On April 12 in the morning, Liaoning University witnessed the founding meeting of Liaoning Law Services Federation, which was also regarded as Forum of Supply-side Structural Reform in Legal Education. Leaders, who were from Liaoning Education Department, Liaoning Intellectual Property Office, Liaoning Law Academy and several other departments, attended the meeting. LNU’s ZHOU Haobo (Party Secretary), PAN Yishan (President), SUN Shiguo (Vice President) and other 600 members also attended it.

In the meeting, the chairman of Federation PAN Yishan gave a report on the preparation work of the federation, including details about its structure, rules and agreements, development orientation, cooperation model and operation ideas. Besides, all the members voted for the Constitution of Liaoning Law Services Federation, and signed the agreement, with an executive office born in the meeting.

Party Secretary ZHOU Haobo introduced in the meeting about the development of LNU as the initiative of this Federation, and shared a specific future plan about its later work. Commissioner of the Provincial Intellectual Property Office LI Changchun addressed the meeting on behalf of the leading group and talked about the key role of law being played in the field of intellectual property, and the expectation for this new type of win-win college-enterprise union.

The Federation was initiated by LNU as its executive unit, and it is one of the 15 trial college-enterprise organizations set up by the education department of Liaoning. The federation just means a firm forward step of educational supply-side structural reform led by Liaoning Education Department, and shows that it is more and more common for the local education to serve for Liaoning’s economy.

The federation owns 119 launching members, including law colleges, scientific research institutions, law offices, notary offices, offices for judicial expertise, agencies of intellectual property and various companies.

Several major media have reported the meeting and the forum, including China News, the reporter station of Xinhua News Agency, and Liaoning TV Station.