中国2020年初推行的民事诉讼程序繁简分流改革在15个省(区、市)20个城市的中级人民法院和基层人民法院进行为期两年的试点后顺利结束。此次改革成果以修正≪中华人民共和国民事诉讼法≫(下文简称 ≪民事诉讼法≫) ≪最高人民法院关于适用<中华人民共和国民事诉讼法>的解释≫(下文简称 ≪民诉法解释≫)等法规范的方式得以巩固, 并深刻地影响了中国的民事程序制度与司法实践。本文将对此次改革的背景、内容予以介绍、评价。

The reform of separating traditional civil procedure process and simplified civil procedure process in China, which was implemented in early 2020, has been successfully completed after a two-year pilot program in the intermediate people’s courts and basic people’s courts of 15 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) and 20 cities. The result of this revision is to integrate and revise the legal and normative methods of the Civil Procedure Act of the People’s Republic of China and the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on the Application of the Civil Procedure Act of the People’s Republic of China, which has had a profound impact on China’s civil procedure system and judicial practice. This paper introduces and evaluates the background and content of this reform.