On May 16th, 2025, Beijing King&Capital (Zhengzhou) Law Firm successfully held the activity of “Seminar Salon on Difficult Problems of Defending Environmental, Food and Drug Crimes”. This activity specially invited Tang Jianbin, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm and director of Kyoto Food and Drug Law Research Center, Zhang Sijia, deputy director and secretary-general of Kyoto Food and Drug Law Research Center, Shangguan Xubo, secretary of the Party branch and director of Henan Qucheng Law Firm, director of the seventh session of the Zhengzhou Lawyers' Association and director of the Education and Training Committee, Shangguan Xubo, deputy director, senior partner and director of Criminal Practice Committee of King&Capital Deputy Director, Senior Partner, Director of Criminal Practice Committee of Shanghai Jianwei (Zhengzhou) Law Firm, Lawyer Li Xiqing, Standing Executive of Anyang County Political Consultative Conference, Lawyer Li Mengxiang, Partner of Henan Chenzhong Law Firm, Member of the Management Committee, Head of Young Lawyers' Work Department, Lawyer Ma Defang, Partner of Henan Chenzhong Law Firm, Executive Member of Education and Training Committee of Henan Provincial Lawyers' Association, Deputy Director of Education and Training Committee of Zhengzhou Municipal Lawyers' Association. Mr. Xu Kailiang, Director of Criminal Legal Affairs Department of Shanghai Everbright (Zhengzhou) Law Firm. At the same time, many excellent lawyers in the industry were invited to participate in this sharing meeting.

The event was hosted by Mr. Wang Dezheng, Deputy Director of the Zhengzhou Branch of the Kyoto Food and Drug Law Research Center of Beijing King&Capital (Zhengzhou) Law Firm.

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Opening Speech

Mr. Zhang Rui, Executive Director of King&Capital Zhengzhou Branch, delivered a welcome speech at the sharing session. Mr. Zhang pointed out that this activity is the first official activity of the Zhengzhou Branch of King&Capital Food and Drug Law Research Center after its establishment, and he was honored to gather here with colleagues in the legal profession to conduct an in-depth discussion on the difficult legal issues in the field of environment, food and drug knowledge.

Zhang Rui

Director Zhang emphasized that along with the continuous advancement of China's rule of law construction process, the cases in the field of environmental, food, drug and knowledge crimes have shown more and more significant complexity and specialization, and at the same time triggered a high degree of concern in all walks of life. As an important part of the legal professional community, he expects to build an open and inclusive, pragmatic and efficient professional exchange platform through this salon activity.

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Theme Sharing

Discussion on Difficult Issues in Defense of Food and Drug Crimes

Tang Jianbin

Mr. Tang Jianbin shared his expertise on the topic of “Discussion on Difficult Issues in Food and Drug Crime Defense”. The content of his sharing focuses on the two major areas of food crime defense problems and drug crime defense problems, for a comprehensive and in-depth discussion.

Tang Jianbin selected the production and sale of toxic and harmful food and production and sale of fake drugs as the study of the two typical crimes, for the two crimes of the criminal manifestations, the determination of the guidelines and the application of the law and other dimensions, put forward a series of new ideas with a strong focus on the defense.

In the sharing session, Mr. Tang Jianbin cited a number of representative typical cases to explain the key points of food and drug crime defense to the participants in an easy-to-understand way. Through the detailed analysis of the case, for the lawyer group in the actual case handling process, how to use the innovative defense ideas and methods, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties, provides an intuitive and effective reference and guidance.

Difficulties in identifying and responding to criminal cases involving food, drug and environment

Zhang Sijia

Mr. Zhang Sijia conducted a seminar on the difficulties in identifying and responding to criminal cases involving food, drug and environmental issues, and emphasized the importance of criminal defense methodology in practice. Mr. Zhang analyzed the effective defense methodology from the three dimensions of entity, evidence and procedure, and put forward the “three insistences”, i.e., insisting on evidence-centered, fact-based, and law-based, insisting on the modesty of the criminal law, strengthening the evidence, safeguarding the human rights and realizing the rights and interests of the parties in the integration of the criminal composition and the litigation proof, and maximizing the rights and interests of the parties. Maximization.

