Reporter Yu Dongming
Trainee reporter Zhang Haiyan
Recently, Huangpu District of Shanghai launched the "Huangpu District Action Plan for Accelerating Economic Recovery and Revitalization", which proposed 36 specific measures from 10 aspects, requiring the construction of the best legal ecology and escorting post-epidemic revival.
To this end, Huangpu District, on the basis of the original rule of law construction measures, proposed to create a "Bund legal service cluster", aiming to build a more high-quality, efficient and concentrated legal service industry, further optimize the business environment, and enhance the core competitiveness of the region.
"After the epidemic, how to better speed up economic recovery and revive industrial confidence, Huangpu District, as Shanghai's 'heart, window, and business card', is duty-bound. If the forces driving the post-epidemic revival are compared to an aircraft carrier battle group, The rule of law will be one of the most important frigates." Tang Hong, member of the Standing Committee of the Huangpu District Party Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, told the "Rule of Law Daily" reporter that the construction of the "Bund Legal Service Cluster" can further optimize and aggregate high-quality legal service resources at home and abroad, and promote the formation of A more market-oriented, legalized, internationalized, and convenient legal service industry will provide new samples and inject new vitality into Shanghai's post-pandemic recovery.
plan ahead
As early as a year ago, Huangpu District began to plan the construction of the "Bund Legal Service Cluster", from industry research to opinion collection, from risk demonstration to the formulation of implementation plans, step by step.
Cao Zhilong, vice president of Shanghai Lawyers Association and partner of Shanghai United Law Firm, participated in the risk demonstration of the industry research.
"The construction of the 'The Bund Legal Service Agglomeration Belt' in Huangpu District fully complies with the requirements proposed by Shanghai to build an 'international legal service center' and accelerate the development of legal service institutions along the 'One River and One River' during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period. Take responsibility for the core area of the central city." Cao Zhilong said.
It is reported that "one river and one river" refers to the Huangpu River and Suzhou River, which are an indispensable and valuable resource for Shanghai's future development, an important core function development axis, and an important spatial carrier to demonstrate the city's soft power.
The Huangpu District is at the intersection of "one river and one river", and the Bund is its center and origin.
In Cao Zhilong's view, the "Bund Legal Service Cluster Belt" can form a "double-belt-driven" development pattern together with the "Bund Financial Cluster Belt" that Huangpu District has been building in recent years, which will effectively promote the implementation of the "One River and One River" development strategy. , will also greatly boost the motivation and confidence of Shanghai, especially the Huangpu District, to recover after the epidemic.
No. 377 Bansongyuan Road is the location of the office building of Shanghai Commercial Paper Exchange. In the past two months of epidemic control, the business system of the Clearing House has been running smoothly, not only ensuring millions of corporate users and more than 100,000 financial systems Participants completed various bill behaviors and fund delivery, and also realized the launch of the new system on schedule.
Attorney Zhu Liting, director of Beijing Guofeng (Shanghai) Law Firm, is the legal counsel here. He also serves as an arbitrator for several arbitration institutions.
Zhu Liting said that any financial product is inseparable from legal design, and any financial activity requires legal rules, especially in the context of normalized epidemic prevention and control, the rule of law is particularly important.
"Finance and the rule of law go hand in hand, and the construction of the rule of law will be more conducive to preventing and defusing financial risks and promoting the steady development of the financial industry. At the same time, the development of the financial industry will further enhance and demonstrate the level and ability of the rule of law construction."
During the interview, the reporter also learned that building a "Bund legal service cluster" is also the need for the construction of "safe Huangpu" and "law-based Huangpu", especially for the continuous urban renewal of Huangpu District in recent years, to build a more cohesive The legal service industry will solve all kinds of conflicts and difficulties better, faster and more effectively.
At the 2022 meeting of the Huangpu District Committee for Comprehensively Governing the District by Law (Expanded), Huangpu District put forward higher requirements for grass-roots rule of law construction and comprehensive law-based governance, and pointed out that it is necessary to lead the construction of a more international vision and higher level. The legal service industry will play a stronger gathering and leading role, improve the level of grass-roots rule of law construction, and further optimize the business environment.
Wang Jianzhong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Huangpu District Judicial Bureau, said: "To build a 'Bund legal service cluster' is to base on the actual situation of the region, integrate resources from all parties, promote strengths and avoid weaknesses, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and continuously meet the needs of various aspects of social and economic development. Improve the people's sense of gain and satisfaction with the construction of the rule of law."
Build high ground
A few days ago, a public welfare theme lecture on Binjiang Party Building and Financial Bund to help enterprises resume work and production was successfully held.
