Online tools ease burden of lawsuits

60 percent of country's courts have set up platforms for improving services

More than 60 percent of Chinese courts have established online litigation filing platforms to ease procedures for initiating lawsuits and to improve efficiency, China's top court said on Tuesday.

A year after the Supreme People's Court issued a guideline urging all courts to set up their own platforms, 2,189 of the more than 3,500 Chinese courts have built litigation websites where litigants can make their appeals, consult judges and track their cases, according to a report released by the top court.