Zhang Sijia lawyers and then for the pollution of the environment to share the topic of environmental crime, from the pollution of the environmental crime of the legislative history and concepts, the judicial determination of the problem, the review of evidence and the defense of the three aspects of the analysis, Zhang Sijia lawyers combined with their own rich experience, put forward a series of prospective and practical insights for the pollution of the environmental crime of the criminal defense work to provide a new direction of thinking and practice path.

Defense of food and drug crimes

Shangguan Xubo

Mr. Shangguan Xubo, secretary of the Party branch and director of Henan Quecheng Law Firm, conducted a special seminar on the topic of “Defense and Defense of Food and Drug Crimes”. Based on the deep theoretical precipitation and rich experience in judicial practice, Shangguan Xubo lawyers around the “from the evidence of the three sexes to the identification of the subversion of the nature of the evidence of the path” as the core argument, for systematic interpretation and in-depth analysis.

In the process of the seminar, Shangguan Xubo lawyer emphasized that in the defense practice of food and drug crime cases, should strengthen the evidence ability and proof of defense as the key focus. Starting from the three nature of the evidence, dare to illegal evidence, doubtful evidence to put forward reasonable doubt, pay attention to the expert witness system, breaking the chain of evidence of the prosecution, so as to achieve the expected goal of the defense work, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties.

Typical Case Study of Environmental Protection along the Yellow River Basin

Li Mengxiang

As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River carries important ecological and cultural values. Li Mengxiang, partner of Henan Chenzhong Law Firm, carries out in-depth research and discussion on the topic of “Typical Case Studies on Environmental Protection along the Yellow River Basin”. Focusing on the field of environmental protection along the Yellow River Basin, Mr. Li Mengxiang systematically sorted out and introduced in detail the representative criminal law cases in the region, analyzed in depth the criminal law dilemmas faced in the process of ecological environmental protection and governance in the Yellow River Basin, and put forward practical solution paths based on his professional legal knowledge and practical experience, aiming at promoting the rule of law for ecological environmental protection in the Yellow River Basin, which provides a useful reference and reference.

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Talks

Mr. Li Xiqing, Mr. Xu Kailiang and Mr. Ma De Fang expressed their views on the difficult issues of criminal defense in the field of environment, food, medicine and knowledge in the light of their own experience in criminal defense. Mr. Li focuses on the expert opinion in the evidence, and highlights the key role of expert assistants in the criminal defense; Mr. Ma focuses on his own defense cases, and discusses the path to seek effective defense from outside the law; Mr. Xu Kailiang shares two typical cases he successfully defended, which provides direct practical experience for the defense of the crime of environmental, food and drug knowledge.

Mr. Wang Meiwen

At the end of the event, Mr. Wang Weiwen, partner of Beijing King&Capital (Zhengzhou) Law Firm and director of Zhengzhou Branch of King&Capital Food and Drug Law Research Center, summarized the salon activity. He said that with the complexity and newness of the legal issues in the field of environmental food and drug knowledge, it is necessary to further strengthen the professional research on the difficult issues of criminal defense in this field in the future, and this salon activity has built a good platform for exchanges, and in the future, we should continue to strengthen the exchanges and cooperation between lawyers in the industry, hold similar seminars on a regular basis, and expand the scope of participation, so that we can attract more lawyers and legal experts from different regions and firms to participate and share more diversified practices. In the future, we should continue to strengthen the communication and cooperation between lawyers in the industry and organize similar seminars on a regular basis to expand the scope of participation, attract more lawyers and legal experts from different regions and law firms, and share more diversified practical experience and innovative ideas.

From a long-term perspective, this salon activity has built a solid foundation for communication and collaboration in the field of defense of environmental food and drug-related crimes. In the future, King&Capital Food and Drug Research Center and all sub-centers will take this as an important opportunity to continue to deepen the exploration, innovation, and actively carry out practical work, and make every effort to promote new breakthroughs and leaps in this field of legal work.