English version translated by XU Xinyuan (Wayne)

On the afternoon of November 30, 2023, the LANDING Greater Bay Area Salon and the 6th Foreign Business Salon jointly organized by Shanghai LANDING (Guangzhou) Law Office and Shanghai LANDING (Shenzhen) Law Office was successfully held. With the theme of “Combined Efforts of lawyers specialized in Customs Law, Tax Law and Internet Industry: LANDING’s Practice of Integration in the Greater Bay Area”, the salon has invited nearly 40 guests to attend the event on-site, who are industry experts in the field of import and export, heads of legal affairs or customs affairs of enterprises, and senior lawyers. Guests present have conducted in-depth discussions and communications with each other.

The success of the Salon marked the formal upgrade of “LANDING Greater Bay Area Criminal Integration” to “LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration” and the further implementation of “LANDING National Customs Legal Service Integration” in the Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau Greater Bay Area. The LANDING Greater Bay Area Tariff and Customs Law Studio, led by Mr. FENG Haibin, the founding partner of LANDING Shenzhen, focused on tariffs law and customs law, has been located in Guangzhou and will work with LANDING Shenzhen, together with LANDING Greater Bay Area Taxation Service and Internet Industry Legal Service team, to create a shining business card of LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration.

During the event, Ms. SU Liyun, Director of LANDING Guangzhou, and Mr. ZHOU Shichao, Executive Director of LANDING Shenzhen, delivered speeches respectively. Mr. KONG Yunfei, Executive Director of LANDING Guangzhou, and Mr. FENG Haibin, Managing Partner of LANDING Shenzhen, as the leading partners of LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration, shared the relevant information of LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration respectively. Ms. LI Zuoqin, Vice President and Secretary General of Huangpu Customs Brokerage Association of Guangdong (HCBAG), Mr. PAN Yansong, Vice Secretary General of HCBAG, Mr. WANG Jing, Partner of Guangdong Kingbridge Law Firm and Director of the Department of customs-law-related Comprehensive Legal Affairs, Mr. YE Xiaolan, Lawyer of Beijing Jingtian&Gongcheng (Guangzhou) Law Firm, and a number of persons in charge of customs and law in the field of import and export attended the event together. Mr. LIN Jundong, the head of foreign-related business of LANDING Greater Bay Area Tariff and Customs Law Studio, acted as the host of the salon.

Mr. ZHOU Shichao, Executive Director of LANDING Shenzhen, delivered the opening speech. Recounting his own experience of joining LANDING, Mr. Zhou expressed his expectation for LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration, in which lawyers of various professional fields join their efforts to promote the rule of law construction in the Greater Bay Area. He said, “As a lawyer, I am well aware of the importance of the construction of the rule of law, and I am also well aware that the construction of the rule of law in the Greater Bay Area requires the joint efforts of each one of us. I hope that through this event, we can deepen our understanding of each other and jointly discuss how to better promote the construction of the rule of law in the Greater Bay Area."

Mr. ZHOU Shichao, Executive Director of LANDING Shenzhen

Focused on the “Revision of Customs Law and Practice of Criminal-Administrative Convergence of Customs Cases”, Mr. LAN Guozhu, a partner of LANDING Shenzhen office, analyzed the practice of customs cases in recent years and the background and significance of the relevant revision from the legal perspective. Combined with the specific case of recovering the equivalent value of the price after repealing the criminal prosecution of smuggling, Mr. Lan analyzed the practical issues of the criminal convergence of smuggling cases and proposed specific suggestions.

Mr. LAN Guozhu, a partner of LANDING Shenzhen office

Ms. XIE Xiaojing, the founder of LANDING Tax Law team from LANDING Shenzhen, delivered a speech themed “Criminal risk practice of export tax refund for foreign trade enterprises”. Ms. Xie introduced the concept of export tax refund, the behavior of tax refund fraud and effective defense strategy for the crime of export tax refunds fraud.

Ms. XIE Xiaojing, the founder of LANDING Tax Law team and LANDING lawyer

Mr. YE Xiaolan, lawyer of Beijing Jingtian&Gongcheng (Guangzhou) Law Firm, conducted a speech titled “the policy, law enforcement status and derivative issues of IP rights in customs protection”. Mr. Ye began with the status quo and problems of IP rights in customs protection, combined with Customs Law Revised Draft, and explained in detail the history, law enforcement methods and scope of protection of IP rights in customs protection. Mr. Ye also pointed out the current problems and challenges and put forward constructive suggestions on how to improve the customs protection system of IP rights and improve the effectiveness of law enforcement, etc.

Mr. YE Xiaolan, lawyer of Beijing Jingtian&Gongcheng (Guangzhou) Law Firm

Mr. KONG Yunfei, executive director of LANDING Guangzhou, conducted a speech with the topic of “the Internet Compliance Business of LANDING in Greater Bay Area”. Taking the continuous enhancement of legal obligations of Internet enterprises in recent years as the starting point and combined with his own practical experience and cases, Mr. Kong summarized the key aspects of Internet crimes and relevant criminal charges. According to the business characteristics of Internet enterprises, such as online games, live-streaming and e-commerce platforms, he put forward the idea of formulating a special compliance plan for the enterprises to assist in the virtuous development of the Internet enterprises and to promote the development of Internet enterprises in compliance with the law. He concluded by raising his expectations for LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration, believing that the integration of Guangzhou and Shenzhen will provide enterprises with higher quality services in the future.

Mr. KONG Yunfei, Executive Director of LANDING Guangzhou and leading partner of LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration

Mr. FENG Haibin, Managing Partner of LANDING Shenzhen, delivered a speech titled “the Practice and Outlook of LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration”. Combined with three LANDING professional legal service teams specialized in customs law, tax law and Internet industry, Mr. Feng introduced the efforts made by LANDING Shenzhen and LANDING Guangzhou in promoting LANDING’s practice of integration in the Greater Bay Area and the next step for efforts. Mr. Feng said that in promoting the integration of the Greater Bay Area, it is not only about utilizing the synergy and cooperation of the LANDING’s headquarter-branch system, but also promoting the complementary strengths of the entire lawyer industry and integration.

Mr. FENG Haibin, Managing Partner of LANDING Shenzhen and leading partner of LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration

In the free talk session, Ms. LI Zuoqin, Vice President and Secretary General of Huangpu Customs Brokerage Association of Guangdong(HCBAG) and Mr. WANG Jing, Partner of Guangdong Kingbridge Law Firm, shared their views and suggestions on the salon topics.

Finally, Ms. SU Liyun, Director of LANDING Guangzhou, delivered the closing remarks. She said that this Salon not only reflected the concept of “absolute specialization” of LANDING, but also the determination of lawyers in Guangzhou and Shenzhen to improve their professional skills and provide high-quality legal services for enterprises. At the same time, she expressed that she looked forward to making progress together with her peers and providing higher quality legal services for enterprises in Guangzhou and Shenzhen as well as Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Ms. SU Liyun, Director of LANDING Guangzhou

The informative salon has finally come to the end. In the next phase, under the background of China’s vigorous promotion of the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and under the guidance of the spirit of strengthening the rule of law construction in relation to foreign affairs, the vision of “LANDING Greater Bay Area Integration”, which is proposed and practiced by LANDING Guangzhou and LANDING Shenzhen offices, will continue to summarize the experience and promote the integration of the business, team and services among the LANDING offices in Greater Bay Area. We will continue to summarize our experience and promote the integration of business, team and services among our offices in the Greater Bay Area, so as to realize resource sharing, advantages complementing and synergistic development, and to provide more and better legal services for the industry, enterprises and government departments.