On the afternoon of October 22, 2018, Professor LI Bin, the Vice Dean of our Law School, Associate Professors ZHANG Xiaoting and MA Jianyin, the Director and the Deputy Director of the Education and Management Center for Juris Master, CAO Songru and WANG Yingya, the Teaching Secretaries for Juris Master, and Teacher JIANG Wenjing, the Teaching Secretary of Doctor of Laws went to Deheng Law Office (Zhuhai) (hereinafter referred to as "Deheng Zhuhai") for an informal discussion and attended the signing ceremony of the "Internship and Practice Teaching Base" jointly built by our school and Deheng Zhuhai. Our school plans to recruit 50 full-time JM (Non-LLM) in 2019 and train them in Zhuhai. Deheng Zhuhai will become our first base for internship and practical teaching in Zhuhai, providing internship positions for undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students of Beijing Normal University.
Lawyer TAN Weihua, the Senior Partner of Deheng Zhuhai and the Executive Director of the Management Committee, Lawyer GUO Lei, the Senior Partner and Management Partner, Lawyers QU Hong and ZHANG Hong, Partners as well as Director of the office SHENG Jiwen attended the signing ceremony.

Lawyer TAN Weihua expressed warm welcome to our teachers. He pointed out that our school's selection to set up an internship and practical teaching base in Deheng Zhuhai was recognition and support for Deheng Zhuhai's teamwork and professional skills. This cooperation was conducive to promoting and realizing the benign interaction between legal theory and practice, and strengthening the cooperation between legal education and practical departments in training outstanding legal talents.

Vice Dean LI Bin introduced Beijing Normal University and its Law School, and thanked Deheng Zhuhai for setting up and providing a platform for our students to enhance their legal practice skills and improve their ability to solve legal problems. All teachers and students of the Law School would actively focus on the goal of training applied talents, deepen the reform of higher education, and strive to train more applied talents.

Subsequently, Lawyer GUO Lei introduced the development of Deheng Zhuhai since 2018, ranging from the professional team of the office and humanistic brand building to public welfare activities and academic achievements, and exchanged and shared the culture of the office and recent work trends. At the same time, she conveyed the identification of lawyers with the office's cultural concept.

Associate Professor ZHANG Xiaoting said that she appreciated the love and persistence of Deheng Zhuhai's lawyers for the legal profession, and she hoped to carry out more in-depth cooperation and exchanges with Deheng Zhuhai, employ excellent lawyers of the office as part-time instructors of the Law School, and bring more practical knowledge to our students in the future.

Associate Professor MA Jianyin analyzed the partial disconnection between the theoretical knowledge and practical work ability of the school, and hoped that the cooperation between the law office and the school would bring more practical teaching contents to the Law School. As for the Law School, we would also make greater efforts to train practical talents. It is expected that more students will get training and gain progress in Deheng Zhuhai in the future.

The discussion, based on characteristics and experience of both sides, was conducted in terms of how to strengthen cooperation and development for mutual benefit. Lawyer QU Hong, a Partner of the law office, said that theoretical knowledge of law should not be ignored while lawyers involve actual cases and that they would strengthen communication with teachers in our school in the future. Lawyer ZHANG Hong, a partner of the law office, said that he expected the 50 graduates trained by our school in Zhuhai to come to Deheng Zhuhai for internship. In order to better mentor, he had the motivation to further study and pursue deeper progress.

Lawyer Qu Hong, a Partner of the law office

Lawyer ZHANG Hong, a Partner of the law office
Finally, Professor LI Bin, on behalf of our school, and Lawyer TAN Weihua, signed the "Agreement on Co-construction of Practice and Practical Teaching Base for Law School of Beijing Normal University".

