The Intermediate People’s Court has jurisdiction over first-instance criminal cases including:

First, cases endangering national security and terrorist activities;

Second, possible life sentences Ordinary criminal cases with imprisonment and death penalty.

The first-instance civil cases under the jurisdiction of the intermediate courts include: major foreign-related cases; secondly, cases that have a major impact in the jurisdiction.

In addition, it also has jurisdiction over: first-instance cases stipulated by laws and regulations;

Secondly, first-instance cases transferred to the basic people's courts for trial;

The third is cases of appeal and protest against the judgments and rulings of basic people's courts;

The fourth is cases of protest filed by the People's Procuratorate in accordance with trial supervision procedures.

The difference between the lower court and the intermediate court: the lower court can only try cases of first instance, while the intermediate court can try cases of first and second instance. The second instance is the final trial. It can also change the judgment of the lower court or remand for retrial, or it can It accepts appeal cases for retrial, and its daily work is the business leading agency of the lower court.

1. Basic-level courts: General civil cases are under the jurisdiction of basic-level courts.

2. Intermediate People’s Court.

First, major foreign-related cases (including cases involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). The so-called foreign-related cases refer to civil cases with foreign factors

For example, the plaintiff or defendant is a foreigner, and the property involved is in a foreign country. The so-called major foreign-related cases refer to foreign-related cases in which the subject matter of the dispute is large, the case is complex, or there are a large number of parties living abroad or the parties have multiple nationalities.

Second, cases that have a major impact in this jurisdiction. The so-called cases with significant impact in this jurisdiction generally refer to cases that have significant political or economic impact. Cases that have a major political impact mainly refer to the parties to the litigation or the subject matter of the litigation and the people or things involved in the subject matter that have a major political impact. For example, the parties are from the party, government, or military circles. VIPs or National People’s Congress representatives, etc. Cases that have a significant economic impact mainly refer to cases where the amount of the subject of litigation is relatively large and the legal relationship in dispute involves the implementation of national economic policies.

Third, the Supreme People’s Court determines the cases to be under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate People’s Court. At present, such cases mainly include maritime and commercial cases, patent dispute cases, and trademark infringement cases. Maritime and commercial cases can only be under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Court (the Maritime Court is at the same level as the ordinary Intermediate Court), and other courts cannot have jurisdiction; patent dispute cases can only be under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate People's Court where the provincial government is located

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As well as the Intermediate People's Courts of Qingdao, Dalian and various special economic zones, other courts have no jurisdiction.