On the morning of May 26^th , 2018, the inaugural meeting of Shipping Law Research Society of Guangdong Province Law Society, Guangzhou Shipping Law Research Society and Shipping Law Research Society of Guangzhou Law Society, and shipping law seminar were sucessfully held in the international hall of South Normal University.

Leaders including Liang Debiao, Vice Chairman of Guangzhou Law Society, Tan Xiaohong, Vice President of Guangzhou Social Sciences Association, Xu Muquan, Vice Inspector of the Politics and Law Committee of Guangzhou Municipal Committee and Vice Chairman of Guangzhou Law Society, Yang Xiaosheng, Secretary of School of Law of South Normal University and over 100 peoples including judges, lawyers, arbitrators and collegiate scholars from Guangdong or other provinces attended the convention. Guangzhou Maritime Judges Association co-organized the convention and Secretary General Ni Xuewei attended the full convention.

The establishment of Shipping Law Research Society of Guangdong Province Law Society, Guangzhou Shipping Law Research Society and Shipping Law Research Society of Guangzhou Law Society will provide strong theoretical and academic support for the construction of Guangzhou Free Trade Port, building Guangzhou into an international shipping center as well as better playing the lead role in building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into the world-class major shipping hub. The purposes of these three research societies is to keep a foothold in Guangzhou and radiate its influence across South China, link with home and abroad so as to better serve the overall situation of reform and opening up and the construciton of rule of law in China.

At the following seminar, Chu Beiping, leader of Maritime Commercial Law amendment research group of Ministry of Transport and Dean of Law School of Dalian Martime University, made a lively speech on the background, thoughts, key points of Maritime Commercial Law amendment. Ni Xuewei, Secretary General of Guangzhou Maritime Judges Association started with the hot issues on maritime trial at present in his speech. He introduced the train of thought in trial and diffculties in cases involving releasing goods without bill of lading, ship collision, oil pollution at sea, arrest and auction of ships. Feng Suijiang, Member of Standing Committee of Guangzhou Nansha People’s Political Consultative Conference,gave opinions on the experiences in the construction of foreign free trade ports and the strengths and weakness of Guangzhou in the construction of free trade port. He also discuss the consrtuction path of Nansha Free Trade Port comprehensively.