KEY POINTS: Air Liquide is a global leader in industrial and medical gases. Its GCH legal team has pioneered a dual-engine AI system that features an “AI legal secretary” and an “NDA automatic review” tool.
The team integrates AI deeply into internal and external workflows. This automation of legal support enhances efficiency and empowers the wider organisation. The “AI legal secretary” utilises a bespoke knowledge base, which is continually updated by the team. Using “preset response instructions”, the tool provides clear, structured answers. It also offers precise guidance on subsequent procedures.
The “NDA automatic review” tool automatically identifies clause discrepancies. It proposes amendments and generates revised agreements with a single click. At the group level, this innovation is projected to help in-house counsel save nearly 1,000 working hours annually.
WINNER REMARKS: Air Liquide Greater China legal team deeply embeds innovative management concepts into its practice and provides precise, efficient and high-value legal support.
With the strong support of AL Group and Greater China Region, under the leadership of General Counsel Ann Chen, Zhuoqian Wu and Erin Wang successfully designed and created two legal AI tools, “AI Legal Secretary” and “NDA Automated Reviewer”. They deeply integrated AI tools, based on large language models, into legal workflows. AI Legal Secretary, by leveraging a precise, self-built knowledge base and pre-set instructions, provides 24/7 instant legal process answers and guided support. The NDA Automated Review tool empowers business teams to efficiently process NDAs with 70% automated review. These two legal AI tools reshape the legal work model, achieving an intelligent leap from passive support to active guidance, and greatly enhancing organisational efficiency. They also won the 1st and 2nd prizes at the AL Group AI innovation Awards.
Roger Bian and Ke An from the legal team also won the “Deal of the Year Award” for their excellent contribution in a strategic and complicated acquisition project in the industrial gas sector.
KEY POINTS: Anjuke is a leading real estate information service platform. Its legal department has established a “legal-driven full-process receivables management system”. This system employs a smart “data + rules + process” model. It successfully transforms passive debt collection into proactive risk control.
The project pioneered a “legal + business” dual-engine rating model. It integrates judicial, public opinion and financial data to build a dynamic credit model. The team established a four-tier response mechanism: “early warning – negotiation – mediation – litigation”. This approach reduced the recovery cycle for overdue accounts by 40%, securing the recovery of hundreds of millions of renminbi annually.
The company’s financial director, Shi Xinhui, says that the system “perfectly combines legal measures with business acumen”. It marks a transition from traditional collection to intelligent risk control, transforming the legal function from a cost centre into a source of profit growth. This fully demonstrates the strategic value of integrating business and law.
WINNER REMARKS: Faced with challenges such as complex payment management for partners, high volatility, and traditional receivable management models that suffer from lagged legal risk control and insufficient business collaboration, since 2021 Anjuke legal team has taken the lead in establishing a trinity intelligent management system integrating “data + rules + processes”. This system has achieved three innovative breakthroughs.
Early integration of legal risk control: Compliance reviews, litigation risk assessments, and external public opinion information are embedded into the client onboarding and payment term approval processes.
Diversified evaluation dimensions: A dynamic credit assessment model is built by integrating judicial data, public opinion data and financial data.
Differentiated handling strategies: A four-stage response mechanism of “early warning – negotiation – mediation – litigation” has been established, reducing the recovery cycle for overdue accounts by 40%. Each year, the legal team facilitates the recovery of hundreds of millions of renminbi in outstanding payments, effectively supporting the company’s steady development in a challenging market environment.
TEAM LEADER: Ge Mengying, head of legal and compliance
KEY POINTS: Beijing Auto AI Technology specialises in vehicle networking and smart cockpit technologies, and its operations involve a substantial volume of patent affairs. The legal and compliance department launched the “AI patent engine” project. This initiative effectively reverses the inefficiency often found in communication between R&D staff, legal teams and patent agents. By utilising AI tools, the department refined communication mechanisms and review processes.
The tool assists R&D personnel in preparing compliant patent documentation. It also supports the legal team during the review stage. The objective is to improve the overall efficiency and quality of patent applications while reducing labour costs.
Yang Laitu, the CEO of the company, commends the project, noting that the use of AI technology significantly optimises the patent application process. Through intelligent review and automated workflows, the system reduces manual intervention. This effectively boosts efficiency and strengthens patent competitiveness, offering significant value for broader applications.
