On the 6^th of July, 2019, the academic forum on Rule of Law Development and Judicial Reform of Lanzhou University: Substantive Reform of Court Trial: Problems and Prospects, sponsored by Lanzhou University Law School and Lanzhou University Judicial System Research Center and co-sponsored by Xirun Law Firm of Gansu Province, was held in Conference Room 201 of Yifu Science Museum. Scholars, law officials, teachers, master's students and undergraduates from universities such as Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Guangzhou University, Southwest University of Politics and Law, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China University of Politics and Law, Jilin University, Shandong University, Supreme People's Procuratorate, Gansu Provincial Committee of Politics and Law, Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court, Gansu Xirun Law Firm, participated in the forum with a total of more than 100 participants.

The opening ceremony of the forum was presided over by Bai Rongjing, director of the Judicial System Research Center of Lanzhou University. Sha Yongzhong, Deputy president of Lanzhou University, made a welcoming speech and welcomed experts to Lanzhou University for discussion. He also pointed out that this forum built a bridge for us to discuss the materialization of court hearing and the realization of judicial justice. It is of great significance to discuss the way of realizing the materialization of court hearing and to make use of the materialization of court hearing and to promote the basic path of ruling the country by law. Yang Linkun, Director of Social Science Department, read out the Notice on the Establishment of the Judicial System Research Center of Lanzhou University, and Zhang Jianwei, Professor of Law School of Tsinghua University, delivered a speech on behalf of the invited experts.

In addition to the opening and closing ceremonies, the forum was divided into three units for academic discussion.

The topic of the first unit was 'the representation and essence of the substantive trial', with Professor Zhang Jianwei from Tsinghua University Law School as the keynote speaker and Liu Hui, deputy editor of the editorial department of the Journal of China University of Political Science and Law as the moderator. Six experts and scholars, including Professor Sun Yuan, from Faculty of Law of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and other five scholars or judges, serving as interlocutors. Professor Zhang Jianwei first interpreted the concept of 'substantialization of court trial' in a humorous way of expression; secondly, he put forward the purpose of promoting the substantialization of court trial from the perspective of the Supreme Court; finally, he put forward personal suggestions and made prospects for the development of substantialization of court trials.

The topic of the second unit was 'the vacancy of exclusionary rule of illegal evidence - the procedural risk perspective of linking administrative and criminal evidence'. Professor Zhang Zetao from Guangzhou University Law School served as the keynote speaker, and Dong Kun, a researcher of the Procuratorial Theory Research Institute of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, acted as the moderator. Professor Li Changsheng, School of Law, Southwest University of Politics and Law, and other six experts and scholars, as well as judges, served as interlocutors. Professor Zhang Zetao made keynote speeches on the following three aspects: the empirical data and statistical analysis of administrative evidence adopted by courts in criminal proceedings, the practice form of administrative law enforcement procedures replacing criminal investigation and evidence collection, and the establishment of a sound system for linking administrative evidence with criminal evidence.

The topic of the third unit was 'Empirical Research on the Substantive Reform of Court Trial', with Professor Zuo Weimin of the School of Law of Sichuan University as the keynote speaker and Professor Jiang Zhiru, Associate Professor of the Center for Judicial System Research of Lanzhou University as the moderator. Professor Guo Shuo, from Beijing Jiaotong University Law School, and other six experts and scholars, as well as judges, served as interlocutors. Professor Zuo Weimin expressed his views on the substantive reform of court hearing in Chengdu from the perspective of empirical research. His talk was mainly around the 'substantive interpretation of the norms and theoretical assumptions of the trial', 'the empirical study of the substantive reform of the trial of local courts', 'the prospects of the substantive reform of the trial of local courts'.

The closing ceremony was presided over by Professor Bai Rongjing, Center of Judicial System Research, Lanzhou University, and summarized by Professor Zhang Zetao, from Guangzhou University Law School.