Under the Hague Service Convention, this is how the service of judicial documents issued by the foreign judicial authority works in China.
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The procedure of service is as follows:
A foreign Forwarding Party sends a request to the Ministry of Justice of China (MOJ), and the request should be in the Hague Forms of the Hague Service Convention—> the MOJ of China forwards the papers to the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) after a preliminary review of the request and judicial documents attached—> the SPC of China reviews the request and, distributes them to a local court through provincial high courts and intermediate courts, —>the local court arranges the service, then sends back the proof of service to the MOJ of China along the same route, backwards—> the MOJ of China issues a formal certificate and sends it back to the foreign Forwarding Party.
Source: Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China, the Most Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (posted on HCCH), available at https://www.hcch.net/en/states/authorities/details3/?aid=243.
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