On January 10th, the reporter learned from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Ningxia Commission that CCPIT has issued the "Official Reply of CCPIT on Approving the Establishment of the CCPIT/China Chamber of International Commerce (ICC) Ningxia Mediation Center" to CCPIT Ningxia Commission, making it a sub-center of the CCPIT Mediation Center in Ningxia. It also marks that the mediation work of Ningxia trade promotion system is subordinated to the main channel of CCPIT mediation, and commercial legal service work has reached a new level.

CCPIT/ICC Ningxia Mediation Center ("Ningxia Mediation Center") will provide commercial mediation and other legal services in accordance with the Administrative Measures for the Mediation of CCPIT/ICC and relevant national laws and regulations, focusing on the promotion of legal services and the resolution of commercial disputes in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The relevant person in charge of CCPIT Ningxia Commission said that, aiming to build a high-quality brand of commercial legal services, Ningxia Mediation Center is ready to give full play to the professional advantages of CCPIT in the settlement of foreign-related commercial disputes, and strengthen the matchmaking of litigation and mediation with people's courts at all levels in the autonomous region through the online mediation and litigation coordination mechanism for commercial dispute resolution established by CCPIT and the Supreme People's Court（"SPC"）, so as to set up a coordinated, connected, efficient and convenient working mechanism for the prevention and resolution of commercial disputes, adhere to the fundamental principle of "law-based impartiality, voluntary mediation, high efficiency and convenience, prior prevention, and pilot-first approach", with the purpose of providing high-quality, efficient and flexible mediation services for Chinese and foreign parties. 

Ningxia Mediation Center will take advantage of the online mediation system of CCPIT Mediation Center to provide convenient and efficient online mediation services for Chinese and foreign enterprises; actively cooperate with CCPIT Mediation Center to conduct mediator training, selection and recruitment; and practically and deeply implement the governance of the source of lawsuits in the commercial field, so as to safeguard an open, fair and just economic and trade order, and create a market-oriented, law-based and international business environment.