TEAM LEADER: Jiang Jean, associate general counsel and head of legal for Greater China
KEY POINTS: The biopharmaceutical industry faces intense competition. BeOne Medicines chose to break away from the traditional external contract research organisation model to improve cost efficiency and shorten clinical validation times. As the core support for this strategy, the Greater China legal department employed innovative thinking and professional practice. They established an efficient and compliant legal framework for clinical trials.
The team conducted in-depth research into regulations such as the Drug Administration Law and the Civil Code, redesigning core documents including clinical trial agreements and informed consent forms. Consequently, they established a new standardised system of legal documentation.
The team also actively participated in developing internal management standards to ensure SOP compliance. Through professional training, they empowered the newly formed internal team. This successfully shifted legal risk management from passive reaction to proactive embedding. Under this autonomous, efficient and compliant framework, the company’s continuous innovation and steady development in the biopharmaceutical sector are secured.
The team also supported the innovation strategy of the company’s Bio-Island Innovation Centre (BIC). The BIC is a next-generation incubator centred on scientists and entrepreneurs. It aims to empower talent, support startups and drive industry collaboration and resource integration. Unlike conventional partnerships, this model involves equity investment, and integrates complex elements such as asset leasing, technical services and intellectual property licensing.
The team meticulously drafted key legal documents such as the letter of intent. During negotiations, they utilised pragmatic solutions and thoughtful risk assessments. This approach successfully resolved numerous professional challenges and ensured consensus between parties. This project transformed complex commercial concepts into reality, successfully executing the company’s strategy.
WINNER REMARKS: BeOne Medicines is a global oncology company that discovers and develops innovative, accessible treatments for cancer patients worldwide. With a world-class scientific research team, strong global clinical development capabilities, large-scale independent production capacity, and a diversified commercialisation strategy based on science, the company has established an industry-leading operational model and brand reputation that has had a profound impact to patients and society.
Its Greater China legal team is led by Jean Jiang, and consists of 24 team members. It provides comprehensive legal support for drug commercialisation in Greater China and R&D activities in Greater China and the APAC region. It prioritises business focus, pragmatic solutions and thoughtful risk-taking in a challenging industry environment. Through precise professional empowerment and efficient cross-functional collaboration, the team drives co-operation on industry-leading licensing projects, builds a robust internal clinical trial legal framework, and provides legal support for innovative business models and transaction structures. It establishes risk identification and assessment mechanisms to proactively respond to industry changes. The team safeguards the company’s global strategy through innovative thinking and practice.
TEAM LEADER: Chen Yan, vice president, chief compliance officer and general counsel
KEY POINTS: Since 2014, the legal team of Beike Group (Ke Holdings) has been building the “Beike City One-Stop Agreement Management Platform”. For house rental and sales, the platform achieved end-to-end online signing capabilities for agreements, covering the entire process from earnest money deposits and contract execution to amendments and termination. This has led to comprehensive improvements in compliance efficiency and significantly contributes to the company’s carbon neutrality goals.
The team also built a one-stop merchant agreement platform, digitising scenarios such as merchant entry, changes and cancellation. They constructed a merchant risk grading model to predict performance risks. Empowered by AI, the automatic pass rate for financial business compliance approval exceeds 40%, with a zero-risk occurrence rate.
Beike City COO Li Fengyan notes that the platform is an industry-first innovation that plays a vital role in business compliance and data standards.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal and compliance team of Beike Group (KE Holdings) comprises more than 100 professionals organised into specialised teams that include legal business partners, M&A and investment, IP, corporate governance, data compliance, litigation, antitrust compliance, listing compliance and internal control. Under the leadership of the company’s chief compliance officer, Chen Yan, the team has established a comprehensive legal and compliance framework that supports all business units, safeguards business growth and creates value for the company through expert legal counsel.
Embracing technological innovation, the team has developed digital legal solutions such as a one-stop compliance platform and an integrated agreement management system. By leveraging AI and other advanced technologies, these tools have significantly enhanced risk management and operational efficiency, enabling the legal function to evolve from a traditional “firefighting” role into a strategic business partner.
TEAM LEADER: Wang Jin, general counsel, director of the legal and compliance centre
KEY POINTS: Beijing Electronic Holding is a large municipal electronic information company in Beijing. Its legal and compliance centre spearheaded the project to “establish an information system for end-to-end policy management”, achieving full online lifecycle management of policies – from review and release to study, implementation and supervision – through digital means.
The system incorporates modules such as the “management policy review process”, ensuring that rules and regulations undergo legal and compliance review. It also enables dynamic policy management, statistical analysis and online employee training, significantly enhancing management precision.
