China's courts are required to launch intelligent courts, optimize judicial policies and deepen judicial reform to better serve the people and opening-up strategy, Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People's Court, stressed at a Leading Party Members' Group meeting on Nov 9.

At the meeting, a work report on this year's case enforcement and new requirements for judicial work in the new year was delivered.

According to the statistics collected by the Big Data Management and Service Platform and the Enforcement Management Platform, an increased number of cases were accepted and concluded by courts at various levels in China from January to September this year.

The rate of case conclusion has risen and the trial period has shortened.

At the meeting, new requirements such as promoting construction of intelligent courts and properly allocating judicial resources to deepen judicial reform were refererenced.

Adoption by court of innovative measures to handle cases like artificial intelligence and judicial big data, as well as use of mobile terminals, is encouraged.

The meeting also stressed the importance of improving judicial regulations and policies so they can better serve all forms of economic ownership in the new era and offer judicial support to China's opening-up strategy.