritative socialistic judicial system.

The 24 reform task in the outline is strengthening the informatization construction of people’s courts: promoting the application of informatization in court management; constructing trial business information network; reforming the recording mode of court trial activities; developing case management process software and judicial government affairs management software uniformly applicable to national courts; promoting collaborative work with

e-government; building a national court case information database. The 25 reform task is standardizing the live broadcasting and broadcasting of court trial; Establishing an online publication system of judgment documents; Establishing an online inquiry system for executive information; the 27 reform task is establishing a network public opinion expression and public opinion survey system; the 29 reform task is exploring and implementing measures to facilitate and benefit the people, such as remote case filing, online case filing inquiry, circuit trial, quick adjudication court, online remote trial and so on.

2015.2.4

Outline of the Forth Five-Year Reform Plan of the People’s Court (2014-2018)

A total of 65 reform tasks in seven aspects. It mainly includes: 1) Establishing the circuit court of the Supreme People’s court; Establishing intellectual property court; Exploring the administrative division court; Reforming the jurisdiction of specialized courts; 2) Strictly enforcing the exclusionary rules of illegal evidence; Reforming the court dress of criminal defendants; Promoting the rapid adjudication procedure of minor criminal cases; Improving the leniency system of pleading guilty and accepting punishment positively; 3) Reforming litigation registration system; 4) Establishing a legal system for credit supervision, deterrence and punishment of dishonest Judgment executee; 5) Establishing an evaluation system for reasoning of judgment documents; 6) Improving the system of Litigation Service Center; 7) Promoting the system of service of judicial documents; 8) Improving the diversified dispute resolution mechanism; 9) Promoting the reform of the classified management system of court personnel; Reforming the Specified Number of Personnel system of judges; Reforming judge selection system; 10) Flat management reform; 11) Establishing working mechanisms to prevent interference in judicial activities.

The 22 reform task in the Outline is establishing a national court judgment document library and a national court judicial information big data center; the 24: reform task is implementing the online judicial auction mode; the 38 reform task is the construction of national court government website, establishing a unified online litigation announcement processing platform and litigation announcement website for courts across the country, and strengthening the construction of China trial process information disclosure website; the 39 reform task is strengthening the website construction of China Referee Document Network; the 40 reform task is improving the construction of the Information Disclosure System of the Judgment executee; the 41 reform task is establishing an information network for commutation, parole and temporary execution outside prison; the 43 reform task is improving the litigation service hall, online litigation service platform and 12368 judicial service hotline. The 45 reform task is exploring the electronic service system, promoting the informatization construction of people’s courts. The 65 reform task is accelerating the construction of “balance project”, integrating existing resources and promoting various information applications to serve the work of the court and the needs of the public. Building the people’s court informatization version 3.0 with big data analysis as the core as soon as possible, and promoting the modernization of the trial system and trial capacity.

2019.2.27

Outline of the Fifth Five-Year Reform Plan of the People’s Court (2019-2023)

A total of 65 reform tasks in ten aspects. It is mainly aimed at further promoting and improving the reform experience in the early stage, especially in the third and fourth five year plans, so as to form a relatively mature, stable and overall system. The outline emphasizes “comprehensive supporting reform” and emphasizes the overall, systematic and coordinated development of the reform. It mainly includes: 1) Perfecting and adhering to the party’s leadership; 2) Improving the system of the people’s court serving and ensuring the overall situation; 3) Improving the people-centered litigation service system; 4) Improving the Sunshine

The tenth aspect of the outline systematically plans the court informatization construction. The 61 reform task is further promoting the infrastructure construction of smart courts, optimizing and integrating various office case handling platforms, and establishing a cross departmental big data case handling platform; the 62 reform task is building a national court intelligent voice cloud platform, strengthening the construction of software and infrastructure such as remote video court hearing, interrogation and digital court appearance, and strengthening the construction of intelligent auxiliary case handling system; the 63 reform task is gradually realizing three kinds of applications, online filing,

judicial system; 5) Improving the operation system of judicial power with the judicial responsibility system as the core; 6) Improving the organizational system and institutional function system of the people’s court; 7) Improving the litigation system conforming to the development of science and technology; 8) Improving the long-term system to effectively solve the difficulty of implementation; 9) Improving the people’s court personnel classification management and occupational security system; 10) Building a modern smart court application system.

online payment and electronic service, covering courts all over the country, and building a world-leading mobile litigation service system. The 64 reform task is establishing a national unified electronic archives management system; the 65 reform task is improving the judicial big data management and application mechanism.