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Urban-rural gap in personal injury compensation closed
(from english.court.gov.cn)
Personal
injury compensation for rural victims will be the same as that for
their urban counterparts, according to a decision released by the
Supreme People's Court (SPC) on April 27 to revise the judicial
interpretation on several issues concerning the application of law
in trials of personal injury compensation cases. Disability
compensation, death compensation and the living expenses of the
dependents will be calculated by the standard of urban residents
instead of two differentiated compensation standards in urban and
rural areas, the decision said, which took effect on May 1. The SPC
authorized higher people's courts around the country in 2019 to
pilot unified compensation standards for personal injuries for both
urban and rural victims and started revising the judicial
interpretation based on the pilot practices. In February 2022, the
SPC passed the decision to revise six articles in the
interpretation. According to the revised interpretation, the
compensation standards for disability, death and living expenses of
the dependents will be based on the per capita disposable income and
consumption expenditure of urban residents, instead of two different
indexes for urban and rural areas. The unified standard can better
protect the legitimate rights and interests of urban and rural
residents. "Especially for those victims from rural areas, the
compensation amount will witness a major increase", said Zheng
Xuelin, presiding judge of the first civil tribunal of the SPC. This
move also conforms with the urbanization trend in China where the
proportion of urban population is increasing, he added.
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