From March 20 to 21, the 2025 Legal Work Conference of the National Trade Promotion System was held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the conference fully implemented the guidelines outlined in the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the second and third plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, as well as the Central Economic Work Conference, studied and gained an in-depth understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Economy, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, took stock of the work in 2024, and arranged the key tasks for 2025. Yu Jianlong, Vice Chairman and Member of the CPC Leadership Group at the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), delivered a work report.
The conference stressed that 2025 is the final year for implementing the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), and it is of great significance to ensure good performance in the legal work regarding trade promotion. The national trade promotion system should continue to thoroughly study and implement the guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s address at the Conference of the 70th Anniversary of CCPIT and the Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit and his congratulatory letter to the 2024 International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) World Congress. It should stay committed to pursuing progress while ensuring stability, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground and promoting coordinated development. Redoubled efforts are required to improve the diversified dispute resolution mechanism, provide better intellectual property rights services, refine the public legal service mechanism, and advance the reform and building of the global economic governance system. In addition, it should intensify efforts to train legal personnel on foreign affairs. All these efforts strive to write a new chapter of high-quality development of the trade promotion cause in the realm of legal work.
Relevant responsible officials from the CCPIT, its directly affiliated organizations, its sub-councils in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and industrial sub-councils attended the conference.
