The Supreme People's Court issued the "Report on the People's Courts Serving and Guaranteeing the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2019-2022)" (full text attached)

  On June 23, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Report on the People's Courts Serving and Guaranteeing the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2019-2022)", which comprehensively summarizes the people's courts' exercise of judicial functions to serve and safeguard the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

  Since the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan" three years ago, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has continued to achieve new progress and achievements, and is moving towards building a dynamic and internationally competitive first-class bay area and world-class urban agglomeration Speed ​​up.

The people's courts have always adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly studied Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, resolutely implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and important instructions on the work of Hong Kong and Macao, and unswervingly, comprehensively and accurately implemented "one country, two systems". The policy and the central decision-making and deployment will actively contribute wisdom and strength to promote the realization of the Greater Bay Area's short-term development plan in 2022 and long-term development goals in 2035.

  The report introduces the main situations of the people's courts serving and safeguarding the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area from five aspects:

  The first is to improve the system and improve the mechanism, and implement the national strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a national strategy personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Serving, guaranteeing, supporting and promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is an unshirkable mission of the times for the people's courts, as well as a rare historical opportunity for the innovation and development of the people's courts.

  The Supreme People's Court attaches great importance to it, and the people's courts at all levels in Guangdong Province take the initiative to act.

The Supreme People's Court has successively issued the "Opinions on Providing Judicial Services and Guarantee for the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", "Opinions on Supporting and Guaranteeing Shenzhen's Construction of a Pilot Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", and "On Supporting and Guaranteeing Hengqin-Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation". Several judicial documents such as the Opinions on District Construction and the Opinions on Supporting and Guaranteeing the Comprehensive Deepening of the Reform and Opening up of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, have laid a solid foundation for institutional guarantees.

The Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province promoted the implementation of 46 reform measures in the form of "list + ledger", and accumulated more than 20 items of experience that can be promoted and replicated, and actively promoted the implementation of the central decision-making and deployment.

  The second is to deepen judicial exchanges and cooperation, and create a new model for the practice of "one country, two systems" in the new era.

Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have the same cultural origin and are closely related to each other. The people's courts have continuously strengthened judicial exchanges with Hong Kong and Macao, deepened the level of cooperation, supported the integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the overall development of the country, and promoted the integrated development of the three places to a new level.

  Consolidate and expand communication channels.

Continue the exchange mechanisms such as the Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macau Judicial High-level Forum, the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau Judicial High-level Exchange Visits, and the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau Trial Symposium, and continuously create a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Case Study Base and a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Judicial Case Seminar.” Qianhai Legal Intelligence Forum” and other new platforms for judicial cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, exchanges and integration, mutual learning and mutual learning.

Promote professional training exchanges.

Continue to promote the cooperation project between the National Judges Academy and Hong Kong and Macao universities, establish and improve the training mechanism for judges proficient in the laws of the three places; hold training courses in the field of Macao justice, and realize the mainland training for all Macao judges; hold trial training related to Hong Kong and Macao, and special training courses on judicial protection, etc. , strengthen the training of cross-border legal talents.

Build a platform for participation in judicial work.

The Supreme People's Court invited Hong Kong and Macao experts to serve as expert members of the International Commercial Expert Committee, and issued judicial policies to support Hong Kong and Macao lawyers practicing in the Mainland.

Guangdong courts have actively explored the appointment of people from Hong Kong and Macao as people's assessors, invited people from Hong Kong and Macao to serve as specially-invited mediators, piloted the legal identification system of Hong Kong and Macao experts, etc., and supported Hong Kong and Macao compatriots in participating in the people's judicial work.

Attach importance to youth training, internship and employment support.

The Supreme People's Court launched the Mainland summer internship program for Hong Kong and Macao legal students, the National Judges College held the first training class for young legal talents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Shenzhen Court accepted Hong Kong and Macao students from mainland universities for on-the-job internships to promote the integration of Hong Kong and Macao youths and participation in the country's rule of law construction.

