On May 24^th, 2018, the annual symposium of  “the Belt and Road” judicial research center of the Supreme People’s Court was held at Institute of Law of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Zhang Yongjian, director of Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.4 of the Supreme People’s Court, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. Chen Su, director of Institute of Law of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the welcome address. Ni Xuewei, judge of Guangzhou Maritime Court, was invited to attend the meeting.

Wang Shumei, vice director of Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.4 of the Supreme People’s Court, hosted the meeting and presented the above-mentioned tribunal’s main work in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, the Tribunal will conduct a specific investigation on abitration-related judicial review, strengthen the construciton of the three bases in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and publish maritime trial white paper of the last three years, including ten representative maritime cases in 2017. Also, the Tribunal will hold the fifth national maritime trial work conference and publish ten maritime trial guiding cases, which plays an active role in the ongoing “Maritime Commercial Law” amendment.

Nineteen bases under the administrationthe Tribunal reported  their last year’s work and this year’s arrangements.

Judege Ni Xuewei reported the main work of Guangzhou International Maritime Judicial Base of the Supreme People's Court from May 12^th 2017,the foundation date of the Base, till the end of 2017,  Firstly, the Base actively won the support of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, People’s Government of Guangdong Province and Higher People’s Court of Guangdong Province to finish the design and decoration on the tenth floor and eleventh floor of the rooftop in its new trial building, which was completedin March, 2018. Secondly, to positively answered the call of the national strategy of  Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area construction, ittook the lead in publishing maritime trial white paper in Chinese, English and Portuguese. Thirdly, itcompleted the special research report on “The Law and Judicial Response to International Famous Shipping Companies’ Cross Border Insolvency ”, which was an action to the new situation in the field of maritime trial.

On Mar27^th, 2018,president Zhouqiangannounced the opening of the base officially.  The point of this year’s work is to set up an expert committee whose members are leading experts in maritime commercial law bothat home and overseas, to guide the Base’s work.We will hold an international maritime law high-end seminar with maritime commercial law experts from China, Japan and Korea as well as maritime scholars, maritime judges, maritime arbitrators and maritime lawyers at home and overseas. China Maritime Trial will revised, including the base as one of the publishers.

In his remarks, Dirctor Zhang Yongjian said that this was the third conference convened by the Tribunal. Last year, 19 bases carried out various activities, submitted fruitful researches; therefore promoted the construction of the international maritime judicial center. In the future, the bases should take“the Belt and Road Initiative”, the construction of free trade zone Yangtze River Economic Belt and maritime ecological protection as the center to practice judicial trial, conduct prospective, targeted and reserved researches, publish high-level papers, promote trial theoretical innovation and make achievements on the trial of cases involving foreign-related commercial and maritime affairs.