On November 4, the 10th International Mediation Summit was successfully held in Changsha, Hunan Province. Nie Wenhui, Vice Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT); Mao Zhonghua, Vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court; Wang Zhenjiang, Vice-president of the China Law Society; Hu Xusheng, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial People’s Congress; Eric Chua, Senior Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Law of Singapore; and Du Yaling, Head of the Bureau of People's Participation and Promotion of Rule of Law of the Ministry of Justice, attended and addressed the event. Paul Lam Ting-kwok, Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Anna Joubin-Bret, Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), delivered video speeches.

Nie Wenhui stated that as major changes unseen in a century accelerate worldwide, international dispute resolution faces higher demands. The CCPIT Mediation Center will build on professionalism, high standards, and an international orientation. Leveraging the implementation of the Regulation on Commercial Mediation, it will promote convergence between Chinese and international commercial mediation rules, establish world-leading mediation rules and mechanisms, deepen coordination and synergy with legal service institutions across countries and with international organizations, and tell the story of commercial mediation effectively, and thereby continuously enhance the international recognition of commercial mediation.

Themed “Mediation Connects the World · Rules Safeguard Openness · Cooperation Creates the Future”, the Summit was hosted by the CCPIT Commercial Legal Service Center. More than 300 participants from 10 countries and regions and from international organizations attended in person, while over 700,000 joined online via livestream. During the event, the 2026 Hunan Trade Promotion System Professional Training Session on Commercial Mediation and the Changsha stop of the CCPIT Commercial Legal Service “Sanxiang Tour” were held. A work symposium on commercial mediation in the trade promotion system and a research symposium on Hunan’s foreign-related rule of law development were also convened. The Annual Report on Commercial Mediation in China (2024-2025) was released, and research visits were made to enterprises including the Hunan Construction Investment Group.