On December 26, 2018, the School of Law of University of International Business and Economics held a grand conference on the publication of Business and Economic Law Review and the Law Journal Development Seminar. More than 40 guests gathered at UIBE to celebrate this academic event. They were from China Law Society, China Association for Periodical Legal, China Legal Science, Chinese Journal of Law, The Jurist, Peking University Law Journal, Studies in Law and Business, Tsinghua University Law Journal, Tribune of Political Science and Law, Law Review, ECUPL Journal, Global Law Review, Modern Law Science, Law Science Magazine, Oriental Law, Administrative Law Review, China Social Science Excellence, Journal of China University of Political Science and Law, Law and Economy, Chinese Law Review, China Review of Administration of Justice, CNKI, Peking University Law infoChina and legal department of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade as well as many other departments.

(Photo of the conference)

Business and Economic Law Review is a legal professional journal that was approved by the University of International Business and Economics in March 2018. With the current international economic and trade situation changing and trade protectionism on the rise, the multilateral trade system is facing enormous challenges. In this context, University of International Business and Economics, School of Law have reviewed the situation and, with the support of relevant authorities, timely established the high-end academic platform of Business and Economic Law Review to strengthen research on international economic and trade law and domestic economic and trade legislation. Business and Economic Law Review adheres to the correct direction of public opinion and the direction of running journals, pays attention to the frontiers of domestic and foreign economic and trade laws, and focuses on the dynamics of international economic and trade legislation, the latest achievements in domestic economic and trade law research, and the rule of law in "One Belt and One Road" countries, etc. It also carries out international academic exchanges, and serves the major strategy of building and facilitating a new open economic system and the basic strategy of comprehensively governing the country according to law.

(Meeting Photo)

The opening ceremony was host by Professor Shi Jingxia, dean of the School of Law of University of International Business and Economics and the editor of Business and Economic Law Review, Professor Zhang Wenxian, member of the Party Group, vice-president and director of the Academic Committee China Law Society and Editor-in-Chief of Law and Social Development, Professor Wen Jun, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of University of International Business and Economics, Ms. Wang Liping, secretary-general of China Association for Periodical Legal, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Legal Science and Zhang Naigen, vice-president of Chinese Society of International Economic Law and professor of Fudan University Law School delivered speeches at the opening ceremony.

(Professor Shi Jingxia)

On behalf of the school, Professor Wenjun, deputy secretary of the UIBE Party Committee, welcomed the guests and introduced the background and process of the publication. She expressed her gratitude to the leaders and experts who supported the publication, saying that UIBE will strongly support the law school to abide by the academic standard and support academic development. She further believed that we will do a good job in Business and Economic Law Review and hoped that the experts who participated in the conference will share their experiences on how to handle the academic characteristics of Business and Economic Law Review.

(Deputy Secretary Wenjun)

Vice President Zhang Wenxian, on behalf of China Law Society, gave a speech on the status of the journal peers and the author of the inaugural issue. He fully affirmed the positioning and characteristics of Business and Economic Law Review and pointed out the new changes and new situations of the international economic and trade pattern. He believes the issue of economic and trade law raised higher requirements. He hoped that Business and Economic Law Review would innovate in running the journal, consolidate the characteristics of the journal, pay attention to major realities and theoretical issues, and do a good job in the publication. Mr. Zhang also introduced the basic working ideas of the current China Law Society's evaluation of the development of journals, which attracted the attention of the journalists.

(Vice-President Zhang Wenxian)

Professor Wang Liping,Deputy Editor-in-Chief on behalf of China Association for Periodical Legal, expressed her congratulations on the publication of Business and Economic Law Review. She welcomed the new force in the legal journal industry. She also pointed out that the legal journal should seriously study and understand the speech of President Zhang Wenxian. We must adhere to the correct political direction and value orientation, adhere to the scientific academic orientation, always bear in mind the role of legal journals in leading and serving, and play a greater role in deepening the rule of law.

(Wang Liping, Deputy Editor-in-Chief)

Professor Zhang Naigen spoke on behalf of the author of the inaugural issue. He thanked Business and Economic Law Review for providing a high-end academic platform for high-quality international economic and trade rule of law research results. He believes that because the journal can continue to strengthen the demand for opening up to the corresponding countries, this platform can combine scientific research results with the country's policy needs. At the same time, he hoped that Business and Economic Law Review will become a forum for promoting the exchange of academic and practical circles and improving the level of China's economic and legal research.

(Professor Zhang Naigen)

After the speech, Vice President Zhang Wenxian, Deputy Secretary Wen Jun, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Wang Liping, Professor Zhang Naigen, President of UIBE Publishing House Yu Xingfa and Dean Shi Jingxia jointly unveiled Business and Economic Law Review.

