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China judge: Courts must maintain social stability
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BEIJING - China's top judge urged courts to focus on maintaining social stability to deal with the fallout from the global economic slowdown, state media said Saturday.
With rising unemployment stemming from the global financial turmoil, fears of social unrest in China are increasing, especially as migrant workers laid off from factories return home.
The judiciary should position itself to deal with disputes likely to arise from the crisis, the official China Daily newspaper quoted Wang Shengjun, the head of the Supreme People's Court, as saying.
"The most urgent task is to resolve economic, civil and administrative disputes caused by the financial crisis," Wang, who was appointed in March, told the court's annual conference.
Most protests in China sprout from the failure of local courts to deal with land seizures, layoffs and local corruption. The court will closely monitor labor disputes, corporate bankruptcies and breaches of contracts, Wang said.
The Supreme People's Court will "actively provide sound judicial security and judicial services for maintaining the nation's smooth and relatively fast economic development," said Wang.
Chen Quansheng, a State Council adviser, was quoted by the China Daily as saying unemployment was likely higher than the official figure of 8.3 million, as this only represented urban-registered jobs.
About 6.7 million jobs have disappeared in Guangdong province _ the country's main manufacturing hub _ after 670,000 small firms closed, the paper quoted him as saying.
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