The 27th national maritime trial seminar successfully held at the 3rd-floor meeting hall in the new trial building of GZMC on July 12, 2019. About 110 peoples of leaders, research office directors, paper authors from ten maritime courts, chief judges and judge representatives from Superior People’s Courts and special speakers attended the meeting. Member of the Party Leadership and Vice President Luo Dongchuan, Director Wang Shumei and the judge team of Civil Adjudication Tribunal NO.4 of the Supreme People’s Court presented and Luo made a speech for it.

Luo pointed out that maritime trial theoretical research is the basis of judicial service for maritime power strategy, the important measures to improve the maritime legal system, the key to enhancing maritime judicial capacity and the window to demonstrate China maritime judicial image. And it should stir into the right political direction, by providing theoretical support for the improvement of relevant legislation and unified judicial adjudication criterion for promoting the maritime trial system and modernization of trial ability.

He requested that the current and the future period of time, maritime trial should focus on meeting the priority tasks of the Party and the government and take into consideration both the domestic and the international situations, by deepening the implementation of maritime trial high-quality strategy and make steady headway in the construction of international maritime judicial center as a crucial step, to improve the level of it in perspective in serve the overall interests, high-quality in case handling, systematic in system construction, informatization in litigation service and specialization in team construction, thence provide a strong justice service guarantee for the Belt and Road Initiative and other implementation of major decisions and arrangements of the state and the Party.

The theme of this meeting is to carry out the important spirit of the speeches in maritime trial made by President Zhou Qiang and Vice President Luo Dongchuan, research the measures of maritime judicial service for the Belt and Road, Yangtze R    iver Economic Zone, free trade zone and the Greater Bay area, discuss the amendment of Special Maritime Procedure Law, electronic evidence in maritime trial and other issues in trial practice and exchange maritime trial experiences.Twelve winning paper authors made presentations around the theme, and specialists gave their incisive comment to it. Presidents of maritime courts made exchanges in maritime judicial service in national strategy during the president parallel forum. Some chief judges and senior judges also made thorough discussions in voyage charter party, actual carrier, the port operator and multimodal transport contract.

There were 96 papers submitted to the seminar and 29 of them were from GZMC, which had a rich harvest in the amount and awards. Judge Xu Chunlong made a speech in the meeting.