At the beginning of this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan Outline" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), clearly proposing to "improve the international commercial dispute resolution mechanism, build an international arbitration center, and support the exchanges and cooperation of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao arbitration and mediation institutions. , To provide arbitration and mediation services for the economic and trade of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao." This has injected new impetus into the development of the Guangdong,Hong Kong & Macao Arbitration & Mediation Alliance, which is rooted in the Greater Bay Area and is jointly established by 15 commercial arbitration and mediation institutions in the three places. , The shared diversified dispute resolution mechanism puts forward new requirements.
On November 28, 2019, the Second Chairman's Meeting of the Third Session of the Guangdong,Hong Kong & Macao Arbitration & Mediation Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the "Alliance") was held under the above background. The chairman's meeting was hosted by the Arbitration Center of the Macau World Trade Center. Representatives from 15 alliance member institutions in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao attended the meeting. Liu Dexue, Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, and relevant experts from the Legal Affairs Bureau, and the first chairman of the alliance, Barrister Su Guoliang, attended the meeting as special guests.

Meeting scene

Gao Zhanpeng, Vice Chairman of the General Committee of the Macao World Trade Center Arbitration Center, served as the moderator of this meeting as the third chairman of the alliance.

Gao Zhanpeng, Chairman of the 3rd Alliance and Vice Chairman of the Committee of the Macao World Trade Center Arbitration Center

Director Liu Dexue delivered a speech at the beginning of the meeting. He first welcomed the representatives of member institutions of the alliance to Macau and congratulated the convening of this meeting. In his speech, he said that the "Outline" has clearly set a diversified dispute resolution mechanism as an important strategic goal. Over the past year, the governments and arbitration and mediation institutions of the three places have closely focused on this goal and made concerted efforts in system building, institution building, and system building. In terms of mechanism innovation, progress has been made and accelerated. Macau has just passed a brand-new arbitration law, which closely follows the provisions of the United Nations Model Arbitration Law, absorbs advanced experience and practices, and better serves market needs. In addition, a new mediation law is also being drafted. He hopes that in the future, Macau can use its own advantages to strengthen cooperation with other arbitration and mediation institutions in the Bay Area, achieve complementary advantages, dislocation development, and ultimately achieve a strong alliance and enrich the new practice of one country, two systems.

Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Liu Dexue

At the meeting, Liu Xiaochun, executive vice chairman of the alliance and president of the Shenzhen International Arbitration Court, made a summary of the work of the alliance in 2019. The member institutions of the alliance exchanged views on their work this year and discussed the next work plan. The meeting reviewed and approved the roster of the alliance's joint mediators in order to further give play to the role of professionals in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in dispute resolution and strengthen cooperation in the rule of law in the Greater Bay Area. At the meeting, Cao Yi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Alliance Secretariat and Deputy Director of the International Cooperation and Development Division of the Shenzhen International Arbitration Court, interpreted the contents and contents of the "Guangdong,Hong Kong & Macao Arbitration & Mediation Alliance Dispute Resolution Rules" to the representatives of the member institutions of the Alliance and the experts of the Macao Legal Affairs Bureau. Significance, further explored the use of rules and case management procedures. In the next step, the alliance will rely on the rules to give full play to the innovation of the "mediation + arbitration" model and the alliance's resource advantages to promote the mutual recognition, symbiosis, convergence and integration of the Bay Area rules and systems, so as to better provide the parties with professional convenience. Cross-border dispute resolution services to promote the construction of a business environment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the "Belt and Road" business environment.

