What is the procedure of service of judicial documents issued by foreign judicial authorities in China?
The procedure of service is as follows: A foreign Forwarding Party sends a request to the Ministry of Justice of China(MOJ), and the request should be in the Hague Forms of the Hague Service Convention—>the MOJ of China forwards the papers to the Supreme People’s Court of China(SPC) after a preliminary review of the request and judicial documents attached—-> the SPC of China reviews the request and, distributes them to a local court through provincial high courts and intermediate courts, —–>the local court arranges the service, then sends back the proof of service to the MOJ of China along the same route, backwards—–> the MOJ of China issues a formal certificate and sends it back to the foreign Forwarding Party