1. If the judgment has entered into force before January 1, 2013, the retrial period of 2 years applies. If it is effective after January 1, 2013, then the retrial period is 6 months. After the retrial period the party will not be able to apply for retrial, but can go to a higher court or higher prosecutor's office petition department to reflect the situation, if the case there is a judgment error, you can start the trial supervision procedures.

2. Article 205 of the Civil Procedure Law

The application for retrial shall be filed within six months after the judgment or ruling has become legally effective; if there are circumstances stipulated in the provisions of the first, third, twelfth, or thirteenth subparagraphs of Article 200 of this Law, the application shall be filed within six months from the date of the person who knows or should have known about it.

Article 198 If the presidents of the people's courts at all levels find errors in the judgments, rulings, or conciliations of the courts that have become legally effective, and believe that they need to be retried, they shall submit them to the trial committee for discussion and decision.

The Supreme People's Court shall have the right to bring to trial or direct the people's courts at lower levels to retry judgments, rulings and conciliations of the local people's courts at various levels that have become legally effective, and the higher people's courts shall have the right to bring to trial or direct the lower people's courts to retry judgments, rulings and conciliations of the lower people's courts if they find that there is a genuine error in them.

Article 209 In any of the following cases, the party concerned may apply to the people's procuratorate for a procuratorial recommendation or a counter-suit:

(1) the people's court rejects the application for a retrial;

(2) the people's court fails to decide on the application for a retrial after the expiration of a period of time;

(3) the judgment or ruling of the retrial contains obvious errors.