An advanced training program on the legal services of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries was recently held in the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province. China's Vice-Minister of Justice Wang Zhenjiang and Vice-Governor of Shandong Li Wei both addressed the closing ceremony.

The program is an important initiative to implement the guiding principles of President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 10th Meeting of the SCO Ministers of Justice, serving as China's response to the concerns of SCO member states about strengthening exchanges and cooperation in the legal and judicial administration fields and providing an important platform for exchanges and mutual learning among justice ministries of SCO members.

The program focused on promoting Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and China's significant achievements in promoting the rule of law through various forms, including lectures, seminars, field visits and cultural experience activities. It also featured in-depth presentations by renowned legal experts on China's national conditions and traditional legal culture, as well as theoretical lectures and field visits on exploring mechanisms for one-stop diversified resolution of international commercial disputes.

Participants said that through the program, they have gained a comprehensive and systematic understanding of China's practice of the rule of law and Chinese traditional legal culture. They lauded the remarkable achievements China has made in promoting the rule of law, expressing a strong desire to further strengthen pragmatic cooperation and exchanges in the fields of law and judicial administration among SCO countries and a willingness to contribute to exchanges and mutual learning in the rule of law among SCO member states.

The program was organized by the Ministry of Justice of China and co-organized by the Justice Department of Shandong. Officials at the department and bureau level from the justice ministries of such countries as Belarus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Mongolia, as well as those from China's relevant provincial-level judicial administrative organs, participated in the training.