On the afternoon of July 7, Shanghai No.3 Intermediate People’s Court (Intellectual Property Court & Railway Court) held a semiannual work conference of 2017 which was attended by all police cadres of the court. At the conference, Mr. Wang Qiuliang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and President of the court made a report titled Striving to Make Qualified Achievements of the Three-Year Pilot Reform by Understanding the Situation, Defining Tasks and Taking Strict Measures in Implementation. The report made a review of the main work of the first half of 2017 and deployed tasks for the second half of the year. As was pointed out by President Wang, under the joint effort of police cadres of the court, trial work in the first half of 2017 was generally conducted properly, in that new progress was made in the judicial reform, new achievements were continuously madein information construction, and the work of team building kept proceeding. For the second half of the year, President Wang pointed out six requirements: first, we should pay close attention to and properly treat the pros and cons in our work. For the advantages, we should strengthen them; while for those short ends, we should fix the problems and make great efforts to bolster the areas of weakness. Second, we should concentrate on the priority of the trial work by always having the general objectives in mind and serving the overall interests of the country. For that, we should strike a positive balance in case acceptance and conclusion of the year, make progress while maintaining the trail quality, promote the work of substantially resolving administrative disputes and urging the persons-in-charge of administrative organs to appear in court, enhance compensation in IP right infringement cases, give effective punishment to smuggle and criminal offences concerning food and medicine safety, and make quality trial of the first batch of important civil and commercial cases including bankruptcy. Third, we should spare no effort in promoting reform, innovation and experience sum-up, continue to explore the reforms in a cross-administrative-divisional trial mechanism and a professional trial mechanism for IP right, promote the reform of a litigation system that is trial-oriented and the reform of a lenient system for criminals who voluntarily confess their offences and accept the punishment, and summarize and publicize reform experiences. Fourth, we should continuously promote, in larger measure, the construction of a transparent and smart court. Efforts shall be made to vigorously promote the “Big Data” strategy, take full advantage of “Internet+”, and actively explore the development of artificial intelligence, according to the requirements of being visible, tangible and measurable. Fifth, we should continuously enhance the cohesive affinity and work capacity of our team, and properly deal with the work of party construction to further promote the integration of the team and create a good atmosphere for cadre development. Sixth, we should take strict measures to ensure the implementation of various kinds of work with the spirit of driving the nail. For that we should work together to do the job well, be diligent and enhance supervision to promotion implementation, with a purpose of getting ourselves well prepared for the 19th National Congress of the CPC. The conference was presided over by Ni Chunnan, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice President of the court. Li Shulan, member of the Party Leadership and Vice President of the court, made a report and analysis of the quality and efficiency of the court’s trial work. QuFurong, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice President of the court, shared the work progress of information construction.