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China's Supreme People's Court has announced that by 2020, all courts in China's ethnic minority areas will be staffed with judges capable of using both Mandarin and local ethnic languages.

The Supreme People's Court and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission have jointly issued a circular on improving the education and training of bilingual judges for ethnic minority areas. They have pledged to train at least 1,500 bilingual judges as by 2020.

The authorities will work to ensure that every court in such areas has no fewer than four judges with bilingual competence and legal expertise.

China has 56 ethnic groups, and citizens of all ethnic groups have statutory right to use their own ethnic language in litigations according to the Constitution and law.