'Naming and shaming' forces defaulters to honor rulings

Measures to compel guilty parties to comply with verdicts are making their mark. Cao Yin reports.

Judge Wang Xiangjie could barely contain his excitement last week when a debtor who had defied a repayment order made by Wang's court six months ago finally paid the 400,000 yuan ($60,000) he owed.

However, the defaulter only agreed to pay his debt after being refused tickets for a flight from Kunming, Yunnan province, to Beijing. The travel agency refused to sell the man the tickets because Wang had imposed a nationwide ban that prevented him from purchasing luxury goods such as air travel or high-speed rail services.