Summary of Guest Speeches at the Keynote Speeches Module of The Ninth East Lake International Law Forum

The Ninth East Lake International Law was successfully held in Wuhan. The Forum was co-hosted by the International Commercial Dispute Prevention and Settlement Organization (ICDPASO), Wuhan University, and Chinese Society of International Law. In the keynote speech module, authoritative experts and scholars from the legal and business sectors were invited to share the theme of the forum,“The International Rule of Law Guarantee of High-Standard Institutional Opening Up”.

XU Xianming, Vice President of the China Law Society and Chairman of the Steering Committee for Law Teaching of the Ministry of Education pointed out that the rule of law has a leading, encompassing and safeguarding relationship to China's modernisation. The rule of law should provide a path, a track, and a platform for the advancement of the Chinese path to modernization, build a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law, and follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.

FAN Hengshan, former Deputy Secretary General of the National Development and Reform Commission proposed that systematic opening up is a major upgrade of the opening up level, representing the highest level of opening up to the outside world. Institution-based opening up should grasp the key links, take the initiative to dock with international high-standard economic and trade rules, make efforts to improve the basic market system, optimise the business environment, adhere to the correct direction, effectively grasp the boundaries between change and no change, and effectively play the role of promotion and support of the rule of law.

GOU Haibo, Deputy Director General of The Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, combined with the practice of legal work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pointed out that the judicialization of international politics has intensified unprecedently, the struggle for the dominant right to formulate rules has become more intense, and the legal war in the game of great powers has been heating up, so we should adhere to the problem orientation, closely serve the central work of the domestic development and diplomacy, and adhere to the strategic thinking, and continuously improve the construction of foreign-related rule of law personnel.

LIU Xiaohong, President of the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and the President of Shanghai Arbitration Commission, stated that improving and perfecting the commercial arbitration system is a need for high-level opening up to the outside world, and that ad hoc arbitration should be formally introduced into the field of foreign-related arbitration, improving the types of interim measures and the procedures for their issuance and implementation, moderately enlarging the scope of arbitrability, providing space for new types of disputes to be included in the scope of arbitrability, and empowering the legislation on arbitration in the localities.

LUO Ping, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Wuhan Arbitration Commission pointed out the contribution of arbitration in building China's Institutional Opening Up by focusing on three aspects: adjudicating commercial disputes, escorting opening up to the outside world; creating Mediation combined with arbitration systems, contributing oriental wisdom; and building an international arbitration centre, constructing an Institutional Opening Up highland. Furthermore, more open, diversified and inclusive arbitration rules should be formulated, the training of talents in foreign-related arbitration should be further strengthened, publicity and promotion should be increased and theoretical research deepened.

LIU Renshan, Vice President of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, puts forward that private international law and the construction of foreign-related rule of law, in terms of the issues of concern, the pursuit of the goal, the connotation and composition, and the main body, there is a close connection and a high degree of consistency, and that private international law should be the study of the global rule of law, and it is the study that pushes for the construction of a new international civil and commercial order, and even pushes for the construction of a community of destiny of mankind, and that we should insist on cultivating a team of talents in private international law conservatively and innovatively in order to provide a pool of talent for building the rule of law in foreign countries.