  The third is to unblock the connection of judicial and legal rules, and transform the differences of the system into the benefits of the system.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has the characteristics of "one country, two systems and three jurisdictions".

Promoting the convergence of judicial and legal rules is an important part of the people's courts adhering to the foundation of "one country", making good use of the benefits of "two systems", and writing a new chapter of "one country, two systems" in the judicial field.

  Establish and improve the inter-district judicial assistance system.

On the basis of having signed 5 judicial assistance arrangements with Hong Kong and 3 judicial assistance arrangements with Macau, the Supreme People's Court has signed 3 judicial assistance arrangements and 1 judicial assistance document with Hong Kong and 2 judicial assistance arrangements with Macau in the past three years. , the construction of an inter-regional civil and commercial judicial assistance system with Chinese characteristics has entered the fast lane.

Improve the recognition and enforcement mechanism for civil and commercial judgments.

The Supreme People's Court and Hong Kong signed an arrangement for mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial cases, covering more than 90% of the effective judgments in the civil and commercial fields of the two places; the mutual recognition and enforcement of civil judgments in marriage and family civil cases between the mainland and Hong Kong are known as judicial assistance between the two places The field is most focused on public opinion, closest to people's livelihood, and most in line with the people's will.

Improve the assistance mechanism in the field of arbitration.

The Supreme People's Court and Hong Kong and Macao have successively signed arrangements for mutual assistance and preservation of arbitration proceedings, and supplementary arrangements for mutual enforcement of arbitral awards between the Mainland and Hong Kong, realizing the full coverage of arbitration assistance between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, and supporting the development and growth of the legal service industry in Hong Kong and Macao.

Improve the service and evidence collection assistance mechanism.

Amend and improve the mutual entrustment between the Mainland and Macao for the service of judicial documents and the collection of evidence, establish a judicial assistance network exchange platform, and realize online transfer, online review, online processing and online tracking of the entire process of service and evidence collection assistance. The average case processing cycle is shortened to One-fifth of the original; Nansha, Qianhai, and Hengqin courts are authorized to carry out judicial assistance directly with Macao, and technology helps speed up and increase the efficiency of inter-regional judicial assistance.

  Fourth, give full play to the judicial function and optimize the legalized business environment in the Greater Bay Area.

The solid promotion of institutional reform and innovation and regional governance model innovation is the key content of the people's court's insistence on serving and safeguarding the high-level economic innovation and competitiveness of the Greater Bay Area.

The People's Courts continue to enhance the development vitality of the Greater Bay Area and promote the formation of a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment.

  Fair and efficient trial of cases.

In the past three years (2019-2021, the same below), the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have concluded a total of 53,600 cases involving Hong Kong and Macao, safeguarding the parties' various procedural and substantive rights in accordance with the law; continue to promote trial-centered criminal proceedings Institutional reform, increase the protection of non-public property, promote the integrated construction of judicial protection of the ecological environment, and serve the construction of a beautiful bay area with convenient life and social stability.

Adhere to innovation leadership.

Implement the intellectual property punitive compensation system, improve the medical patent litigation system, give full play to the role of the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court and the Shenzhen Intellectual Property Court, promote the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Intellectual Property Alliance, hire Hong Kong and Macao people as intellectual property consulting experts, and create a highland for intellectual property judicial protection .

Strengthen financial judicial protection.

Issued the "Implementation Opinions on Providing Judicial Guarantee for Shenzhen Stock Exchange Growth Enterprise Market Reform and Pilot Registration System", applying the "support litigation + demonstration case" mechanism to hear securities infringement disputes, and support the development of the financial industry in the Greater Bay Area.

Give play to the protection and rescue function of the bankruptcy system.

The mainland and Hong Kong have established a cross-border bankruptcy assistance mechanism to strengthen legal certainty in cross-border trade and investment, and implement cross-border bankruptcy management fairly and efficiently; the people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have concluded 13,100 first-instance bankruptcy cases and cleared "zombie companies" according to law , to help distressed enterprises recover their vitality; to promote the promulgation of the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Personal Bankruptcy Regulations", to settle the first case of personal bankruptcy liquidation, reorganization and reconciliation in the mainland, and to promote the formation of a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment.

