At the Sixth Meeting of the 13th Session of the National People’s Congress in 2018, the Chinese legislature amended the Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the “Criminal Procedure Law”), in which the new trial system in absentia became one of the greatest highlights of this legislative reform. In default judgment system, People’s Procuratorate may institute public prosecution in a People’s Court for the corruption and bribery cases when they believes that the facts of the crime have been ascertained and the evidence is true enough to prove the criminal suspects or defendants are criminally responsible according to law, or when the cases are timely needed for trial, in which the defendants are approved by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of serious crimes against national security crimes, terrorist activities, criminal suspects, absconding outside the country. As mentioned above, the system of default judgement is a new institution in the Criminal Procedure Law, this paper analyzes its characteristics, positive influence and imperfect parts with the reference to the practice in foreign countries and discusses some problems in this new system with some suggestions for future improvement.