Courts told to enforce judgments

Restrictions tightened on debtors' spending; many can afford to pay restitution, official says

Chinese courts must improve their handling of financial defaults and individual debtors in the face of a skyrocketing case load over the past three years, an official of the top court said on Wednesday.

The number of cases in which defendants refused to execute verdicts increased from 3.4 million in 2013 to 4.8 million in 2015.