Xi promotes judicial reform, IP tribunals

Judicial professionals said they were glad to see China's leadership is accelerating judicial reform and putting some legal plans into practice.

China's Leading Group for Overall Reform recently held its third meeting, approving two documents on piloting reform of the judicial system, including Shanghai's pilot program, and a plan to set up special tribunals on intellectual property rights.

President Xi Jinping stressed that some basic work, such as the building of the IP special courts and unification of personnel and property in local courts and prosecutors below provincial level, should be pushed forward.