  The fifth is to improve cross-border judicial services to meet the "needs of Hong Kong and Macao" and "the direction of the Bay Area".

Enhancing people's livelihood and well-being is the starting point and goal for the people's courts to serve and safeguard the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and to promote the integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the overall development of the country.

The people's courts have introduced various measures to facilitate and benefit the people, constantly enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness and security in the Greater Bay Area.

  Strengthen the construction of a one-stop litigation service system.

100% of the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area provide cross-regional filing services. The parties can choose the nearest People's Court Litigation Service Center to submit the lawsuit materials to the competent court, "Let the people run less errands and let the data run more"; promote Hong Kong-related The "E-key service" of litigation documents has effectively improved the efficiency of cross-border service; the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court has created an authorized witness platform, which shortens the time for authorized witnessing from 30 days to 5 minutes, facilitating the participation of Hong Kong and Macao residents in litigation.

Intensify efforts to resolve cross-border conflicts and disputes in a diversified manner.

The International Commercial Court of the Supreme People's Court established a "trinity" "one-stop" international commercial dispute resolution platform; Guangdong courts relied on social forces and online mediation platforms to mediate 1.119 million cases, and invited qualified Hong Kong and Macao mediators to settle in the people's courts for online mediation The platform responds to the diverse needs of people in the Bay Area for dispute resolution.

Link Hong Kong and Macau to build an international commercial dispute resolution center.

The People's Court of Qianhai Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen innovated a new mechanism for the management of litigation sources for commercial disputes involving Hong Kong and Macau, integrated the beneficial experience of judicial practice in Hong Kong and Macau, and improved the mediation mechanism and the "non-connection of litigation" mechanism; the People's Court of Nansha District of Guangzhou City implemented "Mainland + Hong Kong and Macau" mediation The "Double Mediation" model of members, linking Hong Kong and Macau to build an international commercial dispute resolution center.

  Under the personal care and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has ushered in a new stage of full implementation and accelerated progress.

The People's Court will also embark on a new journey to serve and guarantee the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The people's court will continue to shoulder the mission of judicial assistance in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with a high degree of political consciousness, and solidly promote various aspects that are conducive to maintaining the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, improving people's livelihood and well-being, and promoting the better integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the country. The work measures for the development of the overall situation, to welcome the victory of the Party's 20th National Congress with excellent results.

The people's court serves and guarantees the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Situation Report (2019-2022)

  The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a national strategy personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Under the personal care and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the beautiful blueprint for the construction of the Greater Bay Area is becoming a reality. Hard and soft connectivity has been continuously strengthened. The cooperation between the three places has become more in-depth and extensive, and the Greater Bay Area has shown unprecedented vitality.

Serving, guaranteeing, supporting and promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is an unshirkable mission of the times for the people's courts, and it is also a rare historical opportunity for the innovation and development of the people's courts.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a strategic plan to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Since the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan", the people's courts have always adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and deepened the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Study Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, resolutely implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and important instructions on the work of Hong Kong and Macao, unswervingly, fully and accurately implement the "one country, two systems" policy and the central decision-making arrangements, and promote the connection between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao's judicial and legal rules, and deepen Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Significant progress has been made in judicial exchanges and cooperation, improving cross-border commercial dispute resolution mechanisms, and promoting the creation of a globally competitive business environment, making positive contributions to the realization of the near-term development plan for the Greater Bay Area in 2022 and the long-term development goals for 2035. Wisdom and power.

1. Improve the system and improve the mechanism, and implement the national strategy for building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

  Improve the working mechanism and form a horizontal coordination and vertical work pattern.

The Supreme People's Court attached great importance to it, and immediately set up a special working group for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area jointly composed of relevant departments in the hospital and the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province. High-level courts form a joint effort.

The Guangdong Higher People's Court actively assumes the main responsibility, actively establishes a working mechanism to serve and guarantee the construction of the Greater Bay Area, and regularly holds special meetings to study and promote key tasks.

