The Five-Year Plan for Information Construction at People's Courts (2016—2020), adopted by the Supreme People’s Court in February 2016, provides for specific requirements on the construction of Version 3.0 of the People’s Courts Informatization System in China. According to the plan, people’s courts throughout the country must complete a total of 55 tasks of informationization construction, which are divided into four main categories, within the five-year period. In recent years, in order to objectively reflect the actual situation of the implementation of the Plan and systematically summarize the experiences gained and problems encountered in this process, the CASS Center for the Study of National Indices of the Rule of Law and the Innovation Project Team on Indices of the Rule of Law of CASS Law Institute have carried out investigation on the construction of the people’s court informatization system in the whole country and in 2016 assessed the work of construction of version 3.0 of People’s Court Informatization System by people’s courts in Shandong Province from the perspectives of the effect of application, servicing the public, servicing the execution of court judgments, and servicing court administration. Recently the results of the assessment, a book entitled Assessment Report on the Construction and Application of Version 3.0 of the People’s Court Informatization System (V3.0): from the Perspective of Informatization of Courts in Shandong Province, was published by China Social Sciences Press as part of the National Think Tank book series.