On December 28, 2025, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued its 2024 annual report on judicial review of commercial arbitration.   I am attaching the report in both PDF and its original Word format to enable readers outside to download the report easily.  The report includes 16 typical cases (典型案例). This report is Chinese only, and an English version is likely to be forthcoming.

The Chinese courts accepted 19422  judicial review of arbitration cases in 2024,  the vast majority of which were domestic.  Only 121 of those cases involved awards from outside China.  Most of those cases were applications to set aside arbitral awards (11576) ,  5768 cases were applications to confirm the validity of an arbitration agreement.

The number of cases reported to the SPC under its prior reporting system was 28, while 2023 was 29.  Of that number, three were Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan awards, while two were foreign awards.

For anyone interested in the role of the SPC in legislation (as I wrote about in my article on how the SPC supports the development of foreign-related rule of law (long/short version), the report mentions that in 2024, the SPC was deeply involved in the work to amend the Arbitration Law (2024年，最高人民法院深度参与《中华人民共和国仲裁法》（以下简称《仲裁法》）立法修订工作).

There is a great deal of interesting information for practitioners and academics, but competing obligations do not permit me to analyze the report in detail at this point.