Court verdict defaulters barred from 14.63m flights

People who failed to comply with court rulings had been prevented from taking 14.63 million flights and 5.22 million rail journeys as of September, a report by China's top court said.

The report, detailing how Chinese courts implement verdicts and deal with defaulters, was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, on Wednesday.

In 2013, the Supreme People's Court started disclosing information about defaulters online to urge them to quickly comply with court rulings. By September, details of 12.11 million violations of court orders had been posted online, the report said.

The top court has also cooperated with government authorities since 2016 to strengthen efforts to improve verdict implementation by imposing bans on defaulters, such as barring them from buying flight and railway tickets and preventing them from being executives of companies, it said.

Under such pressure, 3.22 million defaulters have complied with verdicts, it added.

To increase the efficiency of ruling enforcement, the top court set up an online platform with more than 3,900 banks and financial institutions nationwide, "which can help us search for 16 kinds of defaulters' property, including their savings, securities holdings and real estate," Zhou Qiang, the court's president, said.

When explaining the report to the legislature, he also noted the information-sharing platform needs to be upgraded, with courts across the country to further simplify the steps involved in searches.