长期以来，我国极为重视且大力倡导法院调解，审判实务中的大多数民事、经济纠纷也是以调解结案的，法院调解已成为我国民事审判中最富有特色的制度。这一肇始于新民主主义革命时期，并在新中国成立后的数十年间不断得到巩固和强化的制度契合于改革开放前的中国社会实际，它与 For a long time, China attaches great importance to and vigorously advocates the mediation of the courts. Most civil and economic disputes in trial practice are also settled through mediation. Court mediation has become the most distinctive system in China’s civil trials. This system, which began in the period of the new-democratic revolution and was continuously consolidated and strengthened in the decades after the founding of New China, coincided with the pre-reform social reality in China.