Shanghai's Pudong New Area steps up efforts to build an international legal service center

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Huang Aiwu, director of the Pudong New Area Judicial Bureau, noted that standing at the front line of the nation's reform and opening-up, Pudong is relentlessly exploring ways to…

Shanghai Pudong New Area has been ramping up efforts to improve its foreign-related legal services, aiming to better support the city's high-level opening-up, as well as local businesses' international expansion.

Over the years, Pudong has seen remarkable achievements in its legal framework and regulatory innovation. Centered on key sectors such as biomedicine, international shipping, and commercial mediation, dozens of regulations and management measures for Pudong New Area have been established as of September.

Among them, more than 20 are related to foreign-related affairs. They primarily focus on enhancing the facilitation of international trade, promoting institutional opening-up, and improving the quality of foreign-related legal services. These efforts were made to continuously fill institutional gaps in specific domestic sectors, and establish a foreign-related legal framework aligned with international standards, according to the Pudong New Area Judicial Bureau.

In the commercial mediation sector, Shanghai enacted the nation's first provincial-level regulation governing commercial mediation, and established the country's first commercial mediation organization to be registered and assigned a code by the judicial administrative authorities. Moreover, the nation's first foreign-related case in which a commercial mediator independently conducted mediation was successfully concluded in this area, further expanding the institutional scope of commercial mediation.

The bureau also introduced a slew of talent policies to cultivate legal professionals and grow a legal service cluster in the area. Shanghai's first Shanghai-Hong Kong partnership law firm was established in Pudong, and the city's first foreign legal advisor was appointed following the implementation of new hiring regulations.

To date, Pudong has clustered a number of globally influential international organizations and diverse legal institutions — including judicial adjudication, notary services, legal…

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