On December 18, 2020, the signing ceremony of the joint training base for graduate students built by law school and Nanjing Lawyers Association was held in the conference room of Nanjing Lawyers Association. The signing ceremony was attended by Jiao Hongchang, Dean of Law School, Xue Xiaojian, Vice Dean of Law school, Chen Xuandong, Party member and deputy director of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of justice, Secretary of the Party committee of the Nanjing Lawyers Association, and Lin Yao, Secretary General of the Nanjing Lawyers Association. Besides, the leaders of the graduate work office, foreign training office and other relevant departments of Law School, the leaders of Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Justice, Lawyers Association and Jiangsu Wharton Education Group also attended the signing ceremony.

Professor Jiao believes that the Agreement on Building a Joint Training Base for Graduate Students signed by three parties is of great significance to both country and society in talents training. The signing of this Agreement is the implementation of Legal-talents Training Requirement and the Overall Law-based Governance put forward by President Xi. The law school of China University of Political Science and Law, Nanjing Lawyers Association, and Jiangsu Wharton Education Group will join together to fully engage in this cooperation, stress implementation and system guarantee, cultivate outstanding national legal talents, and provide strong legal guarantees for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

Chen Xuandong congratulated on the signing of the Agreement. Standing on the profound changes in the education of lawyers under the great change unseen in a century in the world today, he also expresses high expectations for further carrying forward the spirit of reform and innovation and achieving greater breakthroughs in the new position of the joint training base for graduate students. It is hoped that based on the cooperative position of the graduate education base, the ability of lawyers to serve the economy and society will be further enhanced, the city's lawyer education and training platform will be strengthened, and the city's lawyer education and training effectiveness will be further enhanced.

At the signing ceremony, Professor Xue Xiaojian, on behalf of Law School, signed Agreement on Building a Joint Training Base for Graduate Students with Nanjing Lawyers Association. Then Jiao Hongchang and Chen Xuandong jointly inaugurated the base.

After the ceremony, Jiao Hongchang made an academic report entitled Ruling the Country in Accordance with the Constitution and Ruling by Constitution- An Interpretation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Rule of Law for Nanjing lawyers.