On November 15, 2025, the “Seminar on the Theory of Criminal Procedure Law” and the opening ceremony of “Chen Guangzhong Jurisprudence Pavilion” jointly sponsored by China Criminal Procedure Law Research Association and the Institute of Litigation Law of China University of Political Science and Law were held in Yongjia Academy, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The opening ceremony of “Chen Guangzhong Law Museum” was held in Yongjia Academy, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. From the national judicial practice departments, universities and law institutes, zhejiang province, wenzhou city, yongjia county related leaders more than 100 people attended the activity. King&Capital Law Firm founder and honorary director Tian Wenchang, director of King&Capital Law Firm Zhu Yonghui, and senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, director of the Kyoto Criminal Defense Research Center Liang Yali were invited to participate in the meeting.
Mr. Wang Hongxiang, Secretary of the Party Group and Executive Vice President of China Law Society, Mr. Li Yong, Member of the Party Group and Vice President of the Supreme People's Court, Mr. Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Mr. Shi Weizhong, Vice Minister of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Mr. Jing Dali, President of the China Society of Criminal Procedure Law and former Procurator General of the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate, and Mr. Ma Huade, President of the China University of Political Science and Law, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
Wang Hongxiang pointed out in his speech that Mr. Chen Guangzhong has a foundational position in the history of the development of China's criminal procedure jurisprudence, and has laid the theoretical foundation for the construction of the contemporary criminal procedure system with his outstanding contributions. The inauguration of Chen Guangzhong Law Museum provides a new high-level platform for promoting the construction of China's rule of law and facilitating the theoretical innovation and talent cultivation of criminal procedure law.
The opening ceremony of the museum especially focused on the outstanding contributions of Mr. Chen Guangzhong. Mr. Chen Guangzhong is a native of Yongjia County, Wenzhou City. As a renowned jurist and legal educator in China, and a pioneer and important founder of criminal procedure jurisprudence in new China, Mr. Chen Guangzhong has had a profound impact on the construction of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics in his more than seventy years of academic career. Mr. Chen Guangzhong was the president of the China University of Political Science and Law, the vice president of the China Law Society, the president of the Institute of Litigation Law of the China Law Society, and is now a lifelong professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, and has been honored with the title of “Outstanding Senior Jurist of China”. Mr. Chen Guangzhong has made irreplaceable contributions to the revision of the Criminal Procedure Law, the improvement of the judicial system, and the cultivation of high-level legal talents. The inauguration of “Chen Guangzhong Law Museum” is a concentrated presentation of his lifetime academic achievements and teaching spirit.
Mr. Tian Wenchang (second from the left), Mr. Zhu Yonghui (first from the left) and Ms. Liang Yali (first from the right) participate in the opening ceremony of the Chen Guangzhong Law Museum.
Tian Wenchang (second from left), Zhu Yonghui (first from left), Liang Yali (first from right) at Chen Guangzhong Law Museum
In the morning of the same day, in the witness of many leaders and guests, “Chen Guangzhong Law Museum” unveiling ceremony was successfully held, this venue carrying Chen Guangzhong's academic thinking and the spirit of the rule of law, officially become an important platform for the inheritance of the rule of law culture, and promote academic exchanges.
This activity coincides with the fourth revision of the Criminal Procedure Law is imminent, the experts and scholars gathered in Yongjia, on the criminal procedure law cutting-edge theories and the reform and improvement of the criminal procedure system in the new era and other major issues to carry out in-depth discussions, to promote the rule of law in the process of China's construction, improve China's criminal justice system is of great significance.
Tian Wenchang made a guest speech
In the academic exchange session, Tian Wenchang, the founder and honorary director of King&Capital Law Firm, spoke as a guest. Mr. Tian said that King&Capital Law Firm has gone through 30 years of history, during which it has always received the full support of Mr. Chen Guangzhong, who has always served as a consultant of the firm and responded to all requests. In addition, Professor Jiang Ping, Professor Gao Mingxuan and Professor Ying Songnian have also given consistent support, and this care from the academia to the practical world has been treasured by him.
"Although I was not a disciple of Mr. Chen Guangzhong, nor did I major in litigation law, Mr. Chen was both a senior in academia and my old leader when I taught at the China University of Political Science and Law, and Mr. Chen loved me generously. when I proposed to resign to become a lawyer in '95, Mr. Chen even retained me with a long and earnest speech, knowing that I was upset about my attempts at pedagogical reforms being blocked, and said that he could consider setting up a self-funded department at the He said he could consider setting up a self-financed department at the University of Law as a pilot program to allow me to continue my attempts at pedagogical reform, but I politely declined for fear that it would be difficult to integrate the two systems. In my many years of contact with Mr. I have come to deeply appreciate his pioneering contributions in the field of criminal procedure law, and his academic ideas have set a monument to the development of criminal procedure law in China." Tian Wenchang commented.
Talking about Chen Guangzhong's contribution, Tian Wenchang believes that in just more than forty years, China's criminal procedure law theory has been able to achieve leapfrog development, and the status of procedural law has been significantly improved, and Mr. Chen Guangzhong has made a lot of contributions. The status and role of procedural law in a society directly marks the degree of its rule of law. It is under the impetus of scholars such as Mr. Chen Guangzhong that China's criminal procedure law has broken the constraints of traditional thinking and gradually established a perfect institutional system, an achievement that is particularly valuable in the context of thousands of years of history and more than 40 years of rule of law construction, and is a landmark contribution.
Tian Wenchang gives a guest speech
Finally, Tian Wenchang also expressed his expectations for Chen Guangzhong Law School. He said that the establishment of Chen Guangzhong Law Museum has an important historical and practical value: it is a summary of academic achievements for the past, a promotion of the progress of the rule of law for the reality, and an outlook of the development of the rule of law for the future. It is hoped that after the completion of the Law Museum, not only the litigation law community, but also the entire law community can continue to contribute to the construction of the rule of law in China under the leadership of Chen Guangzhong's academic thinking.
Zhu Yonghui, Director of King&Capital Law Firm, and Liang Yali, Director of Kyoto Criminal Defense Research Center, also participated in the whole event, exchanged ideas with experts and scholars from Peking University, China University of Political Science and Law, Zhejiang University, and other universities, as well as representatives of the judiciary, and shared King&Capital Law Firm's practice experience in the fields of criminal defense, corporate compliance, and intersection of criminal and civil law, as well as the practice and results of promoting the theoretical study of criminal procedure at the forefront of criminal procedure.
As a benchmark law firm in the field of criminal defense, King&Capital Law Firm's participation in the conference by three important representatives is not only a tribute to Chen Guangzhong's spirit of the rule of law, but also an active practice of the development of criminal procedure and rule of law, which demonstrates King&Capital Law Firm's professional influence in the field of criminal procedure, and embodies King&Capital Law Firm's responsibility to actively participate in the rule of law construction, and to promote the integration of academics and practice.
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