In 2025, the people's courts will fully perform their duties, interpret the original intention of safeguarding people's livelihoods through judicial protection, demonstrate their responsibility in serving development and security, consolidate and deepen reforms, and achieve more results. The construction of the iron army of the courts will be more complete. 2026 is the starting year of the 15th Five Year Plan, which is crucial for the overall situation and determines the future momentum. How to do a good job in judicial trial work in the new year? Recently, the National Conference of Supreme Court Presidents (hereinafter referred to as the Conference) was held to summarize the work of the courts in 2025 and deploy the work tasks for 2026. In 2026, the people's courts have a clear understanding and strong actions, consciously taking serving the overall situation and serving the people's judiciary as the starting point and foothold of their work, and putting more emphasis on resolving disputes into practice, striving to achieve judicial fairness, truly feel it, and receive praise. By 2025, the people's courts will fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of balancing leniency and severity, and always adhere to strict punishment according to law and maintain a high-pressure situation for crimes that seriously endanger social order. The number of criminal cases and serious violent crimes concluded will further decrease by 11.4% and 7.3%, respectively. The overall trend of criminal crimes is declining, with a decrease in serious crimes and an increase in general crimes. Criminal policies should be more targeted. ”The meeting analyzed the current crime situation and put forward requirements for implementing the criminal policy of balancing leniency and severity - crimes that seriously endanger national security and social stability, crimes that seriously challenge the legal and ethical bottom line, and prominent illegal crimes that are deeply hated by the people occur from time to time, causing great harm, and must always adhere to the strict hand without wavering. For common and frequent crimes with lighter statutory penalties, it is necessary to fully exert the power of policies, make good use of the distinction between leniency and severity to break down crimes, promote the reform of criminals, and achieve hierarchical governance. In recent years, new criminal methods have been constantly innovating and increasing in concealment, putting the trial work to the test. Enhance judicial response capabilities and effectively punish new types of crimes. ”The meeting mentioned that it is necessary to firmly grasp the essential characteristic of social harm, comprehensively consider illegality and appropriate punishment, reveal the subjective illegal purpose of the perpetrator, accurately grasp the objective harm of the behavior, and prudently convict and sentence according to law. We should grasp the criminal policy of balancing leniency and severity in punishing new types of crimes. ”The meeting pointed out that new types of crimes committed using network information technology, especially artificial intelligence, often have stronger concealment, deeper subjective malice, and greater social harm. Overall, they should be strictly enforced in accordance with the law to promote the realization of fairness and justice. The meeting emphasized the need to improve the two-way connection between administrative and criminal penalties, weave a dense legal network, make good use of institutional mechanisms such as clue transfer and judicial advice, and strengthen the legal and comprehensive governance of new crimes. By 2025, the people's courts will make every effort to safeguard the well-being of the people, interpreting their original intention with judicial guarantees for people's livelihoods, and continue to address the urgent needs and concerns of the masses such as high dowries, fake purchases, and "embezzlement of funds". Livelihood is no small matter, branches and leaves are always concerned. ”The meeting requires that the people's courts should implement the principle of "as if I am in litigation" and relieve the worries of the people. They should use strict and fair judicial protection to enhance people's well-being and help to secure the bottom line of people's livelihood. Cases involving employment, healthcare, education, elderly care, housing and other livelihood areas directly affect the vital interests of the people and directly affect the normal life of individuals and families. They should be good at using the rule of law to distinguish and stop disputes, uphold justice, and use bottom line thinking to protect basic rights and solve urgent and difficult problems. To improve the mechanism for handling livelihood cases in key areas, disputes arising from wage arrears, non delivery of housing after payment, medical accidents, high dowries, etc. should be promptly investigated, reviewed, judged, and enforced in accordance with the law. We should fully leverage the role of judicial assistance, increase the coordination and guarantee of assistance funds, promote the organic connection between judicial assistance and social assistance, and maximize the relief of difficulties and resolve conflicts. In recent years, there have been new situations and changes in livelihood cases. The meeting mentioned that it is necessary to conduct in-depth analysis, summarize experience, grasp laws, innovate mechanisms, and prescribe targeted solutions to the "legal" and "psychological" problems. The interests of workers and consumers are people's livelihood, and the interests of enterprises and operators are also people's livelihood. The meeting requires that judicial policies and specific cases be handled in a fair, just, and balanced manner in accordance with the law to protect the interests of all parties, unify the bottom line, ensure