(Unveiling ceremony)

After the opening ceremony, the conference focused on the two topics of "The Academic Positioning and Evaluation Mechanism of the Law Journals" and "Selection and Characteristic Innovations of Law Journals". Researcher Zhang Guangxing, Deputy Editor of Chinese Journal of Law and the researcher of Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, presided over the discussion of the first section.

(Researcher Zhang Guangxing)

Professor Wang Xixin, Editor-in-Chief of Peking University Law Journal and professor of Peking University Law School believed that the evaluation mechanism is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, certain evaluation mechanisms can guide legal research, but at the same time, if the evaluation mechanism is biased in guiding or consequence, the impact will be relatively large; and hoped to learn from CNKI, the factor of the number of documents should be objectively reflected in the publication impact factor, rather than one-sided pursuit of impact factors and reduce the number of posts.

(Professor Wang Xixin)

Professor Xu Mingyue, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Law Science and professor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, discussed the impact of the publication evaluation mechanism on universities and small subjects, and analyzed the balance between inviting famous writers and training young scholars. For the development of journals, Professor Xu proposed that the school as the organizer should attach great importance to it. The existing publication evaluation mechanism is an external evaluation system. The school can establish its own internal evaluation mechanism at the same time, and regard it as the core publication of the school under the premise of ensuring quality to encourage the enthusiasm of the outstanding authors of the school; if you do not pay attention to it, it will affect the development of the publication to a certain extent.

(Professor Xu Mingyue)

Researcher Zhou Hanhua, Editor-in-Chief of the Global Law Review and the researcher at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, fully affirmed the design and editing techniques of the publications. The Chinese and English annotations were standardized and beautiful; he also introduced his own experience in running the magazine, and later compared differences between Chinese Journal of Law and Global Law Review, he proposed to locate the theoretical and practical orientation of the publication, aim at the major real needs of the country, identify the theoretical intervention, and publish high-quality legal research articles that achieve high integration of domestic and international research.

(Researcher Zhou Hanhua)

Professor Gao Shengping, the Responsible Editor of The Jurist and Dean of the Law School of Renmin University of China, affirmed the column design of Business and Economic Law Review, focused on how to reflect the characteristics of the journal in terms of column design and topic selection. He recommended to strengthen contact with the practice community, speed up the publication, and respond to social needs in a timely manner.

(Professor Gao Shengping)

Wang Chunlei, Deputy Editor of the editorial department of CSSE, has proposed a more reasonable evaluation mechanism to create a more relaxed environment for the publication of self-features and adherence to academic missions. In the evaluation mechanism of academic journals, the administrative thinking should be abandoned, and the evaluation of journals should return to the evaluation itself and return to the objective academic state.

(Wang Chunlei, Deputy Editor)

Professor Chen Jingshan, Deputy Editor of Journal of Law of China University of Political Science and Law, affirmed the practice of publishing legal education articles in Business and Economic Law Review. She believed that it has positive significance for the construction of school disciplines and suggested that schools should give political support on new publications.

(Professor Chen Jingshan)

Xu Yuheng, Deputy Editor and Editorial Director of Tsinghua University Law Journal, fully affirmed the content of the articles published in Business and Economic Law Review, especially indicating that Xing Zhonghe and He Qipeng have novel topics and reflect the academic style of the publication. Xu Yuheng also hoped to adhere to the magazine's style, column design and topic selection standards.

(Xu Yuheng, Deputy Editor)

Liu Yuqiong, Deputy Editor of Law Science Magazine, introduced the column design features of Law Science Magazine, and thought the academic journals of law should be good at discovering and promoting the academic development of young scholars.

(Liu Yuqiong, Deputy Editor)

Chen Yan, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Rule of Law of China Law Society, introduced the work of law counting and CLSCI, and believed that the evaluation of research results should be balanced with inheritance and innovation.

(Associate Researcher Chen Yan)

Professor Kou Li, Editor of the Tribune of Political Science and Law, gave a comprehensive and detailed comment on the speeches of the spokespersons. She hoped that Business and Economic Law Review would be based on its own academic characteristics and refer to the current evaluation mechanism to run a good publication.

(Professor Kou li)

Dr. Chen Minguang, Responsible Editor of China Review of Administration of Justice, introduced the background of the China Review of Administration of Justice and the characteristics of the trial practice, and proposed that a diversified system should be implemented for the evaluation of publications.

(Dr. Chen Minguang)

Deputy Editor Zhang Guangxing made a section summary, analyzed the impact of the current publication evaluation system on young authors, disciplinary developments and new publications, and analyzed the underlying reasons behind it.

Professor Mei Xiaying, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Business and Economic Law Review and the professor of the school of law of University of International Business and Economics, presided over the discussion of the second section, "Selection and Characteristic Innovations of Law Journals".

