Jiangxi to set up foreign-related legal service centers and support law firms' global expansion

East China's Jiangxi province has announced plans to boost its foreign-related legal services and extend their global reach, as outlined at the province's recent conference on judicial administration work held in the capital, Nanchang.

According to the conference, the province plans to establish the Ganjiang New Area Foreign-Related Legal Service Platform, explore the establishment of diverse foreign-related legal service centers and build a dedicated expert database in the field in 2026.

Efforts will also focus on cultivating a group of foreign-related lawyers, arbitrators and mediators with knowledge of international rules. This will enhance the capacity of arbitration institutions in foreign-related legal services and support law firms in establishing branches in countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions.

In 2025, judicial administrative organs across Jiangxi took multiple steps to improve the province's law-based business environment. They launched a special campaign to regulate enterprise-related administrative law enforcement and upheld the practice of the "Fengqiao Experience", a successful model for grassroots dispute resolution. A total of 253,000 disputes were mediated in 2025, with a resolution rate exceeding 98 percent.

Throughout the year, more than 960,000 legal service cases were handled in the province, supported by 851,700 legally savvy people who assist in grassroots governance.

Looking ahead to 2026, the conference emphasized that Jiangxi's judicial administrative organs will improve their legal service mechanisms for enterprises, foster the growth of the private sector and promptly rectify practices or policies that hinder the development of a unified national market. These measures aim to create a law-based environment of fair competition for all market entities.

In addition, the conference urged judicial administrative organs across the province to adopt a preventive approach to law-based governance. It called on them to improve an integrated system centered on people's mediation and featuring coordination with all types of mediation, and to actively cultivate highly skilled grassroots mediators.

The conference also called for the establishment of demonstrative people's mediation offices in 80 percent of Jiangxi's county-level regions to effectively resolve major, complex and challenging disputes at the local level.