On April 28th, the Huaihua Office of Hunan Mediation Center of the China Council for Promotion of International Trade was officially established and a memorandum of cooperation was signed. Fu Danzhou, member of the Party Group and vice president of Hunan Provincial Council for Promotion of International Trade, Xiang Rulian, deputy mayor of Huaihua Municipal Government, Lou Hongfu, vice chairman of Huaihua Municipal Political Consultative Conference and president of Huaihua Municipal Council for Promotion of International Trade, and Zuo Mu, president of Huaihua Intermediate People's Court, attended the establishing ceremony.
It was pointed out in the establishing ceremony that for Huaihua, an important node city of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor and a core member of the “13+N” inter provincial consultation and cooperation mechanism, the establishment of the Huaihua Office of Hunan Mediation Center of the China Council for Promotion of International Trade and the signing of cooperation is an important milestone in its new journey of opening up to the outside world, and also a pioneering move in continuing its millennium old business network and building its legal business environment, marking a new stage for its foreign-related rule of law and comprehensive foreign commercial services. So, Huaihua will bravely shoulder its mission, seize the global trend of commercial mediation development, act as a good escort for Huaihua enterprises to go abroad, create a strong magnetic field for win-win development, and forge a new highland of high-quality services by keeping deepening and improving the mechanism for mediating foreign-related commercial disputes, so as to promote the high-quality development of the city's foreign-related legal system.
At the ceremony, the Hunan Mediation Center of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Huaihua Municipal Intermediate People's Court, and Huaihua Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade jointly signed “Memorandum of Cooperation on Promoting Coordination of Litigation and Mediation in Foreign Commercial Disputes” , and the Hunan Mediation Center of the China Council for Promotion of International Trade has signed memorandums of cooperation with the People's Court of Xupu County and the People's Court of Hecheng District respectively. Afterwards, Yu Weiming, president of Hunan Commercial Mediation Association and professor at the Law School of Central South University, gave a special lecture on the topic of “Theory and Practice of Commercial Mediation”.
(Translated by Chen Min)