The Supreme People's Court continued to promote the improvement of the judicial cooperation mechanism between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau, signed the "Minutes of Talks" with Hong Kong and Macau on strengthening judicial and legal exchanges and cooperation, and instructed the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province and the Hong Kong Department of Justice to sign the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Legal Exchange and Mutual Cooperation". "Framework Arrangement" to effectively leverage the comprehensive advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and use judicial assistance to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with high quality.

  Consolidate the institutional foundation and continue to promote the implementation of the central decision-making and deployment.

The Supreme People's Court successively issued the "Opinions on Providing Judicial Services and Guarantee for the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", "Opinions on Supporting and Guaranteeing Shenzhen's Construction of a Pilot Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", and "On Supporting and Guaranteeing the In-depth Cooperation between Guangdong and Macao in Hengqin". "Opinions on District Construction" and "Opinions on Supporting and Guaranteeing the Comprehensive Deepening of the Reform and Opening up of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone", etc., to truly achieve "where the decisions of the Party Central Committee are deployed, judicial services will follow up."

The Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province has successively formulated the "Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" and the "Three-Year Action Plan for Supporting Shenzhen to Build a Pilot Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", and promoted 46 reform measures in the form of "list + ledger" The implementation is effective, and more than 20 items of experience that can be promoted and replicated have been formed, and the pertinence and timeliness of judicial service guarantees have been continuously improved.

  Strengthen organizational guarantees and improve the overall level of the rule of law in the Greater Bay Area.

The local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area generally promote the centralized trial of foreign-related civil and commercial cases involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and explore a professional trial model of "professional judges + Hong Kong and Macao jurors + industry experts".

Actively leverage the location and policy advantages of the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area, and explore and accumulate practical experience that can be promoted and replicated in such aspects as centralized jurisdiction over Hong Kong and Macau-related cases, separation of complicated and simple cases, and expanded application of laws.

The Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province has released 60 typical cases of cross-border disputes in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for three consecutive years, providing professional and clear legal guidance for parties in the three places.

The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court established the first administrative trial center in the Mainland to implement centralized jurisdiction of administrative cases, and took the lead in exploring the transfer of some administrative cases involving Hong Kong and Macao to the jurisdiction of grassroots courts.

The People's Court of the Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone in Hengqin was inaugurated, strengthening and expanding the functions of the courts, and serving the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Zone to jointly discuss, jointly build, jointly manage and share a new mechanism.

2. Deepen judicial exchanges and cooperation, and create a new model for the practice of "one country, two systems" in the new era

  Consolidate and expand communication channels and promote the integrated development of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao.

On the basis of the first round of judicial high-level forums across the Taiwan Straits and Hong Kong and Macau, the fifth and sixth forums were successfully held, and its influence continued to expand.

Actively promote the construction of platforms such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Case Study Base and the Guangzhou International Shipping Judicial Research Center.

Hold "Qianhai Legal Intelligence Forum", International Seminar on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Judicial Case Seminar, "Judicial and Arbitration" Development Forum, "Judicial and Technology" Symposium, etc. consensus.

Invite high-level judicial officials from Hong Kong and Macao as the official representatives of the Chinese side to participate in international judicial exchange activities such as the China Judicial Research Summit Forum and the International Forum on Judicial Cooperation on the Maritime Silk Road to further strengthen the awareness of the Chinese nation as a community and jointly promote the new achievements in the development of the "one country, two systems" cause.

  Promote professional training exchanges and strengthen cross-border legal talent training.

The National Judges College and the City University of Hong Kong have continued the training mechanism for mainland judges. In the past three years, more than 150 mainland judges have been selected to participate in the master's, doctoral and senior judge training programs; a cooperation mechanism has been established with the University of Macau, and more than 20 mainland judges have been selected to participate in the master's and doctoral training programs. Project; held the fourth and fifth training courses in the judicial field of the Macao Special Administrative Region, and successfully realized the first round of training for all members of the current Macao judges in the Mainland.

