On July 12, the 2025 annual conference of the China Society of Private International Law was held in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan province. The event also featured a forum on private international law and Chinese modernization.

Tao Kaiyuan, vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) and vice-president of the China Law Society, attended the event and delivered remarks. 

Tao noted that the China Society of Private International Law has achieved fruitful results in institutional development, academic research, legislative consultation, international exchanges and talent development under the leadership of the China Law Society. She said that the China Society of Private International Law has played an important role in integrating theoretical frontiers with institutional practices, advancing the sound development of private international law in China.

Tao emphasized that this conference, focusing on teaching, research, talent cultivation, and social service in the field of private international law, will profoundly enrich theoretical and knowledge systems in this field and be of great significance for the modernization of foreign-related rule of law system and capacity in China. She urged members of the society to conduct in-depth research on the major theoretical and practical challenges China currently faces, in a bid to build an independent knowledge system of private international law with Chinese characteristics, contributing Chinese wisdom and solutions to building global consensus on the rule of law.

Huang Jin, president of the China Society of Private International Law and a senior professor of humanities and social sciences at Wuhan University, as well as representatives from the Sichuan High People’s Court and Chengdu University also spoke at the conference. 

The event gathered over 400 participants, including representatives from the China Law Society, the SPC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the preparatory office of the international commercial mediation center, the National Judges College, and relevant government agencies of Sichuan and Chengdu, along with  experts and scholars from more than 100 universities and research institutes.