On the afternoon of June 18, the International Symposium on the Rule of Law in Financial Regulation, a key event of the 2026 Lujiazui Forum, was held in Shanghai. Liu Guixiang, a Standing Member of the Adjudication Committee of the Supreme People¡¯s Court at the vice-ministerial level, and Jia Yu, Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group and President of the High People¡¯s Court of Shanghai Municipality (Shanghai High People¡¯s Court), attended the event and delivered opening addresses.

Cheng Hehong, Chief Lawyer of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Ignacio Tirado, Secretary-General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Huang Jin, President of the Chinese Society of International Law and the China Society of Private International Law, and Zhao Hong, President of the Shanghai Financial Court, delivered keynote speeches. Lin Xiaonie, a member of the Leading Party Members Group and Vice President of the Shanghai High People¡¯s Court, presided over the symposium. The event was attended by over 200 representatives from government departments, regulatory bodies, judicial organs, as well as renowned experts and scholars from both home and abroad.

Themed ¡°Collaboration of Financial Regulation and Joint Development of Rules in the New Landscape of Global Governance,¡± this year¡¯s symposium saw experts and scholars focus on cutting-edge issues. These included the alignment of domestic and international legal rules, judicial and regulatory responses to financial risk prevention, and innovations in financial rule of law in advancing high-level financial opening-up centered on institutional opening-up. Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on advancing the co-building and sharing of legal rules, as well as improving collaboration of financial regulation.

During the symposium, a selection of representative cases was released, involving foreign-related and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan-related financial and commercial disputes adjudicated between 2021 and 2025.