On the 10^th and 13^th of September 2021, FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference (“FIDIC Conference”) was held virtually with the participants from all over the world. The theme of DIFIC Conference this year is“Investing in Future Infrastructure Governance and Leadership in a Post-pandemic World”, which by its meaning focusing on the worldwide demand for high-quality, sustainable infrastructure in the context of COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

FIDIC Conference invited experts and global leaders from various industries to address different topics around infrastructure at plenary meetings and side events, among which includes Børge Brende (Chairman of the World Economic Forum), Mark Thurston (Chief Executive Officer of High Speed Rail 2), Enzo de Laurentiis (Chief Procurement Officer of the World Bank), and so on.

ZHU Shuying, Chair of Jianwei Research Center, and CHEN Jun, Head of International Practice Department of City Development Law Firm, were invited to participate. On September 10^th, the team members of International Practice Department, WU Weichun, ZHANG Han and CHEN Ningning, also participated in the FIDIC Conference together, engaged themselves in the legal forum of “the Legal Risk for Infrastructure Industry in a Post-pandemic Scenario”.

City Development Law Firm, as a specialized law firm long committed to provide expertise in urban and rural development field, has been actively expanding and scaling its international services in the past decades. Since then, the firm has received unanimous recognition from the industry and clients including the Chambers No.1 ranking in construction law area. In order to cope with the increasing demand for international legal services, the firm brings together multilingual professionals with international backgrounds to provide domestic and foreign companies with comprehensive legal services in fields of international construction project, international trade, and international investment. The firm’s participation in the FIDIC Conference is not only show our active engagement with international construction ally but also forms a significant step to scale up our international legal services.

The FIDIC Conference discussed the challenges faced by the public and private sectors in developing projects and maintaining high-performance infrastructure assets in the context of digitalization, energy transition, climate change, geopolitics, and growing social needs. In the FIDIC Conferences, experts delivered speeches in sustainable infrastructure project preparation, financing and delivering, as well as reviewed the required commercial, industrial and political leadership to achieve sustainable development for the industry.

The challenges brought by COVID-19 pandemic have proved once again that the world needs high-quality and sustainable infrastructure more than ever. In order to create a better future for people across the world, good governance in infrastructure project preparation, financing and delivering, as well as leadership with focuses on integrity, sustainability and inclusiveness, will benefit both international infrastructure and the society.