Detailed Description:

Education
Bachelor Shanghai Maritime University, majored in navigation
Graduate Sun Yat-Sen University, majored in international law

Practice Areas
Maritime Law, major collisions, personal injuries and death claims, salvage,bills of lading, insurance, oil pollution, charter parties, international trade, credit,contracts.

Languages
Mandarin, Cantonese and English

Professional Activities
Managing Director of Guang Yu & Co.;
Managing Director of Guangdong Zongxin Law Firm;
Pilot of Guangzhou Harbor, independently piloted more than thousands of Chinese and foreign ships;
Senior maritime engineer;
Chief of maritime section of Huangpu HAS, China;
Deputy Director of maritime division and director of legal division of Guangdong MSA;
Organized or participated in over 600 Chinese and foreign marine accidents investigations;
Has written and compiled teaching materials for training administrative officers and international shipmen;
Be invited by the Committee of Law of the National People’s Congress, the Law Bureau of the State Council, the Ministry of Transport of PRC, the Government of Guangdong Province and the Government of Guangzhou to draft, discuss and modify more than 30 laws and regulations, namely Maritime Code, the Law of Channels, the Law of Ships, the Law of Ports, and Regulations for Vessel Registration, etc;
Be invited by the People’s Supreme Court to participate in discussing maritime judicial reform, in researching and drafting Supreme Court’s Interpretations on Laws;
Published dozens of theories on the nation level professional publications; Obtained awards from Guangzhou Lawyers Association, Guangdong Lawyers Association and China Lawyers Association, Guangdong Institute of Navigation, Philip Yang Liang-yee Scholarship, etc.

Academic achievements
Publications
A Discourse on Legal Issues of Bill of Lading (a series from I to VII, coauthor: Long Yulan );
The Legal Validity of Arbitration Clause of Bill of Lading (coauthor: Long Yulan);
About Administration’s Right to Claim for Loss and Damage Arising Out of Marine Oil Pollution (coauthor: Zhou Chongyu )
On Legal Issues to Assert Party in Fault and the Responsibility for Oil Pollution Damages Caused by Several Vessels (coauthor: Zhou Chongyu).
The Probe for Legal Issues and Practice Arising out of Marine Oil Pollution Disputes (coauthor: Long Yulan)
Legal Issues and Practice of Anti-Dated Bill of Lading and Advanced Bill of Lading (coauthor: Long Yulan)
A Discourse on Legal Issues of Claused Bill of Lading (coauthor: Long Yulan)
On Legal Issues to Current Setting-Up of Maritime Fund and Petitory Action (coauthor: Wang Shenting)
A Modest Proposal for Setting-Up a Ship Mortgage System (coauthor: Li Zhenhai)
On Lawyer Marketing
On Legal Issues to Evidences and Burden of Prove in Oil Pollution Damage from Vessels Cases
Analysis on the Harmony between Human and Marine Environment from Oil Pollution Angle (coauthor: Long Yulan)
Instructions for Maritime Lawyer Profession (coauthor: Long Yulan)
On Deficiency and Improvement of Suggestions for the Rules of Civil Evidence (coauthor: Long Yulan)
The Probe for Some Legal Issues of Maritime Cases and Commentary for Minutes of Second Nation Foreign-Related with Commercial and Maritime Trial Conference (coauthor: Li Zhenhai)
The Probe for Legal Issues and Practices of Oil Spill Contingency Plan (coauthor: Lin Xiaomei, Wang Shenting)
The Probe for Legal Issues and Practices of Oil Spill Contingency Plan (coauthor: Lin Xiaomei, Wang Shenting)
The Probe for Legal Issues of Compelling Salvage and Cleanup (coauthor: Li Zhenhai)


Successful Cases
Successfully practised in such cases as major collisions, personal injuries and deaths claims, salvage, bills of lading, marine insurance, oil pollution, charterparties, international trade, credit, contracts on behalf of the government of Guangzhou, the Ocean and Fisheries Department of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Maritime Safety Administration, Insurance Companies, Wanbao Company, Romania Line of Romania, Kanemasu Co of Japan, P&I of England, ITC of Netherland, Yi Rong Company of Taiwan, Grand Trade Far East Ltd of Hong Kong, Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard and Yunfu Pyrite Enterprise Group Corp, oil pollution of “TANJA JACOB”, Hong Kong arbitration case “WOOYANG HONEY”, collision case of Jiujiang Bridge, etc.

Awards & Professional Listings
Awarded as Advanced Worker by the Department of Justice, Guangdong 1992;
His article Analyses on Guangzhou Harbor Marine Affairs received an honorable mention in the second Yang liang-yee Education Encouragement Prize 1995;
Won the Best Theory Paper Awards 2003 from All China Lawyers Association;
His coauthored article A Preliminary Discussion on the issue of Evidence and the Burden of Evidence of Oil Pollution Claims Caused by Vessel received the third prize of the sixth Yang liang-yee Education Encouragement Prize organized by Guangdong Navigation Association;
His coauthored article A Discourse on Some Legal Issues of Bill of Lading (a series from I to VII) received the second Theory Achievement Prize 2004 by Guangdong Lawyers Association; the third prize Theory Achievement of Guangdong Lawyers Association 2004;
Honored with Professional Achievement Award 2004 and 2005 by Guangdong Bar Association;
Honored as Excellent Lawyer of China 2005 by China Lawyers Association;
His coauthored article Analysis on the Harmony between Human and Marine Environment from Oil Pollution Angle received the third prize of Theory Achievement of Guangzhou Lawyers Association 2006
Coauthored article Ways of Protection for Coastal Navigation Marking won the Business Achievement of Guangzhou Lawyers Association 2007
Awarded the third prize of Theory Achievement by Guangzhou Lawyer Association 2007
Awarded the third prize of Classic Case by Guangdong Lawyer Association 2008
Awarded the Business Achievement by Guangzhou Lawyer Association 2008
On Lawyer Marketing received the third prize of Theory Achievement by Guangzhou Lawyer Association 2008

Senior maritime engineer;
Director Maritime Law Committee of China Lawyers Association
Director Maritime Law Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association;
Member of Shipping Law Committee of CMLA;
Council Member of Guangzhou Lawyers Association;
Excellent Lawyer of China 2005;
Council man of the sixth Guangzhou Lawyers Conference;
Member of Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
Deputy President of West Guangdong Enterprises Development Association
Member of Legal Team for Guangdong Small and Medium Enterprises
Council member of the sixth Guangzhou Lawyer Representative Assembly