The Intermediate People's Court is a municipal people's court divided into districts. People's courts include basic people's courts, intermediate people's courts, higher people's courts and the Supreme People's Court. Intermediate people's courts are located in prefecture-level administrative regions except the people's courts of Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. China has a four-tier court system, while the Supreme People's Court has six circuit courts at the national level.

Legal objectivity:

Article 23 of the Organic Law of the People's Courts of People's Republic of China (PRC) tries the following cases: (1) Jurisdicting cases of first instance according to law; (2) Cases of first instance submitted to the basic people's court for trial; (3) Cases of first instance under the jurisdiction designated by the people's court at a higher level; (4) Cases of appeal or protest against the judgment or ruling of the basic people's court; (5) retrial cases filed in accordance with the procedure of trial supervision.