Recently, China Law Society announced the list of winners of the 18^th "Yangtze River Delta Law Forum" essay contest themed by "Legal Guarantee for the Construction of G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in Yangtze River Delta". Among the 442 essays collected, 40 winning essays were selected after preliminary evaluation by the Forum Organizing Committee, academic misconduct check by the Member Department of China Law Society and review by the Final Evaluation Committee, including 5 first prizes, 12 second prizes and 23 third prizes. Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court got three prizes, becoming the most awarded court in this essay contest. 

Pan Jieer from the Research Office won the second prize for his essay "Theory Construction and Realization Path Exploration of the Function Orientation of Intermediate Courts in the Context of Optimizing the Law-based Business Environment - Starting from the Establishment of a Mechanism for Resolving Differences in the Application of Law". Hou Wenjing from the Research Office and Yu Shaoqi from the Civil Division won the third prizes for essays "Exploration to Legal Protection of Business Environment for the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta Region - On Establishment of FTZ Dispute Resolution Center from the Perspective of RCEP" and "Compliance of E-commerce Platforms: An Empirical Study on Rules concerning Security Obligations of Platforms" respectively. The above three essays are progressive achievements of the winning project of Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court.

In recent years, Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court has been focusing on serving the leadership decision-making, judicial work and scientific development of the court. It attaches great importance to researches, and strives to improve the transformation rate and quality of research results while making efforts to improve the research quality to ensure that they can stand the test of judicial practice and academic standards. In the future, the court will continue to focus on hot and difficult issues in judicial practice, closely follow the goal of building a "speculative research-oriented court", and give full play to the positive role of court research in deepening academic studies, serving judicial practices and even serving and guaranteeing the overall development.