(Professor Mei Xiaying)

Professor Wang Renbo, Editor-in-Chief of the Tribune of Political Science and Law and professor of Chinese University of Political Science and Law, suggested that as a journal editor of law, it should have academic appreciation, adhere to the academic standard, focus on the frontiers of major theories rather than the frontiers of society, be good at discovering valuable research works, discover young scholars with potential, and abide by academic missions.

(Professor Wang Renbo)

Professor Ma Changshan, Editor-in-Chief of the ECUPL Journal, introduced how academic journals organize topics and select excellent manuscripts. Emphasis should be placed on cultivating young authors to maintain academic connections and emotions between journals and authors.

(Professor Ma Changshan)

Professor Wen Shiyang, Deputy Editor of Studies in Law and Business and professor of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, believed that academic journals should clearly define their own direction, pursue academic taste, demonstrate economic and trade characteristics, and display and lead academic achievements.

(Professor Wen Shiyang)

Professor Wang Qingbin, Deputy Editor of Administrative Law Review and Professor of China University of Political Science and Law, introduced the contradictions and confusions in the publication evaluation and draft selection of new publications, and proposed that young scholars should be explored and promoted to solve the problem of submission and drafting and guarantee the quality in various ways.

(Professor Wang Qingbin)

Jiang Guohua, Deputy Editor of Law Review and professor of Wuhan University Law School stressed that it should adhere to the orientation of running a journal and the characteristics of running a journal. The journal should have a sense of historical responsibility, a sense of academic responsibility, and a sense of social responsibility. The journal should serve academics and serve the society at the same time.

(Professor Jiang Guohua)

Professor Wu Yiyang, Deputy Editor of Oriental Law, believed that at the beginning of the publication, it is necessary to meet the highest standards in the industry with solid support, and should be organized and selected around social hot issues and academic frontier issues.

(Professor Wu Yiyang)

Professor Xing Huiqiang, Editor-in-Chief of the School of Finance and Economics and the professor of the School of Law of the Central University of Finance and Economics believed that the founding journals of law schools should be recognized from the height of discipline construction. Young people in the college should be trained in the editorial department, learn to compile articles, and learn to write articles. Concurrently, it is very important to develop the law school. Also concurrently, the publication of the magazine should be based on the power of the whole school, invest as much manpower and material resources as possible, use all kinds of academic resources, and encourage young writers such as doctoral students and lecturers to write.

(Professor Xing Huiqiang)

Ms. Yuan Fang, Executive Editor of China Law Review, introduced his own experience and understanding on how to adhere to the positioning and characteristics of journals, and made very specific and detailed suggestions on how to use the new media to disseminate publications.

(Yuan Fang Executive Editor)

Ms. Zhang Si, Ministry of Party and Government Resource Cooperation of CNKI, introduced the dissemination of legal journals in the past five years, and believed that digital communication provided new tools for journals, which can help innovate the mode of running journals, improve the efficiency of running journals, and improve the quality of journals.

(Ms. Zhang Si)

Ms. Guo Ye, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Peking University Law infoChina, affirmed the setting of the publication column, thematic planning, and fund support, and made suggestions on how to use the new media and third-party platform applications to expand the impact of the publication.

(Editor Guo Ye)

Mr. Li Qingming, Editor of Chinese Review of International Law and a researcher at the Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, put forward his own views on the topic selection. He believed that the boundary between international law and domestic law is not so clear under the new situation, and it is necessary to overcome the boundaries of the discipline and boldly draft the manuscript.

(Associate Researcher Li Qingming)

Professor Bian Yongmin, Editor-in-Chief of Business and Economic Law Review and the professor of the School of Law of University of International Business and Economics, introduced various problems encountered during the publication process and hoped to continue to receive support and assistance from the participating experts.

(Professor Bian Yongmin)

In his concluding remarks, Professor Wang Yonggui, Director of the Research Department of University of International Business and Economics, expressed his sincere gratitude to all experts for coming to University of International Business and Economics to support the construction of the legal discipline and the development of the new journal Business and Economic Law Review. He also said that the School Research Office will strongly support the development of Business and Economic Law Review and make it truly a platform for scholars.

(Director Wang Yonggui)

Dean Shi Jingxia expressed her gratitude to the experts at the meeting, saying that she would fully digest and absorb the valuable opinions of the participating experts, adhere to the academic standard, and run the publication well. With numerous participants and high-quality speeches, the conference enjoyed a warm and full atmosphere, and the relationship between the balanced publication evaluation system and the characteristics of the publications was discussed in depth. Business and Economic Law Review will abide by the mission of the founding journal, adhere to the academic standard, and respond to the needs of the country, and strive to establish a high-level research platform for economic and trade rule of law at an early date, and better serve the academic research of law and the needs of the country's economic and trade rule of law.