Guangdong courts regularly hold training courses on trials involving Hong Kong and Macao, special training courses on judicial safeguards in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, and "practice training courses on common law adjudication", and establish a mechanism for inter-office exchanges and follow-up learning between lower and lower courts to comprehensively improve the judicial capabilities of Hong Kong and Macao trial teams. and professional level.

  Build a professional cooperation platform to support compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao to participate in the construction of the country's rule of law.

The Supreme People's Court established the First International Commercial Court in Shenzhen, pioneered the international commercial expert committee system, and hired 4 professionals from Hong Kong and Macao as expert members; issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Expanding the Opening-up of People's Courts' Service Guarantee" and "On the People's Courts to Further Opinions on Providing Judicial Services and Guarantee for the Construction of the "Belt and Road"", to support the pilot work of Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao lawyers to engage in the legal profession in nine mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; promulgated the "People's Court Online Mediation Rules", inviting qualified Conditional Hong Kong and Macao mediators have entered the online mediation platform of the people's court.

There are currently 49 people's assessors from Hong Kong and Macau in the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area, who directly participate in the trial of cases in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

The Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province established a court system for experts in extraterritorial law identification, and tried out Hong Kong and Macao experts to appear in court to provide assistance in legal identification; jointly issued the "Guangdong Free Trade Zone Cross-border Commercial Dispute Mediation Rules" with the Guangdong Provincial Department of Justice to integrate the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Mediation resources, establish a unified roster of Hong Kong and Macao mediators in the province, and hire 61 specially invited mediators from Hong Kong and Macao to participate in the resolution of disputes in the people's courts.

  Attach importance to youth training, internship and employment support, and promote the integration of Hong Kong and Macao youths to participate in national development.

The Supreme People's Court continues to carry out the Mainland internship program for Hong Kong legal students. In 2019, it launched the first batch of Mainland internship programs for Macao legal students. Interns are arranged to go to the First Circuit Court and the People's Courts of Guangdong Province at all levels to gain a close understanding of the basic national conditions, the legal system of the Mainland and The development of the rule of law in the country.

The National Judges College held the first training course for young legal talents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. 36 Hong Kong lawyers and barristers participated, building a new platform for the training of legal talents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The Shenzhen Court focuses on Hong Kong students from colleges and universities in Guangdong Province, and accepts Hong Kong students from Sun Yat-Sen University, Jinan University and other colleges and universities for on-the-job internships, urging them to understand the judicial practice and economic and social development of the Mainland in an all-round and multi-angle manner.

3. Unblock the connection of judicial and legal rules, and transform the differences of the system into the benefits of the system

  Establish and improve the inter-regional judicial assistance system, and give full play to the advantages of "one country, two systems and three jurisdictions".

The Supreme People's Court and relevant parties in Hong Kong and Macao have always adhered to the principle of "one country" and made good use of the benefits of "two systems". fast lane.

In the past three years, the mainland has signed three judicial assistance arrangements and one judicial assistance document with Hong Kong, and two judicial assistance arrangements with Macao.

The Supreme People's Court issued a white paper "Practice of Judicial Assistance in Civil and Commercial Matters between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", which systematically reviewed and reviewed the practical experience of implementing "one country, two systems" in the judicial field since the promulgation of the Basic Law of Hong Kong 30 years ago, and looked forward to future work priorities.

The Guangdong Higher People's Court has studied and formulated the joint opinions on the legal rules for the handling of commercial disputes involving Hong Kong and Macao by the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area; actively implemented the arrangements that have taken effect, and formulated the "Work Guidelines on Handling Judicial Assistance Cases" for three years (2019-2022, The same below) The local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area handled 3,167 judicial assistance cases involving Hong Kong and Macao in a standardized and efficient manner, including 2,520 cases involving Hong Kong and 647 cases involving Macao.

  Improve the recognition and enforcement mechanism for civil and commercial judgments, and promote the "free circulation" of judgments in cross-border disputes.

