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CHINA opened its fifth and sixth Circuit Court of the Supreme People’s Court yesterday in southwestern Chongqing municipality and the northwestern city of Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.
The fifth circuit court will handle cases in Chongqing, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. The sixth circuit court will cover Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The southwest and northwest China are far away from Beijing, where the SPC is headquartered.
The two circuit courts would provide convenience to local people and help to resolve lawsuits in a timely fashion, ensuring local economic and social development, said Xu Jiaxin, head of the SPC political department.
The circuit courts are permanent trial organs sent by the SPC and exercise power on behalf of the SPC. Circuit courts judgments and their decisions are equal in status to those made by the SPC. The decision to establish the circuit courts was made at a Communist Party of China meeting in October 2014, as a major step in advancing judicial reform.
The six SPC circuit courts, together with the SPC itself, cover the whole country.
In January 2015, the first two circuit courts opened in the southern economic hub of Shenzhen, and Shenyang in northeastern Liaoning Province.
The third and fourth circuit courts opened in Nanjing of eastern Jiangsu Province and Zhengzhou of central Henan Province on Wednesday.
The first two circuit courts in Shenzhen and Shenyang had 4,445 cases in place by the end of November, resolving 3,948 of them, an 89 percent settlement rate.
They had handled 72,000 complaints, resolving problems locally and had won public acclaim, Xu said.
Some people call the courts the “SPC in the doorway,” he said.
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