On November 30, 2019, the 2019 Annual Conference of the International Economic Law Research Association of China Law Society was held in Wenzhou. The conference was hosted by the International Economic Law Research Association of China Law Society, organized by the Law School of Wenzhou University, and co-organized by the International Dispute Prevention and Settlement Research Center of the Wenzhou University Law School and the “Belt and Road” Wenshang Court of International Arbitration.

Jiang Bixin, Vice President of the Supreme People’s Court and Deputy Chairman of the Chinese Law Society, Shen Sibao, Chairman of the International Economic Law Research Association of the Chinese Law Society, and Zhao Min, President of Wenzhou University, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Gao Xiaoli, Vice President of the Civil Adjudication Tribunal No.4 of the Supreme People's Court, Zhu Xinli, Vice President of the Higher People’s Court of Zhejiang Province, and Yu Fang, Director of the Second Division of the WTO’s Legal Division of Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce, attended the opening ceremony. More than 200 representatives from the law schools of Tsinghua University, Fudan University, University of International Business and Economics and other major universities across the country attended the conference.

 (Jiang Bixin, Vice President of the Supreme People’s Court delivered the opening speech)

(Shen Sibao, Chairman of the International Economic Law Research Association of the Chinese Law Society delivered the opening speech)

Wang Chengjie, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (“CIETAC”), attended the opening ceremony on invitation and made a keynote speech on “Promoting the development of China’s international dispute settlement mechanism and actively participating in the reform of the global governance.” Wang Chengjie pointed out that the international situation was full of changes and thus international economic law undertook a new mission. How to properly resolve disputes between subjects of different levels, and to establish and improve a just, reasonable and efficient dispute settlement mechanism was a practical issue calling for immediate solutions from international economic law society. He shared the practice of CIETAC as a front-line institution for international commercial dispute resolution in promoting the development of China’s international dispute settlement mechanism. He pointed out that CIETAC insisted on accurately understanding and properly applying international economic law to improve the credibility of arbitration, constantly developed innovative and diversified dispute resolution services to satisfy different needs for dispute settlement, extensively conducted international exchanges and cooperation and fully engaged in international arbitration affairs, made the best use of its advantages in resources and position, improve its function of providing public legal services, and made due contributions to the steady progress of constructing the “Belt and Road” and an internationalized, rule-of-law and convenient business environment in China.

(Wang Chengjie, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of CIETAC, delivered the keynote speech)

Yu Fang, Director of the Second Division of the WTO’s Legal Division of Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce, Gao Xiaoli, Vice President of the Civil Adjudication Tribunal No.4 of the Supreme People’s Court, Che Pizhao, Professor of the School of Law of Tsinghua University, Zhang Naigen, Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, and Lu Bin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Wenzhou City Bureau of Justice, delivered keynote speeches respectively, introducing and analyzing the latest changes in international trade rules, the innovation and development of China’s foreign-related civil and commercial trials, the updates of legal globalization, the intellectual property rights related to international investment and relevant dispute resolution, and the development of Wenzhou's “micro-arbitration in hand.”

The conference focused on the topic of "the great change in the international situation and the new mission of international economic law" proposed by the new era, discussing the issues of “the changes in international trade rules and China’s response” “the Belt and Road Initiative and frontier issues of international investment law” “international financial transactions and rules” and “prevention and settlement of international economic disputes.” The conference achieved fruitful results.

(Group photo of participants)