The 6th Forum of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District Opens in Xiamen
Zhao Long Attends and Delivers a Speech
On September 7, the 6th Forum of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District, themed “Innovating Legal Services, Building a Legal Hub – Empowering High-Quality Development of the Maritime Silk Road through High-Standard Legal District Construction,” opened in Xiamen. Fujian Governor Zhao Long attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Yang Chunlei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission; Wang Hongxiang, Party Secretary of the China Law Society; Mao Zhonghua, Vice President of the Supreme People’s Court; Du Xueyi, Deputy Ministerial-level Full-time Member of the Procuratorial Committee of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice; Liu Jiannan, Vice Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade; and relevant officials from the Ministry of Public Security attended and delivered speeches. Shi Haoyong, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Head of the Leading Group for the Construction Work of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District, presided over the forum. Provincial leaders Wang Yongli, Tan Yunkun, Huang Haikun, and Hou Jianjun, Procurator-General of the Provincial People’s Procuratorate, also attended the event.
On behalf of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and the Provincial People’s Government, Zhao Long extended a warm welcome to the guests attending the forum. He noted that Fujian is an important birthplace and practice base for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and is also the core area of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. In recent years, the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District has achieved remarkable results in institutional innovation, rule innovation, the integration of law and business, and the concentration of legal and legal-services resources. It has become a landmark project for building the core area of the Maritime Silk Road, providing strong legal guarantees for the high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road.”
Zhao Long said that Fujian will further study, implement, and carry out Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, continue to innovate legal services, and speed up the building of a legal hub, so as to empower the high-quality development of the core area of the Maritime Silk Road through the construction of a high-standard legal service district and help shape a community with a shared future for mankind. The province will focus on promoting reform and innovation by introducing more reform achievements in the legal field, enriching diversified dispute resolution paths, and accelerating the development of a preferred destination for international commercial and maritime dispute resolution. It will focus on optimizing legal services by speeding up the cultivation of internationally top-tier legal-service institutions, improving one-stop, full-chain law-business integrated services, and continuously enhancing the legal service ecosystem. It will also focus on promoting cooperation and sharing by actively carrying out cooperation among lawyers, arbitration, and commercial mediation, and achieving more practical results in areas such as law-enforcement coordination, judicial assistance, and dispute resolution. Furthermore, it will focus on strengthening talent cultivation by expanding the team of high-level, application-oriented, and compound professionals specializing in foreign-related rule-of-law work, injecting strong intellectual support into the construction of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District.
During the forum, Zhao Long and the attending guests jointly launched key projects, including the “China Law Society Rule-of-Law Research Base – Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District’s Research Center on Taiwan-related Legal Affairs” and the “‘Belt and Road’ International Legal Services Association and the ‘Action Plan for International Exchange and Cooperation in Legal Services’ by the Leading Group Office for the Construction Work of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services District.”
Representatives from relevant central and national government departments, legal experts and scholars from home and abroad, and representatives from law enforcement and judicial departments, legal institutions, and enterprises attended the event.
