The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court may have reduced the number of steps at one of its entryways and positioned a pair of stone lions at its west gate, but this does not necessarily reflect the influence of fengshui experts, a senior official from the court said.

Li Rujian, director of the court's information office, was responding to reports that the court had sought the advice of fengshui experts for a reconstruction project.

"(The report) is nonsense and a malicious slander to a people's court," he said.