Wang Haipeng, the deputy general manager of the company, says the system enhances digital management of the entire policy lifecycle. He says it marks a major milestone in strengthening internal control and improving risk management, while also providing a replicable model of digital management practices for peers in the industry.
WINNER REMARKS: Beijing Electronics Holding (BEHC) is a high-tech industrial group based in Beijing specialising in the electronic information industry. Its legal and compliance team is fully committed to the strategy of rule of law-based corporate governance by strengthening five key systems: leadership accountability; risk management; regulatory compliance; compliance management; and organisational operations. The team continually enhances five core capabilities: law-based governance; risk mitigation; value creation; team excellence; and digital and intelligent capabilities.
Guided by its Articles of Association, BEHC has established a modern corporate institutional framework, supported by a robust policy management system that ensures lifecycle management of policies, from formulation and revision to annulment and interpretation. Leveraging information systems, the company seamlessly integrates all aspects of policy management – from review and publication to dynamic updates, training and performance tracking – transforming its institutional framework from a “passive constraint” into a driver of “proactive business empowerment”.
KEY POINTS: Chenxi Holdings specialises in private equity investment within the real estate sector. The legal and compliance department focused on building a comprehensive risk management system, which resulted in zero penalties across 15 special inspections by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Asset Management Association of China, ensuring robust and efficient business operations.
The system includes mechanisms for self-inspection, diverse compliance culture promotion, the standardisation of regulations, and litigation management. Specifically, the team published several inaugural compliance manuals, established a risk co-ordinate map, identified 294 risk points, and drove the revision of 54 systems. They also implemented checklist management and a risk warning indicator library.
Zhou Xinyu, the president of the company, notes that the department “always prioritises systems to prevent risks and lead business development”, building the company’s comprehensive risk management system from scratch and iterating tools to support innovative business growth.
KEY POINTS: China Machinery Engineering Corporation is a leading enterprise in international engineering contracting and equipment supply. Its legal and risk management department launched the “legal service shared centre” in July 2022. This initiative integrates internal resources to provide professional services for major litigation, arbitration, risk events, compliance management and project reviews for member companies.
The project established three sub-centres: engineering construction; compliance risk control; and internal dispute resolution, achieving intensive sharing of legal resources. The engineering construction sub-centre completed legal due diligence across multiple countries. The compliance sub-centre led the compilation of internal control manuals. The internal dispute resolution sub-centre innovated internal arbitration mechanisms, successfully resolving disputes worth hundreds of millions of renminbi.
TEAM LEADER: Zhang Zhen, legal responsible person and deputy general manager
KEY POINTS: China Postal Life Insurance is a key player in the Chinese life insurance market. Its legal and compliance department pioneered the construction of a “smart regulation platform” within the industry. By introducing natural language processing and knowledge graph technologies, they achieved full-process digital management of compliance risks.
Based on structured information regarding regulations and penalties, the platform features smart Q&A, system health checks and risk reporting. This significantly improves the efficiency of regulatory retrieval and operational compliance. Employees can perform one-stop retrieval and dynamic learning through the system. Tasks for internalising external regulations are generated quickly, forming a compliance closed loop. The platform also automatically generates regulatory insight reports and reserves space for future intelligent applications.
LEGAL TEAM: Legal compliance team of risk control and legal department
TEAM LEADER: Xue Ke, legal and compliance director
KEY POINTS: China Securities Credit Investment is an important capital market credit enhancement institution in China. To handle massive business inquiries, the legal compliance team utilised digital tools to create multi-dimensional legal products including research reports, legal compliance video micro-classes, and a series of lectures.
This project transforms legal research into standardised products for internal and external use, significantly reducing communication costs with business departments. Through channels such as WeChat columns and internal learning platforms, the team achieved efficient knowledge output and linkage with the company’s technology business.
TEAM LEADER: Zeng Xueqi, general manager of legal and compliance
KEY POINTS: The legal and compliance department at CMB Wealth Management led the “high-risk business process internal control manual” project. They co-ordinated various departments to formulate lists of high-risk business links and draft internal control manuals, effectively reducing business risks from systems, processes and technology.
The project established a cross-departmental review mechanism, pushing the company’s second and third lines of defence to the forefront. The team proposed and supervised the implementation of more than 100 rectification measures. The department regularly verifies these measures to ensure effective implementation. As of June 2025, 61 internal control manuals have been completed, covering 83% of high-risk business links. These manuals have enhanced internal control management and played a positive role in empowering business development.