Liu Qinru, a lawyer from Beijing Guofeng (Shanghai) Law Firm, explained the doubts and doubts of Binjiang party building members around the recruitment stage and the conclusion, performance and termination of labor contracts.
At the public welfare lecture, representatives of Shanghai Gold Exchange, Bank of Communications Shanghai Branch and other member units asked questions and interacted with each other.
"This legal lecture is timely and down-to-earth, and provides practical legal protection for enterprises to resume work and production in a safe and orderly manner," said a person in charge of a financial institution.
The construction of "The Bund Legal Service Cluster" will create a more leading and cohesive party building highland for the Huangpu lawyer industry, continuously improve the lawyers' awareness of social responsibility and loyalty to the people, and establish a high-spirited social image of Huangpu lawyers in the new era.
At the same time, through the construction of the "Bund Legal Service Agglomeration Belt", it will also create a talent highland, a gathering highland and a development highland for the legal service industry.
In terms of building a talent highland, Huangpu District focuses on the settlement of high-end talents, the cultivation of young talents, the aggregation of foreign-related legal service talents, and the evaluation and selection of leading talents to provide policy support to attract industry elites and industry leading units.
In terms of building a gathering highland, Huangpu District gathers talents and talents with an international perspective, encourages leaders and outstanding people in the legal service industry to gather in Huangpu, and by increasing policy support, encourages them to participate in political affairs, and deeply integrate into social governance and the construction of the rule of law. Throughout the process, they constantly enhance their sense of belonging and gain.
In terms of building a development highland, Huangpu District will be committed to building an industry development exchange platform and business expansion platform, and increase industry promotion efforts, so that it can go out of Shanghai and abroad, and make a strong voice in the legal service industry in China.
At the same time, by giving full play to their functional advantages, more legal service workers can become "business ambassadors", "international exchange ambassadors", party and government legal advisers, and financial rule of law experts, so as to achieve multi-dimensional, high-quality, and high-level development of the industry. situation.
The reporter also noticed that Huangpu District specially put forward the concept of "public meeting room" in the construction of "The Bund Legal Service Agglomeration Belt", which aims to provide a shared space for legal service institutions from all over the country and abroad, and deeply explore the infinite space of limited space. potential.
Optimize ecology
Provide epidemic-related notary services, reduce fees for epidemic-related notaries, and open green channels for epidemic-related enterprises and front-line personnel of epidemic prevention and control... From July 1, the three notary offices in Huangpu District, Huangpu, Luwan, and New Huangpu will be added. Promote the six major services to help enterprises bail out, assist in the resumption of work and production, and actively use the advantages of notarization and statutory certification to help enterprises and the public solve practical problems.
"It is easy to enter the door and difficult to go out, and it is not easy to shut down and change." Under the epidemic, many companies have fallen into difficulties.
How to exit the market smoothly and efficiently solve various intractable diseases such as "shutdown and transfer"?
The "Shutdown and Transfer" one-stop service forum jointly sponsored by Shanghai Zhongyin Law Firm, Zhongzun Clearing Service Co., Ltd., Dagong Auction Co., Ltd. and Dagong Mediation Center was successfully held to provide legal relief solutions for enterprises in trouble.
At the Bund Street Public Legal Service Workstation, the reporter saw that after the epidemic, the number of calls for help has increased significantly, what to do if you are dismissed due to the epidemic, whether rent can be reduced or exempted during the epidemic... Many legal questions are answered here one by one.
As the legal advisor of the Huangpu District Government, Mao Huigang, director of Shanghai Jinmao Law Firm, believes that the establishment of the "Bund Legal Service Cluster" is to promote the upgrading and upgrading of the legal service industry in Huangpu District and build a good ecosystem for the high-quality development of Huangpu's legal industry. .
"The challenges and opportunities facing the legal profession are even greater, and the burdens on our shoulders are also heavier. We must take the initiative to perform our duties, make suggestions for the party committee and government, be a good consultant for the vast number of enterprises, and solve problems for the general public."
Recently, Huangpu District has also comprehensively launched the construction of "Community for Optimizing Business Environment" and "Community of Law-based Governance at Grassroots Level", which further provides fertile soil for the integration of the public legal service industry into social governance. Improve the business environment and improve the ability and level of grassroots governance according to law.
Tang Hong said: "As one of the first demonstration zones for the construction of a rule of law government in the country, Huangpu District must actively pressurize, continue to innovate, and continue to make efforts to continuously improve the level and capability of the construction of safety and the rule of law by building a 'the Bund legal service agglomeration belt'. , enhance the competitiveness from an international perspective, improve the soft power of the core urban area, and enhance the radiation power of the 'Huangpu brand'."