The Supreme People's Court (SPC) held a symposium on the development of research bases in Beijing on July 18. Zhang Jun, the SPC president, laid out the requirements for the building of research bases at the meeting. 

Zhang emphasized that the collaboration between the SPC and higher education institutions to establish research bases is a practical measure to promote shared development of judicial practice, legal education and legal theory research by facilitating the integration of theory, education and practice. 

He urged all research bases to uphold the correct direction, and fully leverage their roles as judicial research think tanks, platforms for exchange and cooperation and talent development bases. He called for in-depth research on key issues related to deepening judicial reform and modernizing judicial work, as well as the timely transformation of research results, making new and greater contributions to the building of a modern socialist country in all respects guided by the rule of law. 

Yang Wanming, vice-president of the SPC, delivered a speech at the meeting. 

Yang highlighted the significance of building research bases and called on all such bases to fully leverage the unique advantages of China's socialist political, legal and judicial systems to further deepen research on the philosophy, mechanisms, systems and management of the people's courts, and continuously produce research results with theoretical value, practical significance and substantive effects. 

At the symposium, representatives from the SPC, its partner units, research bases as well as experts and scholars exchanged views on their work.