On December 5, the College of Humanities and Law of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) held the Conference on the 30th Anniversary of the Development of the Law Discipline and High-Quality Advancement, together with the Forum on Innovative Training of Excellence in Legal Talents in the New Era. The event took place in the Qiuzhen Lecture Hall of the Second Teaching Building on the Changping Campus. Liu Guiqin, Secretary of the CPC BUCT Committee, attended the conference; Liang Yongtu, Standing Committee Member of the CPC BUCT Committee, Vice President of the University, and Dean of the College of Humanities and Law, delivered opening remarks. Huang Jin, President of the Chinese Society of International Law and President of the Chinese Association of International Private Law, was invited to give the keynote speech. The conference was chaired by Zheng Xiuying, Secretary of the College Party Committee.

        Prior to the event, Liu Guiqin, Liang Yongtu, and President Huang Jin held a discussion. Liu Guiqin expressed heartfelt appreciation to President Huang for his long-standing support of BUCT’ s legal education and introduced the university’ s latest strategic initiatives aligned with national needs. Both sides exchanged views on law discipline development and training models for excellence in legal talent in the new era.

        Professor Xu Xianming, Chair of the National Teaching Steering Committee for Law Programs under the Ministry of Education, sent a congratulatory letter. He highly affirmed the remarkable achievements made by BUCT’s law discipline over the past three decades in talent cultivation, discipline development, and social services, and expressed hopes that the College would take the anniversary as a new starting point to deepen discipline feature, advance teaching reforms, strengthen the cultivation of top-tier legal professionals, and contribute to the rule-of-law development of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

        In his remarks, Liang Yongtu noted that over the past 30 years, the law discipline at BUCT has remained closely aligned with the times and deeply integrated with the university’ s chemical-engineering heritage. It has established a distinctive development path featuring interdisciplinary collaboration and coordinated academic–industry advancement, gradually becoming a key pillar of the university’s humanities and social sciences. He further articulated three expectations for the discipline’s future development: Uphold the fundamental mission of fostering virtue, cultivating legal professionals with solid legal grounding and a strong sense of national responsibility. Deepen our interdisciplinary strengths by prioritizing legal research on the chemical industry’s green and low-carbon transition, the development of new quality productive forces, and governance challenges in the AI era, with the goal of building a nationally leading hub for legal research in the chemical sector. Strengthen social service capacity by establishing platforms for “university–local cooperation” and “university–enterprise collaboration” to build a major center for cultivating excellence in legal talent.

        President Huang Jin delivered a keynote speech titled “Legal Education Needed in the New Era.” He offered an in-depth analysis of the orientation, and innovation pathways for legal education from the perspectives of the current era, the aims of university education, the qualities required of future legal professionals, orientation for legal education and approaches to cultivating high-caliber rule-of-law talent.

        In additional remarks, Zhou Youjun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College of Law at Beihang University, spoke highly of BUCT’s achievements and expressed hope for deeper cooperation between the two universities to jointly cultivate interdisciplinary legal talent equipped with both technical and legal competence. Chen Kai, President of the BUCT Law Alumni Association and founder of the China Will Registration Center, reflected on his personal growth from classroom to professional success, attributing the creation of an influential legal service platform to the nurturing he received from his alma mater. He encouraged fellow alumni to contribute their legal expertise to both the university and the nation.

        During the thematic sessions, Li Shouping, Dean of the College of Law at Beijing Institute of Technology; Associate Professor Chen Chuanfa of BUCT; and Zhang Hui, Vice President of the BUCT Law Alumni Association, gave talks on topics including legal education in the AI era, thirty years of BUCT’s law discipline, and alumni–discipline co-development.

        During the main forum, Vice President Liang Yongtu signed cooperation agreements respectively with: Zhang Yuwei, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Political Department, Beijing Dongcheng District People’s Court; Liang Zhiyong, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Political Department, Changping District People’ s Court; Tian Ye, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Political Department, Changping District People’ s Procuratorate. Together, they launched Joint Training Bases for Excellence in Legal Talent.

        In celebration of the 30th anniversary, the BUCT Law Alumni Association presented the commemorative gift “A Boat Bearing the Future.” Representatives including Gong Saihong, Chair of the “Hongfa Teaching Award Fund,” and Chen Chuanfa, Chair of the “Chuanfa Scholarship,” made scholarship and teaching-fund donations to the university. Li Jianhua, Director of the Office for Domestic Cooperation and Secretary-General of the BUCT Education Foundation, and Zheng Xiuying, Secretary of the College Party Committee received the donations on behalf of the university.

        In the “Academic & Career Navigation Forum,” six distinguished alumni from diverse sectors—courts, procuratorates, notary services, legal consulting, law firms, and financial services—shared insights on professional competence, career development, industry trends, workplace thinking, and personal planning. Secretary Zheng Xiuying presented Alumni Mentor Certificates to the speakers.

        In the “Digital-Era Rule of Law Innovation Forum,” experts from Dongcheng and Changping courts and procuratorates, together with BUCT faculty, discussed judicial digitalization, smart justice, and theoretical innovation in the digital age.

        Before the conference, participants watched a commemorative video titled “Thirty Years of Legal Nurturing: Passing the Torch Forward” and enjoyed a poetry recital by law students titled “In Youth’s Name, Celebrating Thirty Years of Glory.”

        The conference marked both a retrospective of the 30-year journey of BUCT’s law discipline and the grand opening of the Forum on Innovative Training of Excellence in Legal Talents in the New Era. Across 18 keynote and thematic sessions, speakers examined challenges and opportunities through the lenses of external inspiration, internal pathways, and educational outcomes, offering profound insights for the discipline’s future development. The event established three new joint training bases, and alumni contributed over 600,000 RMB in scholarships and teaching funds. The College of Humanities and Law will take this milestone as a renewed starting point to further advance its distinctive model of “Science & Engineering + Law” integration and strengthen its foundation for cultivating high-level legal talent suited for the new era.

        More than 600 participants, including leaders from Legal Daily, Intellectual Property Publishing House, relevant university offices, and heads, faculty representatives, and undergraduate and graduate students representatives of the College of Humanities and Law, joined the event both online and offline.