KEY POINTS: CNCB Investment is the investment platform established by CITIC Bank in Hong Kong. Its legal team constructed a “1+4 system” for legal risk management. With the “legal risk management measures” as a guideline, linked with four operational specifications, it forms a closed-loop management covering the full lifecycle of legal risks.
This system pioneered a layered governance architecture, allowing for agile iteration of regulations and deep integration of Hong Kong and mainland compliance requirements. By setting mechanisms such as emergency threshold controls and a dual list of external law firms, the team effectively balanced efficiency and risk control. Efficient control tools are also embedded in key processes to reduce management costs while ensuring compliance.
KEY POINTS: Since spinning off from Baidu, the legal and compliance department at Duxiaoman Technology developed a “matrix compliance management architecture”. This comprises six teams for business and nine teams for operation, forming a collaborative management model.
This architecture played a key role in the company’s generative AI strategy, efficiently supporting the launch of important products such as the “Xuan Yuan” large language model. They supported the dual filing for “generative AI services” and “deep synthesis service algorithms”. The team participated in formulating multiple industry standards and helped the company achieve ISO37301 certification. Additionally, they published the Overview of International Legislation on Generative AI, addressing issues such as data ownership, IP and tech ethics in the artificial generative intelligence field.
Vice president Fu Kunying praises the team for its “high cohesion and professionalism”, noting that the innovative architecture ensures efficient resource allocation and precise risk control.
WINNER REMARKS: Du Xiaoman is a financial technology enterprise established through the spin-off of Baidu’s financial services division. As the company’s strategic initiatives deepened, its legal and compliance department developed a “matrix-style” management framework, enabling the efficient allocation of legal and compliance resources and precise risk management through both horizontal and vertical co-ordination mechanisms.
In recent years, the department has led the completion of the “Xuanyuan” large model generative AI service and algorithm dual-filing project, published the monograph International Legislative Review of Generative Artificial Intelligence, and contributed to the drafting of several national and industry standards, including the Guidelines for Compliance Management of General Artificial Intelligence Models. Several compliance domains—such as personal information protection, IP and anti-money laundering—have earned ISO 37301 compliance management system certification.
The department continues to advance the development of a learning-oriented and dynamic organisation, enhancing professional expertise. With the core philosophy of “Together · YING the Future”, it nurtures an exceptional team culture and strengthens a robust compliance framework that supports and protects corporate innovation.
KEY POINTS: HR industry challenges include labour disputes, diverse employment risks and complex cross-regional compliance. The legal and risk control department at Engma Group built the “3+1 legal compliance management platform”, which integrates four subsystems: contracts, accidents, operational specifications and judicial cases, achieving full-process, closed-loop management.
Based on a matrix of “one general provision plus N specific provisions”, the platform captures real-time data on industry, geography and clients. It provides compliance warnings and response strategies, outputting tools such as the “business process risk management map”. This has effectively reduced the rate of labour disputes. The system now provides legal management solutions to external enterprises, transforming the department from a cost centre into a profit centre.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal and risk control department of Engma Group comprises 14 senior members dedicated to risk governance and business value empowerment within the company. The team closely integrates with the characteristics of the human resources industry in which the company operates, focusing on civil and commercial affairs and enterprise employment. It has established an integrated service system combining legal compliance, risk prevention and control, and business empowerment, and has built a full-process risk control mechanism covering pre-event prevention and early warning, mid-event intervention and control, and post-event resolution.
In 2025, in line with Engma’s globalisation and innovation strategy, the team achieved significant results in cross-border business compliance, major project risk control, and the development of industry standards. By establishing standardised processes to lay a solid foundation for operational safety and providing customised solutions to support business growth and value realisation, it has become an important key contributor to the company’s stable development and continuous innovation, and is well regarded by both internal and external partners.
TEAM LEADER: Xie Chenyang, vice president and chief legal officer
KEY POINTS: Foxconn Industrial Internet is a global leader in electronic manufacturing services. Its legal team developed the “sanctions and blacklist screening platform”. By converting legal logic into code, the team transformed dozens of global sanction rules, such as for the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, BIS Entity List and Unverified List, into executable system parameters. This shifts compliance from textual clauses to system-automated rules, moving management from post-event remedy to pre-event prevention.
The platform integrates risk warning, visualisation and closed-loop disposal. It automatically scans high-risk entities during contract signing, improving interception rates. A compliance dashboard integrates business data, allowing the legal team to monitor performance in real time.
