On the morning of Nov 16, 2018, President Ye Liudong, Chief Judge Ni Xuewei and judge assistant Tan Xuewen of Guangzhou Maritime Court (GZMC) went to Shanghai Maritime University(SMU) to make exchanges on cooperation matters. Several officials of SMU attended the symposium and the signing ceremony, they were Vice President Yan Wei, former Secretary of the Party Committee Yu Shicheng, Dean Wang Guohua and Secretary of the Party Committee Li Xiping and Office Director Shi Yu of School of Law, and the talks and the signing ceremony was hosted by Dean Wang Guohua.

In his welcome address, Vice President Yan Wei said that it has been a long cooperation history between GZMC and SMU, some graduates of SMU went to GZMC for the internship since the 1980s and 1990s. As the communication between both sides is being more and more deepen and frequent, he hopes that both parties can strengthen cooperation continually thence to promote the construction of international maritime judicial center.

In his speech, President Ye Liudong said that SMU has a long history and fruitful achievements in the teaching and research of Maritime Law, and hopes that with the joint efforts of both sides in the future cooperation, and they make contributions to the construction of marine power to their respective advantages in the areas of maritime authority and maritime institution of higher education.

President Ye and his team have visited the history museum of Law of School and moot courts of SMU before the talks and after that, they joined the brief signing and the award ceremony. President Ye and Vice President Yan co-signed the “GZMC and SMU Cooperation Framework Agreement” and “Cooperation Agreement on Practical Base Construction of School of Law of SMU”, and Vice President Yan issued the nameplate “Practical Base of School of Law of SMU” to President Ye.