Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Procedure Law.
Article 2 The task of People's Republic of China (PRC)'s Civil Procedure Law is to protect the litigants from exercising their litigation rights, ensure that the people's courts find out the facts, distinguish right from wrong, correctly apply the law, hear civil cases in time, confirm the relationship between civil rights and obligations, punish civil violations, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the litigants, educate citizens to consciously abide by the law, maintain social and economic order, and ensure the smooth progress of socialist construction.
Article 3 The provisions of this Law shall apply to the people's courts in accepting civil lawsuits brought by citizens, legal persons, other organizations and among them because of property relations and personal relations.