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Welcome to visit  Legal Affairs Center of Shandong Council for the Promotion of International Trade! Our website was established on Feb 8th 2006.

Presently, the English edition of it is still in building. We will do our best to make it perfect. 

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Legal Affairs Center

The Legal Affairs Center is a professional legal consultant under direct supervision of Shandong Committee of China Council for Promotion of International Trade, boasting of top-notch professionals and cooperation with several business associations, legal institutions and lawyer’s offices home and abroad.

The Legal Affairs Center, with high sense of responsibility and great importance attached to efficiency and quality of services provided, has been providing all kinds of legal consultation services to its members, export-oriented enterprises and social groups: acting as their permanent or designated legal service consultant; handling non-court cases; acting on behalf of clients to handle mediation, initiation of court cases and arbitration; providing foreign business investigation and debt collection; as well as providing legal services to foreign parties relating to their joint investment, cooperation and negotiations.

Shandong Mediation Center of CCPIT

Characterized by outstanding features such as efficiency, confidentiality and flexibility, and friendly-negotiations, as well as being cost-effective, mediation, as a supplement to court and arbitration to solve disputes, has been more and more popular and widely applied in the world.

Shandong Mediation Center of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (hereinafter refers to Shandong Mediation Center)(with a branch office in Qingdao) is a permanent and professional business disputes mediation institution in Shandong set up in 1993 with approval from Shandong Provincial Government and National Office of China Council for Promotion of International Trade, the duties and responsibilities of which is to independently help parties in disputes to sort out international business and trade disputes or disputes relating to investment and cooperation in the mode of mediation and in the principle of impartiality and fairness.

The mediation is held in the following manners: in respect for the intentions of the parties in disputes and contract obligations; in accordance to the laws and international common practices; and in the manner of impartiality and fairness, to promote the mutual understanding of the parties involved to reach agreement and to safeguard the cooperation and future benefits of them.

The Mediation Center handles cases in which the parties involved have mediation clauses; where there are no mediation clauses stated, the center handles the case when one party submits an application and after approval of the other party/parties involved.

Shandong Office of CIETAC

China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (with an English acronym of CIETAC) is one of the major permanent arbitration institutions in the world for business and trade disputes, set up in April 1956 and attached to China Council for Promotion of International Trade.

After 50 years of consistent hard-working and being one of the busiest arbitration institutions in the world, CIETAC has helped to the formulate the Arbitration Law in China and made great contributions to the development of arbitration sector in China, boasting of its independence, impartiality and efficiency home and abroad.

The Shandong Office of CIETAC was established in April 2004 with a liaison office in Qingdao, both of which are under direct supervision of the arbitration commission.

Shandong Office and its Qingdao liaison office, in the principle of efficiency, quality and impartiality, provide necessary and relevant services to the parties involved in business and trade disputes handled by the CIETAC.