Cyberspace judicial efforts intimidate defaulters

An online blacklist and a series of restrictions have successfully forced millions of people to comply with court rulings they had previously ignored, and the measures are contributing to the country's credit system, an official at China's top court said.

"We've made efforts against defaulters in the past five years, not only to solve the difficulty of verdict implementation, which was often complained about in public, but also to improve the social credibility by rule of law," Meng Xiang, head of enforcement for the Supreme People's Court, said in an exclusive interview last week.

He said 2.8 million defaulters had obeyed court orders after feeling pressure from the online blacklist and inconveniences in their daily lives.