1. The South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong) (SCIAHK)
On 28 June 2025, the South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong) (SCIAHK) accepted its first post-reform case: a guarantee dispute between a Hong Kong-invested enterprise and a Chinese mainland guarantor. The filing arrives just four months after the Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Justice issued their joint Opinion on Fully Leveraging the Functions of Arbitration to Serve the High-Quality Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) on 14 February 2025. The new rules establish a fully-fledged "Hong Kong capital–Hong Kong arbitration" mechanism, marking a milestone in China's efforts to provide Greater Bay Area businesses with more flexible, internationally minded legal safeguards and dispute-resolution options.
2. Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration Jiangmen Center(Jiangmen Arbitration Commission)
Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration Jiangmen Center (Jiangmen Arbitration Commission) is an innovative regional arbitration platform and a collaborative effort between SCIA and Jiangmen Municipal People's Government, integrating abundant resources and complementing inherent advantages.
Jiangmen Arbitration Commission is a permanent arbitration institution established by the Jiangmen Municipal People's Government in accordance with the Arbitration Law of the PRC, and now governed by SCIA under the mandate of the Jiangmen Municipal People's Government, together formed SCIA Jiangmen Center (Jiangmen Arbitration Commission).
In virtue of the professional resources and international credibility of SCIA, SCIA Jiangmen Center aims to independently, fairly, and efficiently resolve international commercial disputes, strive to establish a pivotal hub for the resolution of commercial disputes on the western bank of the Pearl River Estuary and provide international arbitration and mediation services to global commercial entities, contributing to the development of a world-class law-based and internationalized business environment in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
On 24 October 2024, a foreign-related case administered by the SCIA Jiangmen Center applied to the Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court of Guangdong Province for assistance in investigation. The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court granted the request and issued an arbitration investigation order. This case marks the first instance nationwide of a court issuing an assistance investigation order to an arbitration institution at the prefectural level.
3. Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration Kashi Center
The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration Kashi Center (hereinafter referred to as "SCIA Kashi Center") was established in 2023. It was founded to provide international commercial dispute resolution services under the Belt and Road Initiative, especially serving the parties from Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia.
The SCIA Kashi Center is set up in Kashi, Xinjiang. It was established by joint efforts on the basis of SCIA Kashi Hearing Center in 2018. With the great support of the PRC Supreme People's Court and the relevant departments of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Guangdong Province, the SCIA Kashi Center is established in accordance with law and administrative regulations. It is an achievement to enhance credibility of China's arbitration and an improvement to the country's arbitration system.
In March 2024, the SCIA Kashi Center held a hearing for an arbitration case. The case involved a dispute over an international freight forwarding contract for the export of Xinjiang agricultural products to a country in West Asia. The parties involved were a transportation company and a supply chain company from Xinjiang. Due to delays in the export transportation of the goods, the two parties had disagreements on the transportation-related costs and thus submitted the dispute for arbitration. The arbitration tribunal consisted of three arbitrators, from Shenzhen, Kashi, and France, respectively. They were familiar with the situation of enterprises in Xinjiang and had rich experience in resolving international commercial disputes. After the hearing, the case was adjudicated in May 2024, and the arbitral award was made efficiently and professionally to help both parties resolve the dispute.
Shenzhen is China's oldest Special Economic Zone, while Kashgar is the country's newest such zone. The establishment of the SCIA Kashgar Center extends the international credibility built by SCIA over more than four decades to Kashgar. The initiative of "International Arbitration Assisting Xinjiang, Serving the Belt and Road," with the SCIA Kashi Center at its core, has been recognized as one of Shenzhen's "Top Ten Rule of Law Events".
4. The SCIA North America Hearing Center
In 2017, the SCIA North America Hearing Center was established in Los Angeles, making it China's first overseas hearing center for international arbitration.
5. Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration Hearing Center - ASEAN (HAIPHONG VIETNAM)
On 14 October 2024, SCIA established the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration Hearing Center - ASEAN (HAIPHONG VIETNAM)
