On June 17th, 2022, The news conference “Maritime Trials of 2022 · Serving and Assuring the Construction of the Greater Bay area” was held in GZMC. The court published the white paper of maritime trials in 2021, typical cases of serving and assuring the building of the Greater Bay Area, ten enforcement cases in 2021 in Chinese, English and Portuguese. The goal of publishing white paper and introducing past cases in three language was to analyze the features of maritime and admiralty disputes, so that in the Greater Bay Area, the existing or potential problems of the shipping economy can be diagnosed and solved, while the ocean economy can develop in a sustainable way. This is the sixth time that GZMC published trilingual white paper in Chinese, English and Portuguese, while it’s the twelfth time that the court publish bilingual white paper in Chinese and English.

According to the vice president of GZMC, Sibin Liu, in 2021, GZMC accepted 4092 cases of various types (43.08% increase year-on-year), subject matter of action at a value of more than 8 billion CNY, and the amount of accepted cases was only slightly below the year 2019, which  was 4795. The amount of cases has almost recovered to the level before the pandemic. In recent years, due to the impact of environmental remediation for marine ecology, the amount of accepted administrative lawsuits had reached record high in 2021, and the cases had apparent characteristics of collectivity. In 2021, the amount of accepted administrative lawsuits of first instance was 271, and concluded case amount was 336. Both the accepted and concluded administrative cases had outnumbered past years. The proportion of foreign-related cases increased. The amount of accepted civil cases of first instance that related to foreign parties, or related to Hongkong, Macau or Taiwan was 747, which was 38.56% among all accepted civil cases of first instance. The foreign-related civil cases of first instance and concluded cases exceeded the total amount of accepted cases and concluded civil cases of first instance by one-third in quantity. In terms of enforcement, the conclusion and enforcement rate of property cases in statutory period was 98.18%, and the conformity rate was 100%; online judicial auction coverage rate reached 100%, and a total amount of 480 million of CNY had been fully paid in enforcement cases.