From August 16 to 19, 2026 local time, the **4th "Grudge: Russia and China-Mutually Beneficial Cooperation"**International Forum was held in Kazan, Russian Federation. Wen Guobiao, director of the “Belt and Road” Sino-Russian Legal Business Service Center of Jingsh Law Firm and rotating president of the Northeast Russia General Chamber of Commerce, was invited to lead a delegation to attend this forum. He participated in the opening ceremony, theme sub-forums, official signing and other core links. He delivered professional sharing on Sino-Russian cross-border compliance, intellectual property commercialization, high-tech procurement risk control and other topics, and signed a cooperation agreement with Russian institutions as a representative.
▲The forum site
As an annual platform for the development of economic cooperation between Russian regions and Chinese provinces, the business agenda of this forum includes more than 100 activities, including more than 50 industry thematic meetings, covering industry, investment, transportation and logistics, digital economy, medical and health, education, culture and other key directions of Sino-Russian cooperation. Vice Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) Babakov, Chief Executive of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan Minnikhanov**, Chinese Ambassador to RussiaZhang Hanhuiand other representatives of government departments and business circles from China and Russia attended the opening ceremony.Lawyer Wen Guobiao attended the opening ceremony and the opening ceremony of the Russia-China Expo as a representative of the Chinese legal services industry, and toured the exhibition area, communicating with Chinese and Russian exhibitors and government and enterprise representatives on cross-border investment, economic and trade cooperation, and legal service needs, to further understand the new opportunities for industrial development in the Volga Federal District of Russia and cooperation with China.
▲Signing ceremony
During the forum, Jingsh Law Firm and Jingsh Law Firm’s Russian Far East Cooperation Office signed cooperation agreements with Russian government investment promotion agencies and industry organizations respectively, promoting the extension of legal services from traditional risk protection to front-end links such as investment promotion and project docking, and achieving further integration of legal services with Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation resources.
On August 17, Wen Guobiao, director of the Belt and Road China-Russia Legal Business Service Center of Jingshi Law Firm, and Maxim Kuznetsov, chairman of the Russian Council of Asian Industrialists, formally signed a cooperation agreement in the exhibition signing area. The two parties will rely on their respective resource networks to carry out all-round cooperation in the fields of precise docking of Chinese and Russian enterprises, cross-border investment legal services, and linkage of economic and trade activities, and jointly build a compliant and efficient cooperation bridge for Chinese and Russian enterprises.
On August 18, Wen Guobiao, director of the Belt and Road China-Russia Legal and Business Service Center of Jingshi Law Firm, and Taliya Minulina, director of the Investment and Development Agency of the Republic of Tatarstan, formally signed a cooperation agreement. The two parties will carry out in-depth collaboration around Tatarstan's investment promotion in China, compliance guidelines for Chinese enterprises investing in Tatarstan, full-cycle legal services for key projects, and the preparation of investment legal guidelines, to jointly optimize the business environment for Tatarstan's investment in China and promote the efficient implementation of two-way investment projects.
Lawyer Wen Guobiao said that the "Grudge" forum is an important platform to promote local cooperation between China and Russia and promote exchanges between enterprises from the two countries. Jingsh Law Firm’s “Belt and Road” Sino-Russian Legal and Business Service Center has set up branch centers in Moscow, Vladivostok, and Irkutsk, building a talent pool of more than 2,300 Chinese and Russian legal workers, including more than 700 local Russian practicing lawyers, covering 12 professional fields such as corporate law, cross-border trade, taxation, and intellectual property rights. It can provide Chinese and Russian enterprises with localized legal services covering all of Russia. At the same time, relying on the platforms of business associations such as the Northeast Russia General Chamber of Commerce and the Beijing Heilongjiang Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, the center can further link Chinese and Russian enterprises and economic and trade resources, continue to improve the "legal services + business docking" integrated service system, and provide full-chain legal support for Sino-Russian cross-border investment, trade and technical cooperation.
This participation not only enhanced Jingsh Law Firm’s professional influence in the field of Russian legal services and Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation, but also strengthened communication and contact with Russian local governments, industry organizations and enterprises. In the future, Jingsh Law Firm will continue to deeply explore the Russian legal services market, promote legal services to be better integrated into Sino-Russian investment cooperation, industrial collaboration, and economic and trade exchanges, provide more robust compliance support for the cross-border development of enterprises in both countries, and continue to provide professional legal service guarantees for Sino-Russian local economic and trade cooperation.