Pressure builds for court losers to obey verdicts

The problem of enforcing court rulings resulting from lawsuits - the top public complaint following litigation - has been eased to a large degree after various measures designed by China's top court over four years were put in place.

The latest statistics released by the Supreme People's Court on Tuesday show that more than 9.59 million case outcomes in which people did not comply with rulings had been made public by the end of 2017. Released in the online disclosures is information about the defaulters, including their names and identity card numbers.

The "blacklist" is considered one tool to improve the country's credit system, established in 2013. It tries to pressure defaulters into compliance, and by December 2016 more than 580,000 had followed court verdicts, according to Legal Daily.