Rotating CEO Liu Zongchang says that the platform utilises “legal logic codification” to improve risk-disposal speed by 90%, and reduce manual screening time by 85%, turning compliance into a value engine for global development.
KEY POINTS: Guangzhou Tinci Materials is a leading enterprise in fine chemical new materials. The legal department led the launch of the “contract management system”, using standardised template libraries, online collaborative editing, and integration with electronic signature systems to digitalise contract lifecycle management.
The system established a library of more than 100 contract templates and standard clauses. It supports drafting, reviewing, performance monitoring and archiving. Following implementation, the average approval cycle was significantly shortened, and disputes arising from irregular clauses were effectively reduced.
Director of securities affairs Lu Xiaocui says that the changes brought by the system are clear to all, citing efficient online flow and improved contract quality as evidence of advanced management concepts.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal department is a top-level department of Tianci Materials. It has established a four-dimensional legal protection system covering full-cycle contract management, IP rights protection, standardisation of internal control and compliance systems, litigation and dispute resolution. In recent years, the department has taken the lead in handling a number of major cases on rights protection of trade secrets, effectively restrained infringement acts through a dual-track mechanism of “civil litigation + criminal litigation”, and created strong protection for core technologies of enterprises to recover significant economic losses.
To support the firm’s global strategies, the department provides comprehensive legal support in investment compliance review, cross-border transaction structure design, and contract risk control for overseas businesses in the US, Morocco, Southeast Asia and Europe. It promotes the digital transformation of legal management, standardises and optimises business processes through a contract management system, and enhances operational efficiency and risk resilience.
TEAM LEADER: Zhang Cuimei, general counsel of business
KEY POINTS: The legal affairs department at Haier created a comprehensive legal management platform called “LawTech”. This delivers a digital solution featuring “global connection + risk pre-positioning + intelligent collaboration”.
The platform integrates four major sectors: contracts, seals, intellectual property and entity management. It moves risk identification to the business entry point. Through intelligent review and real-time blocking, the average risk response time decreased from 38 days to under seven days. The platform also features a standard clause library to assist business departments with “self-service compliance”. The team plans to open lightweight modules to more than 100 small and medium-sized enterprises to help upstream and downstream partners improve their management ability.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal department of Haier Group is a professional department with high international standards and sound management systems, including the COE (Center of Expertise) legal team and the BP (Business Partner) legal teams. The Haier legal department has established the legal compliance committee and the intellectual property compliance committee, which play the roles of a “commanding tool”, a “traffic light” and a “gas station” (guiding, supervising and supporting the legal work).
The Haier legal department has built the “LawTech” platform, focusing on four key legal scenarios – contracts, seals, IP and legal person management – based on AI to empower the standardised processes of legal services.
Through ISO 37301 certification, corporate compliance management and governance at Haier reach a leading level in the industry.
The Haier legal department has participated in multiple M&A projects with a total value of more than RMB 30 billion (USD4.23 billion) and has assisted several group companies with IPOs.
KEY POINTS: Harbin Electric International is a large-scale power engineering contractor and equipment exporter. The legal and compliance department pioneered the “1+6+N legal professional management system”. This involves one headquarters centre, legal advisers in six regional headquarters (South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and Central and North Asia), and N key departments.
The system embeds legal resources deep into the business frontline. Through point-to-point service and collaborative mechanisms, it resolves the challenges of global risk coverage and slow response. It provides “precision irrigation” for risk prevention, significantly enhancing support for regional differences.
Deputy general manager Jin Changfan praises the model for reflecting systematic governance and precise policy implementation, enabling a shift from single-point breakthroughs to systematic improvement in legal efficiency.
WINNER REMARKS: As one of China’s earliest international EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractors, HEI has consistently upheld lawful operations and been ranked among ENR’s global Top 100 contractors for years. The legal and compliance department advances “legal-business integration” to safeguard global expansion with professional expertise.
To address multi-jurisdictional compliance challenges, the team innovated the “1+6+N” legal management system – headquarter-led, covering six regional headquarters and key business fields – enabling differentiated and precise risk control. This embeds legal resources at the operational front lines, effectively resolving coverage, responsiveness and accuracy challenges in risk management.
The team engages deeply throughout major project life cycles. In the past year, it achieved 100% legal review coverage for economic contracts, regulations and major decisions, handled more than 100 internal consultations and reviewed thousands of contracts totalling more than RMB10 billion (USD1.4 billion), solidifying a robust legal foundation.
