Editor’s note: A group of deputies to the National People’s Congress shared their opinions and suggestions on the work report of the Supreme People’s Court during the annual two sessions of China's top legislative and national advisory bodies. Let’s take a look at what they say about the improvement of SPC’s work in the future.

Huang Qifan, mayor of Chongqing

The Supreme People’s Court has performed their duties empowered by the Constitution and the law, improved their capabilities to serve economic growth, achieved a great deal in anti-corruption, and further enhanced awareness of risk prevention. The judicial reform has brought out positive results. To facilitate the supply-side structural reform, it is suggested that when handling complicated cases involving bankruptcy liquidations, a mechanism combining administrative and civil mediation, judicial trials, and cross-regional enforcement coordination should be implemented to ensure smooth reduction of excessive capacity. I also hope the Court will help Chongqing set up an international arbitration center.

Liu Weiping, governor of Northwest

China's Gansu province Gansu will fully implement the construction of a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and meet all the requirements of building a socialist rule of law country. It will also take the lead to promote law-based governance and act in compliance with the law, as well as support the judicial and procuratorial organs to exercise adjudicative and procuratorial powers independently.

The SPC may sort out laws and regulations guiding regional innovation-driven development and promoting supply-side structural reform. And by drawing on its trial-based experience, it can also set up an effective mechanism for preventing new contradictions and challenges under the “new normal” of economic development.

Liu Hui, chairman of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region

In 2015, the Supreme People’s Court aggressively pursued the goal of China’s rule of law – “letting the people feel fairness and justice in every single case” -- and dealt with a large number of cases involving duty-related crimes; great innovations have been made in China’s judicial reform.

I advise the SPC to provide stronger support to personnel training, educational resources, and funding for courts in regions inhabited by ethnic minorities and offer judicial support for supply-side structural reform. Governments at all levels should support and guarantee judicial bodies’ fulfillment of their duties in accordance with the law.

Yin Yicui, chair of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress

The difficulties of case-filing and law enforcement have been a major public concern, and breakthroughs have been made in solving the difficulty of case-filing. I found that the percentage of case filing-related petitions through letters and visits declined significantly in the past two years.

I suggest the SPC to focus more on legal workers, especially judge assistants. The lifelong judicial accountability system is right but it should be explained thoroughly to judges to encourage them to take responsibility for their cases.

Wu Lan, head of Inner Mongolia’s publicity department

Efforts on training bilingual judges in regions inhabited by ethnic minorities should be strengthened for better judicial services in the minority languages.

Professional training for judicial officers, in particular those who work in border areas and areas with concentrations of ethnic minorities, may need more attention.

Chang Junzheng, vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region

I am impressed by the progress in major tasks, improvement of judicial credibility, innovations of judicial reform and the great concern for people’s livelihoods in the SPC’s work report.

I advise the court to provide more support and guidance to judicial work in border areas and areas with concentrations of ethnic minorities and to speed up the construction of local pilot environmental resource tribunals.

Hurtsaa, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region's People's Congress

The SPC’s work report emphasizes the rule of law and service awareness. Training and education in line with the ever-changing circumstances of judicial personnel is essential and more judicial interpretations should be made to facilitate application of laws.

Zhao Guohong, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress

The SPC should strengthen specific guidance and supervision of regional pilots for judicial reform and promote reform with an overarching perspective and higher level design.

Better security systems and improved mechanisms for judges’ entries and exits in the profession should be implemented to ensure the best ones remain in their posts and judges at grassroots levels are more professionally specialized.

A scientific approach to assess judges’ performances on specific cases should be established.