development, and promote win-win situations, and strive to achieve the best results. A reporter from the Legal Daily learned from the conference that by 2025, courts across the country will focus more on resolving disputes in order to achieve the ultimate spirit, and the amount of explanatory and reasoning texts in judicial documents will increase by 19.4% compared to five years ago. The meeting pointed out that it is important to remember that the people are the main subjects who feel fairness and justice, and evaluate judicial fairness. Judicial judgments should take into account national laws, natural principles, and human feelings. Interpreting laws and reasoning should make the parties and the public feel the spirit of the rule of law, moral guidance, and emotional resonance behind the judgments. Only then can there be no "temperature difference" or "color difference" between the fair judgments of judges and the fair feelings of the masses. By 2025, efforts will be made to promote economic development, and the bankruptcy trials of the people's courts will push 29000 "zombie enterprises" to be cleared in accordance with the law, and 1481 enterprises to be rescued and reborn. In the handling of cases, the total amount of executed cases for the whole year was 2.16 trillion yuan, and the people's sense of judicial gain continued to improve. How to better leverage the leading, regulating, and safeguarding role of the rule of law in the process of building a rule of law economy and a credit economy? The meeting emphasized the need to regulate market order and ensure the flow of factors. It is necessary to comprehensively utilize the functions of criminal, civil, and administrative trials to punish behaviors that disrupt market order, disrupt market expectations, and maliciously evade debts in accordance with the law. Those who violate the principle of good faith and market rules should pay the appropriate price, and typical cases should be used to explain and warn, demonstrating the rigidity and authority of the rule of law. Promote the organic connection between judicial judgment execution and bankruptcy system, promote the comprehensive connection between execution and bankruptcy in terms of concept, resources, and mechanism, and effectively use execution to assist bankruptcy and bankruptcy to promote execution. Release the synergistic effect of execution and bankruptcy system, achieve the goal of "moving out and breaking down quickly" for zombie enterprises, and "treating and rescuing vulnerable enterprises early", and maximize the optimization of market resource allocation through market-oriented and legal means. We should take stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations as important starting points and foothold for the implementation of the transition, coordinate the promotion of "clearing" and "restructuring", coordinate the protection of "individual creditors" and "fair compensation", and ensure the organic unity of political, legal, social, and market effects. Continuously deepen the comprehensive governance of the problem of "difficult enforcement", strictly regulate enforcement, make full use of the compulsory enforcement system and measures, and strive to realize the right to win the lawsuit; Comprehensively promote the effective implementation of cross execution, with a focus on "bone cases", "petition cases", "difficult cases" that have not been executed for many years; Adhere to the precise classification and application of dishonesty punishment and credit repair, standardize the clearance of height restrictions and credit repair work, and promote the active fulfillment of obligations by the executed person; Continuously deepen the implementation of the coordination mechanism for legislative review and execution, and further improve the implementation work by focusing on the front-end, preventing diseases, and controlling increments. By 2025, intellectual property contract disputes, ownership disputes, and infringement disputes will increase by 30.4% and 3.7% respectively. This is not only a reflection of the high level of technological innovation activity in our country, but also a reflection of higher judicial demand. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to implement science and technology and industrial policies, increase the judicial protection of intellectual property rights, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation - and establish a clear orientation of legal protection, strict protection, and efficient protection. We must regulate false litigation, malicious litigation, and abuse of litigation rights in accordance with the law, implement the minutes of the symposium on the trial of intellectual property batch cases, and focus on maintaining innovation order. We need to establish a judicial orientation that encourages innovation and creativity, promotes the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. For lawsuits arising from cooperative research and development, talent mobility, etc., we should aim to effectively resolve disputes, promote the transformation and application of innovative achievements, and achieve a win-win situation. We should organically combine mediation, promote cooperation and automatic performance, and encourage various entities to operate in accordance with the law. We need to conduct in-depth research on the judicial path of protecting rights and regulating behavior in emerging fields such as digital economy and "artificial intelligence+", and coordinate the promotion of development and regulation. The horn sounded, inspiring and advancing. In 2026, the people's courts will better fulfill their important functions of punishing crimes, protecting the people, resolving disputes, and maintaining fairness, providing higher-level judicial services and guarantees for achieving a good start to the 15th Five Year Plan. (New Society)