National Judicial Examination
III. Implementing the Policy of Relaxing the Prescribed Requirements
Since the establishment and implementation of the National Judicial Examination system, the MOJ in consultation with the SPC and the SPP, considering the imbalanced economic and social development and the practical construction of legal professional team in China, has issued a series of policies and measures such as relaxing signing up requirement for educational degree and lowering the pass score in order to supplementing judicial staff for the central and western regions and ethnic minority areas in China. These policy measures have yielded positive results. After several adjustments, and as of 2016, 1,409 counties have implemented the policy of relaxing signing up requirement for educational degree, accounting for nearly 50% of the all counties. 10 provinces (and autonomous regions) including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang were implemented the relaxing policy in a comprehensive and all-round way.
Besides, the policy of lowering the pass score is also implemented. While expanding the regions for relaxing signing up requirement of educational degree, the policy of admitting examinees in those regions has also been adjusted which allowed such persons to enjoy a lowering of the pass score. Examinees covered by this policy are allowed to use the languages of their own minority ethnic groups in the Examination. For the convenience of examinees from minority ethnic groups, the National Judicial Examination paper has been printed in several ethnic minority languages, including Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur, Kazak, and Korean since 2003.Since 2006, the National Judicial Examination Outline has been translated into Uighur, Kazak, and Mongolian, and the pass score of examinees from minority ethnic groups has been determined separately. The aforementioned measures have provided a batch of bilingual law talents for minority ethnic regions, effectively alleviating the shortage of legal professionals in the central and western regions.