The Supreme People's Court and Hong Kong signed the "Arrangement on Mutual Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Cases between Mainland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Courts", covering more than 90% of the effective judgments in the civil and commercial fields of the two places, and making forward-looking provisions on the mutual recognition of judgments in intellectual property cases. To the greatest extent possible, the parties in the two places are protected from the burden of repeated lawsuits.

The "Arrangement on Mutual Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Marriage and Family Civil Cases by the Courts of the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" came into effect, including all types of cases such as the return of minor children that are of great concern to all walks of life in Hong Kong, and implementing the value concept of maximizing the interests of children. It is an innovation that is most focused on public opinion, closest to people's livelihood, and most in line with people's will in the field of judicial assistance in the two places.

  Improve the assistance mechanism in the field of arbitration and support the development and growth of the legal service industry in Hong Kong and Macau.

The Supreme People's Court and Hong Kong and Macau have successively signed the "Arrangement on Mutual Assistance and Preservation of Arbitral Proceedings by the Courts of the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", "Supplementary Arrangement on the Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", and "Relationship between the Mainland and the Macao Special Administrative Region in Arbitral Proceedings". Arrangement for Assistance in Preservation", which allows parties to arbitration proceedings in Hong Kong and Macau to apply for preservation in the People's Court of the Mainland, to achieve full coverage of arbitration assistance in the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau, and to provide new impetus and inject new vitality into Hong Kong's establishment as an international legal and dispute resolution service center in the Asia-Pacific region; The promotion and application of arbitration in Macao serves the moderate and diversified development of Macao's economy.

  Improve the service and evidence collection assistance mechanism, and technology helps speed up and increase the efficiency of inter-regional judicial assistance.

Amend and improve the "Arrangement on Mutual Entrustment of the Courts of the Mainland and the Macao Special Administrative Region for the Service of Judicial Documents and the Collection of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Cases", establish a judicial assistance network exchange platform, use information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of judicial assistance, and achieve full service and evidence collection. The process of online transfer, online review, online handling and online tracking has shortened the average case handling period from 177.45 days to 34.38 days, further opening up an effective path for the connection between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao rules.

The Supreme People's Court authorized the Nansha, Qianhai, and Hengqin courts to carry out judicial assistance directly with Macao, to establish closer judicial ties under the "one country, two systems" principle, to reduce the transmission link, and to improve the efficiency of assistance.

4. Give full play to judicial functions and optimize the legalized business environment in the Greater Bay Area

  Trial cases fairly and efficiently, and serve the construction of a beautiful bay area with convenient living and social stability.

In the past three years, the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have adhered to fair and efficient administration of justice, concluded a total of 53,600 cases involving Hong Kong and Macao, and safeguarded the litigation and substantive rights of the parties in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in accordance with the law.

Continue to push forward the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on trial, and strictly implement the requirements for substantive court trials.

Deepen the full coverage of lawyers' defense in criminal cases, and assign assistance lawyers to criminal defendants in Hong Kong and Macao in accordance with the law.

Focused on increasing the protection of non-public property, and concluded 2,056 first-instance cases of economic crimes against corporate property rights such as illegal fundraising and contract fraud, effectively safeguarding the property safety of private enterprises.

The Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province formulated ten measures to standardize property preservation, strictly limited the preservation of property and basic corporate accounts necessary for the production and operation of enterprises; formulated opinions on promoting the substantial resolution of administrative disputes, concluded 56,400 administrative cases of first instance, and coordinated and resolved 9,943 administrative disputes involving enterprises Adhering to the ecological environment orientation of “livable”, “suitable for industry” and “suitable for travel”, concluded 19,800 first-instance environmental resource cases, promoted the establishment of an enforcement mechanism for ecological environment damage restoration judgments, and promoted the judicial protection of ecological environment in nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area Integrated construction; escorted the "Belt and Road" construction in accordance with the law, concluded 9,608 maritime and commercial cases of first instance, and continuously enhanced the international influence of my country's judiciary.

  Adhere to innovation and leadership, and create a highland for intellectual property judicial protection.

