SFC Held Symposium on ¡°High-Quality Development of a Specialized Financial Court¡±

On July 18, the Shanghai Financial Court (SFC) held a symposium on ¡°High-Quality Development of a Specialized Financial Court¡±. The event was attended by Jia Yu, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and president of the Shanghai High People¡¯s Court, Han Shunfang, head of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Eighth Circuit Steering Group for Thematic Education; Xie Shenghua, member of the Party Committee and deputy chief editor of the Supreme People¡¯s Court News and Media Agency; Lu Weidong, member of the Standing Committee and chairman of the Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People¡¯s Congress, Sheng Yongqiang, deputy director of the Shanghai Committee of CPPCC for Social and Legal Affairs, deputy chief prosecutor and deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Shanghai Municipal People¡¯s Procuratorate; Cheng Hehong, secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Shanghai Office of China Securities Regulatory Commission, as well as leaders from the Shanghai Municipal Audit Bureau, Shanghai Municipal Financial Regulatory Bureau, and the Shanghai Head Office of the People¡¯s Bank of China, the Shanghai Bureau of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, and the Pudong New Area Party Committee, Huangpu District Party Committee and other local legal institutions in the city. The symposium was presided over by Zhao Hong, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and president of the SFC.

During the meeting, Zhao Hong reviewed the work carried out by the SFC in the past five years since its establishment under the symposium theme, focusing on the goal of building a ¡°specialized, international, and intelligent¡± world-class financial court. Leaders and guests at the meeting exchanged views and highly praised the achievements of the SFC in the five years since its establishment.

Jia Yu, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and president of the Shanghai High People¡¯s Court, expressed his hope that the SFC will continue to set its eyes on the goal of ¡°becoming a specialized, international, and intelligent court¡± and burnish the credentials of Shanghai¡¯s financial adjudication. He emphasized the need to enhance political stance and improve financial judicial service capability, strengthen specialization and boost the credentials of Shanghai¡¯s financial judiciary, embrace digital empowerment and develop a digital approach for financial supervision, and enhance the capabilities of the court¡¯s personnel.

Attendees watched a five-year work report video of the SFC during the symposium. Lin Xiaonie, member of the Party Leadership Group and vice president of the SFC, reported on the achievements of the SFC in terms of rule creation, mechanism innovation, and talent training.

More than 80 people, including representatives from financial regulatory agencies, the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the Shanghai Bar Association, major financial infrastructure entities, various universities, news media, as well as National People¡¯s Congress deputies, members of the CPPCC, and judges and staff from Shanghai¡¯s three levels of courts who have contributed greatly to the establishment of the SFC, attended the meeting.