According to the WeChat official account of the Supreme People's Court, on May 25, 2022, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Opinions of the Supreme People's Court on Strengthening the Judicial Application of Blockchain" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"). This is a specific measure taken by the people's court to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law and implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on promoting the innovation and development of blockchain technology. It will further promote the use of key technologies represented by blockchain to accelerate the digital transformation of the people's court, Create a higher level of digital justice, promote the deep integration and development of the rule of law and technology, and promote the construction of smart rule of law to a higher level.
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to the application and development of blockchain technology. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that the blockchain should be used as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, accelerate the development of blockchain technology and industrial innovation, and actively promote the integration and development of blockchain and economic society. In recent years, the people's courts have vigorously promoted the application of blockchain technology in the judicial field, and built a judicial blockchain platform for the people's courts. More than 2.2 billion pieces of evidence have been stored on the judicial blockchain, and it has been applied in the fields of evidence storage, intelligent assistance, and file management. Efficiency and standardization continue to improve, and application scenarios such as electronic evidence and electronic delivery deposit verification anti-tampering have achieved results.
In order to further strengthen the application of blockchain in the judicial field, and give full play to the role of blockchain in promoting judicial credibility, serving social governance, preventing and defusing risks, and promoting high-quality development, the Supreme People's Court conducted full research, extensively solicited opinions, and multi-party On the basis of the demonstration, the "Opinions" were formulated and issued. The "Opinion" includes seven parts and 32 items, clarifying the general requirements for the people's courts to strengthen the judicial application of blockchain and the construction requirements of the people's court blockchain platform, and proposes that blockchain technology can improve judicial credibility, improve judicial efficiency, and enhance judicial coordination. The application direction of typical scenarios in four aspects, such as serving economic and social governance, clarifies the safeguard measures for blockchain application. The Opinions have the following salient features:
The first is to propose the establishment of an interoperable and shared judicial blockchain alliance. The "Opinion" proposes that by 2025, a blockchain alliance that will be shared between the people's courts and all walks of life will be established, and the basic support capabilities such as data verification, trusted operations, smart contracts, and cross-chain collaboration will be greatly improved, and the judicial blockchain will be cross-chain. The alliance integrates into the economic and social operating system, actively serves business environment optimization, economic and social governance, risk prevention and resolution, and industrial innovation and development, and serves the construction of a safe China, rule of law, digital China and honest China, forming a world-leading blockchain with Chinese characteristics Applied models in the judicial field.
The second is to clarify the requirements for the construction of the people's court blockchain platform. The "Opinions" clearly require the people's courts to strengthen the top-level design of blockchain applications, continue to promote the construction of cross-chain collaborative application capabilities, improve the technical capabilities of judicial blockchains, build an Internet judicial blockchain verification platform, and establish a sound standard specification system. The "Opinions" proposes to build an open and shared judicial blockchain platform for national courts, strengthen the construction of cross-chain alliances between the judicial blockchain platform and blockchain platforms in various industries, and continuously improve the synergy; it is necessary to build judicial blockchain verification on the Internet The platform supports parties and other relevant subjects to verify the authenticity of mediation data, electronic evidence, litigation documents and other judicial data.
The third is to propose the use of blockchain data tamper-proof technology to enhance judicial credibility. The "Opinions" proposed to promote the on-chain storage of judicial data such as electronic files, electronic files, and judicial statistical reports of the people's courts, promote the on-chain storage of data and operations such as enforcement cases, and promote the delivery of litigation documents and service receipts served by the people's courts in judicial districts. The unified storage of the block chain platform ensures the security of judicial data and operational compliance. The "Opinions" clarify and improve the evidence verification function of the blockchain platform, support parties and judges to verify electronic evidence stored in the blockchain online, promote the improvement of standards and rules for blockchain storage, and improve the efficiency and quality of electronic evidence identification.
The fourth is to propose the application of blockchain to optimize business processes and improve judicial efficiency. The "Opinions" propose five typical application scenarios, including supporting the application of case filing information transfer, the application of mediation and trial process connection, the connection and linkage between trial and execution process, improving the efficiency of execution, and supporting the convenient handling of cases by enforcement officers and police, so as to improve the automation level of business processes and improve judicial efficiency. The "Opinions" proposed to establish the establishment of business rules and smart contract procedures such as trial filing and execution of case filing automatically if the mediation agreement is not performed, to enhance the judicial authority of the mediation process, and to support multiple dispute resolution.
The fifth is to propose the application of blockchain interoperability to promote judicial coordination. The "Opinions" proposed to build a cross-chain collaborative application between the people's court and the judicial administrative department to support the online inquiry and verification of the qualifications and credit reports of lawyers participating in litigation activities, and improve the real-time verification; it proposed to build the people's court and the procuratorate, public security, judicial administration and other departments The cross-chain collaborative application can improve the efficiency of case online circulation and the level of data mutual trust; build the cross-chain collaborative application between the people's court and administrative law enforcement, real estate registration, financial securities insurance institutions, joint credit punishment and other units, and establish automatic execution investigation and credit punishment mode to improve the efficiency of collaborative execution.
The sixth is to propose the use of blockchain alliance mutual trust to serve economic and social governance. The "Opinions" propose to promote the construction of a cross-chain collaborative application mechanism with blockchain platforms such as intellectual property rights, market supervision, property rights registration, trading platforms, data ownership, data transactions, financial institutions, and relevant government departments to support intellectual property protection and business operations. Environment optimization, data development and utilization, financial information circulation and application, corporate bankruptcy and reorganization, credit investigation system construction, etc.
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