The Supreme People's Court has successively issued the Interpretation on the Application of Punitive Compensation in the Trial of Civil Cases of Intellectual Property Rights and the Provisions on Several Issues concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Cases of Patent Disputes Related to Drugs Applied for Registration, etc., to implement the punitive compensation system for intellectual property rights. Improve the pharmaceutical patent litigation system, enhance high-level economic innovation and competitiveness, and serve the construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Greater Bay Area.

In the past three years, the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have concluded a total of 448,900 first-instance intellectual property cases, applied 293 punitive damages cases, and continued to increase punitive damages.

Strengthen the trial guidelines in the fields of standard-essential patents and online games, establish for the first time in the OPPO v. Sharp case the jurisdiction over the global licensing rates of standard-essential patents, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.

Based on the actual construction of the Greater Bay Area, Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court cooperates with Macau Intellectual Property Research Center, Jinan University Intellectual Property School, Hong Kong University School of Law and other institutions to promote the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Intellectual Property Alliance; Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court and Shenzhen Intellectual Property Court explore Establish technical investigators to attend professional judge meetings, adjudication committee system and intellectual property consulting expert system, and hire professionals from Hong Kong and Macao as expert committee members; establish a rapid rights protection mechanism, shorten the trial period of intellectual property expedited cases to 45 days, and lead intellectual property rights internally The development of protection work, externally shaping the image of the rule of law in protecting intellectual property rights, and linking Hong Kong and Macao to create a preferred choice for cross-border intellectual property dispute resolution.

  Strengthen financial judicial protection and support the development of the financial industry in the Greater Bay Area.

In the past three years, the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have concluded 704,600 financial cases of first instance, and severely punished serious financial crimes such as illegal fundraising, foreign exchange evasion and arbitrage, and insider trading.

Guangdong Higher People's Court issued the "Implementation Opinions on Providing Judicial Guarantee for Shenzhen Stock Exchange Growth Enterprise Market Reform and Pilot Registration System" to serve and guarantee financial reform and innovation; explore the establishment of a financial judicial coordination platform, promote the improvement of cross-border financial supervision, and effectively prevent regional and systemic financial risks.

Courts in Guangzhou, Foshan and other places successfully tried a series of cases involving Kangmei Pharmaceutical. Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court concluded the first securities infringement dispute in mainland China using the “support litigation + demonstration case” mechanism, which properly and quickly resolved group disputes and reduced investors’ rights protection costs. Improve the efficiency of capital market governance.

  Give play to the protection and rescue function of the bankruptcy system, and promote the formation of a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment.

Signed the "Minutes of the Meeting on Mutual Recognition and Assistance in Bankruptcy Procedures between the Courts of the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", and at the same time the Supreme People's Court issued the "Opinions on Carrying out the Pilot Work of Recognizing and Assisting the Bankruptcy Procedures in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", establishing a cross-border bankruptcy assistance mechanism for the first time. Strengthen legal certainty in cross-border trade and investment, and ensure that market players concentrate on starting businesses, investing with confidence, and operating with confidence.

The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court recognized and assisted Senxin International Paper Co., Ltd. in the Hong Kong bankruptcy proceedings, marking that cross-border bankruptcy assistance has entered the stage of judicial practice from the establishment of the mechanism.

In the past three years, the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have concluded 13,100 first-instance bankruptcy cases, cleared 4,233 "zombie enterprises" according to law, and promoted 61 enterprises to recover from bankruptcy and reorganization.

Establish a unified and cross-regional bankruptcy administrator system in Guangdong Province, and actively promote the pilot program of cross-border bankruptcy.

Promote the promulgation of the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Personal Bankruptcy Regulations", and set up the Shenzhen Bankruptcy Administration Office in the Shenzhen Intermediate Court, which has successively completed the first personal bankruptcy liquidation, reorganization and reconciliation cases in the mainland, so that "honest and unfortunate" debtors can be "reborn" "Opportunities to realize the rule of law path of survival of the fittest and orderly exit of market entities.

