Deng Xiuming, deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), called for more efforts to modernize trial work and draw more attention to urgent problems that have hindered the high-quality growth of trial work. 

Deng made those remarks while attending the closing session of the national seminar for grand justices, which was held at the National Judges College in Beijing on July 14. 

In his speech, Deng underscored the importance of the seminar, which was held in the first year to implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and amid the Party-wide education campaign. 

He urged courts at all levels to increase exchanges and learn from each other through seminars and to contribute their wisdom to Chinese modernization through modernizing trial work. 

Deng stressed the importance of strengthening the Party's political foundations at courts, better performing the courts’ adjudicatory function while focusing on the bigger picture of the Party and the nation, ensuring "every complaint letter receives a reply", and solving urgent problems in enforcement. 

He also called for more support for courts in remote rural areas, old revolutionary base areas, and ethnic minority areas at the meeting. 

Some grand justices and officials from the SPC's judicial departments exchanged views on such issues as the guidance to courts at lower levels, performance assessments and evaluation mechanisms for judges, and the better governance of litigation at the source. 

Zhang Jun, SPC president and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group, also attended the closing session of the seminar.