China Supreme Court legalizes Part of Corporate Lending
(By You Yunting) China’s financial system is restricted regulated. Private corporate lending contracts, whereby an enterprise without qualified financial credit lends money to another enterprise is considered to be invalid, and China’s courts would order the lenders return the original amount of money without any interest. Recently, the President of Supreme People’s Court Xi Xiaoming delivered a speech at the National Civil and Commercial Adjudication Work Conference, indicating that the courts have recently begun to expand the validity of corporate lending and are attempting to legalize corporate lending contracts.