V. Improve cross-regional judicial services to meet the "needs of Hong Kong and Macao" and "the direction of the Bay Area"

  Strengthen the construction of a one-stop litigation service system to facilitate the participation of Hong Kong and Macao residents in litigation.

The local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area have formed a unified, standardized and standardized litigation service specification, which effectively realizes online case filing, online payment, online witness, online cross-examination, online mediation, online trial, and electronic file management.

Establish a normalized litigation service mechanism for epidemic prevention and control, and further promote the reform of cross-domain litigation services. 100% of the local people's courts in the Greater Bay Area provide cross-domain case filing services. The parties can choose the nearest People's Court Litigation Service Center to submit a lawsuit to the competent court Materials, "Let the masses run less errands and let data run more"; promote the "E-key service" of Hong Kong-related litigation documents, and continuously improve the efficiency of overseas service.

The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court created the first online platform for authorized witnessing of cases involving Hong Kong and Macau in mainland China, and actively promoted its use throughout Guangdong Province, shortening the time for authorized witnessing from about 30 days in the traditional way to 5 minutes, which greatly saves the litigation costs of Hong Kong and Macau parties. Effectively enhance Hong Kong and Macao compatriots' sense of acquisition of judicial services from the people's courts.

  Intensify efforts to resolve cross-border conflicts and disputes in a diversified manner, and respond to the diverse needs of people in the Bay Area for dispute resolution.

The International Commercial Court of the Supreme People's Court has established a "three-in-one" "one-stop" international commercial dispute resolution platform, forming a diversified resolution mechanism for international commercial disputes that organically connects litigation, mediation and arbitration.

Guangdong courts are committed to improving the efficiency and convenience of cross-border commercial mediation through online mediation, relying on social forces and online mediation platforms to mediate 1.119 million cases.

Among them, the Guangzhou Internet Court launched the first cross-Hong Kong and Macao online dispute resolution platform, with 90 mediation institutions and 82,900 disputes settled.

In July 2019, Guangzhou Internet Court realized online cross-domain litigation and mediation docking for the first time. The parties and mediators in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Macau seamlessly connected and completed mediation online, and shared the achievements of smart court construction with Hong Kong and Macau.

Guangzhou Nansha Court established the first court-based intellectual property dispute mediation center at the port, and the first overseas trademark infringement dispute was successfully mediated within 2 hours.

The People's Court of Shenzhen Qianhai Cooperation Zone has established a "Belt and Road" legal public service platform covering 31 countries and regions along the route, bringing together nearly a thousand legal professionals to provide Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign law identification services online.

  Give full play to the advantages of the opening up of the Greater Bay Area, and link Hong Kong and Macau to build an international commercial dispute resolution center.

The People's Court of Qianhai Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen, gave full play to the role of the "One Belt, One Road" international commercial litigation and mediation docking center, established cooperative relations and communication mechanisms with 48 domestic and foreign mediation agencies, and successfully mediated 4,880 disputes in total, promoting multiple solutions to conflicts and disputes; innovative A new mechanism for the governance of litigation sources for commercial disputes involving Hong Kong and Macau, integrating the beneficial experience of judicial practice in Hong Kong and Macau, promoting the pre-filing mediation mechanism, neutral third-party evaluation mechanism, preventing and punishing false mediation and other methods for specific types of cases, and improving the mediation mechanism and the “connection between litigation and non-compliance”. "mechanism.

Guangzhou Nansha District People's Court and Beijing "Belt and Road" Commercial Mediation Center established a diversified dispute resolution cooperation mechanism, and implemented the "Mainland + Hong Kong and Macau" mediator "dual mediation" model for commercial cases involving foreign-related, Hong Kong and Macau financial disputes, building an international, An export-oriented, cooperative and diversified dispute resolution system.

  The people's courts will always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions, and continuously improve judicial services and guarantee capabilities. Promote the integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area regional market and the in-depth connection of the judicial and legal rules of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, in order to maintain a stable and healthy economic environment, a social environment of national security and public security, and a clean political environment. Actively contribute.