On June 6, 2025, the China High-Level Dialogue on Maritime and Commercial Arbitration was held in Beijing. Ren Hongbin, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and Chairman of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC); Huang Yi, Director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Justice; Fu Xuyin, Vice Minister of Transport; and Wang Zhenjiang, Vice President of the China Law Society, attended and addressed the opening ceremony. Yu Jianlong, Vice Chairman of the CCPIT and Vice Chairman of the CMAC, presided over the ceremony.
Ren Hongbin noted that the third plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has outlined new plans for and injected fresh momentum into deepening arbitration system reforms, improving international commercial arbitration and mediation mechanisms, and developing new institutions and rules for maritime arbitration. The CCPIT is willing to work with the legal, business, and academic communities to accelerate the building of a global arbitration service system that covers a wide range and provides targeted and effective services, strive for high-quality development of China’s arbitration sector, and demonstrate new commitments and make new contributions in the new journey of advancing law-based governance on all fronts. First, uphold an innovation-driven approach to continuously improve the maritime arbitration system; second, strengthen research on rules to actively engage in global arbitration governance; and third, deepen exchanges and cooperation to fully unleash the synergies of commercial-legal collaboration.
Under the theme “Promoting Innovation in the Maritime Arbitration System and Building World-Class Arbitration Institutions,” this year’s Dialogue was hosted by the CMAC.
