Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), called for an overall improvement of China’s smart court system and acceleration of the modernization of the country's adjudicatory system and capability at a meeting on April 2.

The meeting was the first plenary meeting of the SPC's leading group on cybersecurity and information technology this year.

Zhou pointed out that since 2019 the building of the smart court platform has achieved new and remarkable results.

The online mobile court system has been established in 31 provincial-level regions as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, with cross-regional case filing services fully implemented in courts at all levels across the country. The building of a one-stop litigation service system, a unified judicial blockchain platform, judicial big data, and a smart court laboratory has also achieved substantial progress.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, under the guidance of the SPC courts at all levels have drawn on the smart court system to move their litigation services from offline to online to deal with cases in large numbers both efficiently and effectively.

Chinese courts’ achievement in pursuing mobile and digitalized litigation services have drawn widespread attention and praise from the international community and provided powerful legal services and support for winning the total battle against the epidemic and realizing economic and social development goals this year.

Zhou also stressed that cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence and 5G must be better utilized to strengthen the work of case trials and ruling enforcement in order to improve the ability to resolve disputes and the quality of litigation services.

The intelligence level of case trials and ruling enforcement and the case-handling platform must be improved and upgraded. The ability to analyse judicial big data must also be enhanced with the big data management and knowledge service platform becoming more inclusive. Meanwhile, the judicial management platform must be more convenient.