The 4th amendments to the Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (《中华人民共和国民事诉讼法》) were passed at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of the People’s Republic of China on December 24, 2021 and came into effect on January 1, 2022.

The amendments consist of 7 new provisions and 26 amended provisions. The necessity of the amendments has been triggered mainly by the Pilot Reform of Civil Proceedings for the Separation of Complicated Cases from Simple Ones (民事诉讼程序繁简分流改革试点) which was decided by the NPC and became effective on December 28, 2019 and has been implemented by the Supreme People's Court of the PRC (SPC) since January 15, 2020.

13 terms were amended to be compatible with the Civil Code of the PRC (《中华人民共和国民法典》) effective on January 1, 2022. For example, "holidays" were changed to "statutory holidays" in the updated version of the Law.

Of note are the amendments to the five procedures in terms of judicial confirmation (司法确认) of mediation, small claims cases, single judge courts, online litigation, and starting dates of the applications for enforcement.

The full text of the Law is available here on the National Database of Laws and Statutes (国家法律法规数据库).