Judicial assessment industry faces major shakeup

An assessor checks the validity of company seals at a center in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. [Photo by Wang Chengbing / For China Daily]

The ministry said that in addition to clamping down on high fees, it has prioritized improvements in the quality of work carried out by third-party appraisal institutes.

By the end of last year, 4,872 institutes and 54,198 assessors - who provide verification of materials related to medical checks, documents, voice traces and environmental damage - had registered with the ministry.