The Supreme People's Court ("SPC") has recently issued the Opinions on Deepening the Enforcement Reform and Improving the Long-term Mechanism for Resolving Difficulties in Enforcement – Outline of Enforcement Work of People's Courts (2019-2023) (the "Outline").
The Outline is comprised of three parts, namely, General Requirements, Main Tasks, and Implementation and Organization. The main contents emphasize finding and eliminating root causes to resolve difficulties in enforcement, adopting information technologies to modernize modes of enforcement, showing "zero tolerance" for enforcement irregularities, such as passive enforcement, and deepening the enforcement reform. The Outline states that efforts will be made to push the introduction of local regulations and normative documents, move forward with improvement to the legal system for compulsory enforcement and the supporting systems, and complete the research into and the drafting of the law on compulsory enforcement in civil cases by the end of 2019. The "1+2+N" enforcement information systems will be optimized, the system involves improving the inquiry and control systems for online enforcement by people's courts, improving the punishment systems for dishonest acts, developing and fully promoting the appraisal systems for property subject to enforcement, and stepping up the development of online judicial sale systems. Furthermore, the Outline highlights the adoption of the "one case, dual investigations" mechanism, under which both violations of party members and cadres and disciplinary offence of discipline inspectors will be investigated in a single case, and calls for looking into and pursuing liability to respond to complaint letters and visits. Cases will be handled in a group-based style, and such group will be led by the judge and formed by "the judge, the assistant to the judge (or the enforcement officer), the bailiff and the court clerk".