
Tue, 12 Aug 2025 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
A Beijing court enforced a debt judgment for the first time by seizing and selling a company's carbon emission allowances, raising over $139,000 to pay owed wages to workers.
Tue, 12 Aug 2025 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
A Beijing court enforced a debt judgment for the first time by seizing and selling a company's carbon emission allowances, raising over $139,000 to pay owed wages to workers.
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 China Legal Trends CJO Staff Contributors Team
In April 2025, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued six guiding cases to improve enforcement efficiency, standardize practices, and coordinate enforcement with bankruptcy proceedings.
Sun, 27 Mar 2022 China Legal Trends Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
The 2021 Conference Summary enables an ever greater number of foreign judgments to be enforced in China, by making substantial improvements from both the “threshold” and “criteria”.
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 Insights Jian Zhang 张建
How would Chinese courts view arbitral awards where foreign tribunals reject a force majeure claim connected to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic?
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Australian courts recognized two Chinese judgments while refused one. The situation in Australia can help us analyze how de facto reciprocity is determined by Chinese courts in recognizing foreign judgments.
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
The system of dishonest judgment debtors has become the main means for Chinese courts to enforce civil judgments for 5 years. This system has achieved certain results, but it has also given rise to some problems and raised public concerns.
Sat, 29 Dec 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋
Why should Chinese courts try to resolve the enforcement predicament of civil judgments in two to three years (i.e., 2016-2018)? Justice Zhou Qiang (周强), president of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC), explained this in a report on 24 October 2018, and introduced what the Chinese courts did for this.
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
In China, if the judgment debtor fails to fulfill their obligations, while also undertakes certain dishonest conducts, the court will include the them into the publicly available List of Dishonest Judgment Debtors.
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Judge Gao Xiaoli of China's Supreme People's Court talks about recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in China.
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 Insights Guodong Du 杜国栋 , Meng Yu 余萌
Judge Gao Xiaoli of China’s Supreme People’s Court talks about recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in China.