BRILA Harbin Center opens new office for Heihe cooperation projects

The Belt and Road International Lawyers Association (BRILA) Harbin Center opened a new office for cooperation projects in Heihe, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Dec 4.

Kang Yu, secretary-general of the BRILA; Jiang Tao, a member of the Leading Party Members Group and deputy director of the Heilongjiang Justice Department; and Xu Jingbo, deputy mayor of Heihe, Party secretary and director of the public security bureau of Heihe, all attended the event.

Heihe, located across the Heilong River from Russia, serves as a national logistics hub within the Heihe Area of the China (Heilongjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone. It has been designated as a cross-border industrial cluster and a demonstration zone for border city cooperation.

Jiang highlighted the city's long-term efforts in serving and integrating into Belt and Road cooperation and the significant progress in deepening reform and expanding opening-up by actively leveraging its geographical advantages. The new office will uphold the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, engage in pragmatic cooperation, and promote the high-quality development of the foreign-related rule of law within the province, he added.

Kang said the inauguration of the office will enable all parties to leverage the resource advantages of the BRILA and its Harbin Center to deepen international exchanges and cooperation in legal services. This will provide high-quality and efficient legal support for the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor and the development of the regional economy, he added.

The inauguration ceremony also witnessed the signing of a cooperation framework agreement between the BRILA Harbin Center and the justice bureau of Heihe. The agreement outlines both parties' commitment to fully utilizing BRILA's legal resources and continuously expanding the city's international cooperation, to jointly advance the foreign-related rule of law and legal services within the city.