3.The 7-square-kilometer "Hongqiao International ** Legal District" is further empowering enterprises to improve their quality and development.
A few days ago, on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the start of the construction of the Hongqiao International Open Hub, Yicai learned from the Hongqiao Business District Management Committee that as an important highland for the international development of enterprises guaranteed by the judiciary, Hongqiao International ** Legal District (hereinafter referred to as the ""Legal District")."Legal District"Since its establishment in September 2021, it has become a "new platform" for legal services facing the Yangtze River Delta, radiating the whole country and connecting the world.
84 institutions have been landed.
Liu Linqing, a member of the leading group for the construction of the legal district and the chief of the forensic section of the law firm of the Minhang District Justice Bureau, gave a set of authoritative data: up to now, 84 legal and pan-legal service institutions have been implemented in the legal district, including 36 law firms, 45 legal technology and other pan-legal service institutions and three functional platforms; The above-mentioned institutions cover a variety of industry types such as lawyers, arbitration, notaries, and legal technology, and involve multiple support policies such as rent subsidies and start-up subsidies.
The three functional platforms include: the Hongqiao Center of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Shanghai Arbitration Commission Hongqiao Center"), the Liaison Office of the Member Service Center of the Yangtze River Delta Integration Industry Development Research Center of the Shanghai Bar Association, and the Hongqiao Liaison Department of the Shanghai Oriental Extraterritorial Legal Identification Service Center.
Liu Linqing also said that compared with September 2021, when the legal district was first established, there are currently 62 new institutions in the legal district, with a growth rate of 269%. Among them, 10 contracted legal service institutions have settled in the Legal Building, with a contracted area of nearly 80%.
Hongqiao is an open hub that gathers transportation and distribution flows, business flows and industrial link flows, among which there are more and more high-level enterprises located here, and they urgently need the support of professional legal service institutions. Liu Linqing told reporters that the first-class legal district accurately connects the headquarters economy, exhibition economy, service economy, cross-border dispute resolution, maritime affairs, investment and mergers and acquisitions, international, intellectual property rights and other legal services involved in the headquarters economy, exhibition economy, service economy, and economic development, "This is also the unique resource advantage of Hongqiao International Business District."
Jiang Yuan, head of the business department of the Joint Sourcing Project Office of the United Nations Asia Sourcing Center, which is located in the Hongqiao Business District, said that most of the business involved in the Joint Sourcing Project Office is a purchase order from the United Nations (or other international organizations) in which the enterprise participates, so enterprises will encounter many problems in foreign-related commercial and legal affairs. ”
Hong Zuyun, CEO of Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology, said that the company settled in the legal district and built the first "global high-quality career development center". "We look forward to quickly completing the construction of the Global High-Quality Career Development Center in the Legal District, and making the Center a base for holding various trainings, conferences and activities in the Legal District, so as to connect lawyers with lawyers, between lawyers and enterprises, and between Chinese lawyers and the world." ”
15-minute "arbitration circle".
The legal district is also an important practice to serve the integrated and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta.
In November 2020, under the guidance and support of the judicial bureaus (departments) of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui, nine arbitration institutions in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui jointly initiated the establishment of the "Yangtze River Delta Arbitration Integration Development Alliance" and signed the "Yangtze River Delta Arbitration Integration Development Alliance Cooperation Agreement".
In order to further strengthen the ability of judicial protection in serving the Yangtze River Delta and connecting the world, in December 2023, the Minhang District Bureau of Justice and the judicial administrative organs of cities, districts and counties in the north-south expansion zone of the Hongqiao International Development Hub signed the "Agreement on Strengthening Regional Coordination and Jointly Building the Hongqiao International ** Legal District", thus further forming a cross-regional legal professional service system.
Fan Mingchao, executive deputy director of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, told reporters that judging from the situation of the Hongqiao Center of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, among the more than 7,300 arbitration cases accepted in 2023, about 75% of the parties are one or both parties are not in Shanghai, and about 40% of the parties are not in Shanghai, and the vast majority of the parties are involved in the Yangtze River Delta region. Because of this, there is a certain practical demand for the entrustment of inter-provincial arbitration cases in the Yangtze River Delta.
For example, Fan Mingchao said that there was a dispute accepted by the Nantong Arbitration Commission, and the parties to the case and the arbitral tribunal were located in Shanghai, Nantong and Qidong. "All parties have been exempted from all costs in terms of time and expense, which has further improved the efficiency of our processing. ”
At present, the Hongqiao Center of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission has become the only arbitration institution in the world that can be reached within 15 minutes of getting off the plane or train. "The 'same-day round-trip' for arbitration cases in the Yangtze River Delta region is truly possible, and in the future, we plan to land more space in the legal area for the above-mentioned shared hearings. ”
Talking about the next step of the legal district's planning, Liu Linqing said that it will link the existing pan-legal service institutions and enterprises by designing an online mini program. In this way, enterprises can get targeted legal help at any time, especially to answer some difficult questions about intellectual property, so as to empower enterprises to develop better. ”