Liu Xiaochun, Executive Vice Chairman of the Alliance and President of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration

Guo Xiaohui, Vice Chairman of the Alliance (Second Chairman), Executive Chairman of Shenzhen Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment

Yuan Xiaode, Vice Chairman of the Alliance and Chairman of the Shenzhen Securities and Futures Industry Dispute Mediation Center

Wen Zhiquan, Vice Chairman of the Alliance, Former Chairman of the Engineering Survey Group of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Chairman of the Joint Mediation Hotline Office

Siu Wing-jen, Vice Chairman of the Alliance and Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Mediation Council

Mei Ling, representative of the member institutions of the alliance and general manager of the corporate management department of China Foreign Trade Center

Cao Yi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Alliance Secretariat and Deputy Director of the International Cooperation and Development Division of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration

At the end of the meeting, the candidate for the fourth chairman of the alliance was discussed and approved. According to the “Articles of Association” of the alliance, the term of office of the chairman of the alliance is two years, with persons from Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macao taking turns to serve. The term of office of the third chairman of the alliance, Gao Zhanpeng, is about to expire. According to the “Articles of Association” of the alliance, Guo Jian’an, chairman of the Commercial Mediation Committee of the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association (Chairman of China Legal Services Hong Kong Co., Ltd.), was nominated as the fourth chairman of the alliance and was unanimously approved by the members of the chairman meeting. The first chairman of the alliance, Mr. Su Guoliang from Hong Kong, gave a message on the future development of the alliance at the end of the meeting.

Su Guoliang, the first chairman of the Alliance, Hong Kong practising barrister

In the six years since its establishment in 2013, the alliance has played an increasingly important role through continuous collaboration and innovation. Under the new historical opportunity of building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the member institutions of the alliance will make concerted efforts to bring the Greater Bay Area’s dispute resolution cooperation into a new stage through the joint construction of a mechanism platform, and give better play to the alliance’s role in the Greater Bay Area. The role of the district is to promote the institutionalization of the construction of the business environment in the three places, and to provide high-quality, efficient and convenient dispute resolution services for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Brief introduction of the alliance:

On December 7, 2013, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Qianhai and asked Qianhai to build a socialist rule of law demonstration zone for the first anniversary, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration actively responded to the call of the central government and took the lead in establishing an alliance in China's Qianhai Free Trade Zone. The member institutions of the alliance include the Commercial Mediation Committee of the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center Mediation Committee, the Hong Kong Settlement Center, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, the Hong Kong Joint Mediation Hotline Office, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitration, the Macau World Trade Center Arbitration Center, and the British Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia Branch), China Foreign Trade Center (Canton Fair International Trade and Intellectual Property Complaint Station), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and its Mediation Center, Guangdong Federation of Industry and Commerce Arbitration and Mediation Center (Guangdong Private Enterprise Complaint Center), Shenzhen 15 major commercial mediation and arbitration institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, including the General Chamber of Commerce Mediation and Arbitration Center, the Commercial Mediation Committee of the Shenzhen Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, the Shenzhen Securities and Futures Industry Dispute Mediation Center, and the Qianhai “One Belt One Road” International Commercial Litigation Docking Center. Broad representation and influence. The alliance has established an equal and open cooperation mechanism, with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao taking turns to assume the chairmanship.

In the six years since its establishment, the alliance has organically integrated the diversified dispute resolution resources of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, continuously strengthened the close communication and cooperation between legal service agencies and professionals in the Bay Area, and actively served the overall construction of the country’s "One Belt One Road" and "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area". A large number of cross-border commercial disputes have been resolved through the alliance cooperation mechanism, and the parties to arbitration and mediation have come from 119 countries of origin. With the introduction of the "Outline", the alliance will certainly play a greater role, through policy support and cooperation and innovation, to a greater extent to serve the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" and the "Belt and Road" market-oriented legalized international business environment Construction.

Photos of representatives of other member institutions of the alliance attending the meeting:

Chen Haowen, Vice President of the Hong Kong Reconciliation Center

Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitration Affairs Development Committee Tang Daxi

Li Ziheng, member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia)

Li Mingrui, Deputy Secretary-General of the Commercial Mediation Committee of the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association

Li Ying, the second-level chief staff member of the Guangdong Private Enterprise Complaint Center

Wang Qihui, Secretary General of the People's Mediation Committee of Shenzhen Chamber of Commerce