Jiang Ping

Professor Jiang Ping, Chairman of the Beijing Arbitration Commission since 1995, is a prominent legal philosopher, legal educator and social activist in China. In 1948, he was admitted to the Department of Journalism of Yanjing University. Later in 1951 he went to study in the Department of Law at Moscow University and graduated in 1956. After returning from abroad, he started his teaching career at Peking College of Political Science and Law, which changed into China University of Political Science and Law in 1983. Since 1982, he has been the director of the Civil Law Teaching and Research Office, vice-dean of the college, vice president of CUPL (1983-1988) and the president (1988-1990). Professor Jiang is a lifetime professor and doctorate advisor of Civil and Commercial Law. He is also entitled state subsidy for special contribution.

As a major founder of civil and commercial law science in China with outstanding achievements, the professor has made great contributions to the legislation of the Chinese Civil Code and the establishment of the company system and juridical person system.

Professor Jiang has visited the Belgian Ghent University, Hong Kong University, the Second Rome University of Italy, AOYAMA Institute University in Japan and Colombia University in the United States for lecturing, and he has been entitled the legal science honorary doctorate by the Belgian Ghent University and Italian Second Rome University, honorary professor by Peruvian Catholicism University and was awarded the Knight Medal of the Republic of Italy.

In 1988 in the seventh session, Professor Jiang was elected as representative of the National People's Congress, member of the NPC Standing Committee, Deputy Director of the NPC Legal Committee. In these capacities, he took part in the drafting of many legislative documents, including the General Principles of Civil Law, Administrative Procedure Law, Trust Law, Corporation Law and Contract Law, a great contribution in the promotion of the nation's legislation.

Among his many social concurrent posts, the main ones are, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Law Academy, Vice Chairman of Chinese Economic Law Institute, Director of the Beijing Arbitration Committee, President of the Comparative Law Institute of the Chinese Law Academy, and vice president of Beijing Bar Association.

Major works of Professor Jiang include: Legal Science Volume of the Chinese Encyclopedia (member of the editorial board and also the editor in chief), Outline on the Civil and Commercial Law of the Western Countries, New Version of the Corporation Law Course (editor in chief), Juridical Person System (editor in chief), Unabridged Dictionary of the Chinese Judicature (editor in chief), Corpus of the Commercial Law (editor in chief), Pandect of Commercial Law (editor in chief), and Corpus of the Negotiable Securities Practice (editor in chief).

Zhou Jidong

The Executive Vice-Chairman of the Beijing Arbitration Commission, is the director of the Legislative Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipality and the secretary of Party Leadership Group . He has been acting as the Executive Vice-Chairman of the BAC since 1995.

Wu Zhipan

Professor Wu Zhipan, the Vice-Chairman of the Beijing Arbitration Commission, is the Deputy Secretary of the Staning Committee of Party Committee of Peking University.

Wang Liming

Professor Wang Liming, the Vice-Chairman of the Beijing Arbitration Commission, is the Dean of School of Law of Renmin University. He is also the member and convener of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council of PRC, the Chairman of the Civil Law Research Institute of China Law Society, the deputy of to the 10th National Peoples Congress, the member of Law Committee of the National Peoples Congress and counsel of the Supreme Peoples Court. He has been the committeeman (1995-2007) of the BAC.

Li Yanping

Mr. Li Yanping, the Vice-Chairman of the Beijing Arbitration Commission, is the Vice Chairman of Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce.

Wang Hongsong

Mrs. Wang Hongsong is the Committee Member and the Secretary-General of the Beijing Arbitration Commission, Standing Director of Chinese Society of International Law and Vice-President of Chinese Society of International Private Law.

Mrs. Wang, born in March 1953, is a duly-licensed PRC lawyer with a Bachelors degree in economics from Beijing Economics College along with a Master of Laws degree from the University of International Business and Economics.

Mrs. Wang had acted as vice-director, director and research fellow in the Beijing Municipal Government from 1982 to 1995 in the Municipal Legal Affairs Office. During this time, she was mainly charged with the drafting and review of a broad range of legislation in economic and scientific technology fields and the review of administrative lawsuits. She was responsible for the drafting and review of dozens of local legislation and regulations and later assumed responsibility for directing many administrative review authorities in the Beijing Municipality in conducts of administrative review proceedings. She had also organized and directed the training and exchange of experiences among the administrative institutions in administrative lawsuits and administrative review.

In May 1995, Mrs. Wang was in charge of the constitution of the BAC and has been the Secretary General of the BAC and the office director, since its inception in September 1995. She has been engaged in the management of the daily work of the BAC Office since then.

Wu Derui

Mr. Wu Derui is the director of Legal Department and the deputy Secretary-General of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Beijing Branch.

Ma Yuping

Ms. Ma Yuping is the Chief of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal Government. She was the Committee member of the BAC from 2004 to 2007.

Zhu Jiang

Mr. Zhu Jiang is the Senior Judge and Vice President of Beijing High Court. He was the Committee member of the BAC from 2004 to 2007.

Liang Huixing

Professor Liang Huixing is the research Fellow of the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, the Chief Editor of Case Journal of Law, the member of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council of PRC and the Vice Chairman of the Civil Law Research Institute of China Law Society,

Che Pizhao

Professor Che Pizhao is the Vice President of School of Law of the Tsinghua University and the Vice Chairman of the International Economic Law Research Institute of China Law Society.

Dong Chunjiang

Mr. Dong Chunjiang is the Deputy Director General of Bureau of Justice of Beijing Municipal Government, who is in charge of management of lawyer and notary affairs.

Zhang Weiying

Professor Zhang Weiying is the Dean of Guanghua School of Business of Beijing University. He won his Ph.D in Oxford University in 1994. He is the authority in Enterprise Theory in Chinese economics.

Zhang Chunlin

Mr. Zhang Chunlin is the senior expert in Development of Private Economic Sectors of World Bank, Beijing Office. He got his Ph.D. in economics in1990 and studied in Oxford University and University Of Glasgow for three years. He acted as division chief in the National Economic and Trade Commission in 1994-1999. He is famous for his research on reforming of state-owned enterprises.

Zhou Tianyong

Professor Zhou Tianyong is the deputy director of the Research Institute of Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C.. He got the Ph.D. in economy in 1992 in the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and started his teaching career in the Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C. in 1994. His research area includes macro-economics, economic development and increase, labor economics, financial risk, city economics and agroeconomy.