TEAM LEADER: Gao Zeyu, director of the legal and compliance department
KEY POINTS: Hualu Engineering and Technology is a leading engineering design and EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) enterprise. Its legal and compliance team completed the “overseas compliance system construction” project. This successfully translated compliance requirements into a series of executable management regulations.
The most significant achievement is a matrix of regulations covering key risk areas such as bidding, third parties, economic sanctions, finance and safety. By seamlessly embedding compliance control points into core processes, the system balances global unified control with local flexibility, transforming compliance from a cost centre into a value creation centre.
TEAM LEADER: Lin Sencai, operation general manager, general counsel
KEY POINTS: Guangdong Huitian Aerospace Technology is Asia’s largest flying car R&D enterprise. The legal department led the “flying car compliance system construction” project, focusing on system construction, safety implementation, R&D compliance design and industry practice output.
The team drafted core regulations such as the “general outline of data compliance management” and “flying car low-altitude data compliance specifications”. Compliance requirements were embedded into the R&D stage. Based on civil aviation regulations, they mapped the full process of low-altitude data collection, storage and transmission. The team also actively participates in local low-altitude data compliance seminars, sharing experience to support standardisation in the sector.
TEAM LEADER: Li Qi, department head and general manager
KEY POINTS: The Industrial Bank Hong Kong branch is a key offshore institution of China Industrial Bank. The legal and compliance department of the bank promoted the “intelligent innovation application of AML (anti-money laundering) and sanctions risk management system” project. By introducing robots and large language models, the team achieved a leap from rule-driven to intelligent, dynamic risk management.
Overcoming the limitations of traditional systems, this application adapts quickly to market changes. It introduces generative AI into transaction monitoring and sanctions screening, automatically capturing regulations and visualising transaction trajectories. It is expected to reduce the average processing time by 50%.
The team also led the “cross-border operation outsourcing project”, the first practice among Chinese joint-stock banks’ Hong Kong branches to outsource customer product operations to the mainland, fully implemented in February 2025.
The project breaks away from the traditional “standalone closed-loop operations” model of overseas branches by establishing a unified operational platform. Non-core operational processes are streamlined and handled by mainland-based teams, reducing operational costs and improving business response speed. The department proactively established a cross-jurisdictional compliance framework, which also saw the efficient completion of regulatory filings.
TEAM LEADER: Yang Miao, senior director of IP and data compliance
KEY POINTS: Kingsoft Cloud is a renowned cloud service provider in China. Its legal department’s IP and data compliance team established a “global data compliance system” and constructed a comprehensive IP management framework.
The team led the establishment of a security and privacy committee, achieving numerous domestic and international privacy certifications and large model filings. Regarding intellectual property, they manage the entire lifecycle from application and operation to litigation. The number of IP filings has grown significantly, with more than 1,300 authorised patents globally and nearly 450 computer software copyright registrations.
Since 2021, the company has initiated the IP Openness and Co-operation Alliance and the “data asset management and processing ecosystem” patent pool. Due to outstanding performance in IP management and technical innovation, Kingsoft Cloud has been honoured as a Beijing IP demonstration unit and a national IP advantage enterprise.
TEAM LEADER: Julia Shen, general manager (Chinese mainland)
KEY POINTS: Link Asset Management Chinese mainland legal team led a “leasing workshop” project. They developed a leasing management lifecycle mind map, introduced innovative leasing clauses, updated lease templates and formulated supporting SOPs.
The workshop provided comprehensive training to leasing and operations teams, empowering commercial projects to share best practices and effectively connect tenant operation policies.
Lilian Li, the general manager of Chinese mainland asset management, praises the team for providing solid legal protection for Link’s steady operations through professional legal knowledge, a rigorous attitude and good commercial awareness.
LEGAL TEAM: Compliance and risk control department of the legal affairs department
TEAM LEADER: Zhao Lanfang, senior director of compliance and risk control
KEY POINTS: The compliance and risk control department of Mengniu Dairy promoted the “five-in-one digital intelligence project”. Using algorithms and AI agents, they transformed risk control from post-event response to pre-event prediction.
The project pioneered a “four-library management system” (question, risk, strategy and model libraries). It integrates five major functions: compliance, risk, internal control, law, and audit. This solves issues of functional overlap and management vacuums, forming a self-evolving closed loop of the “data – event – strategy – model”. The project successfully upgraded compliance risk control to a digital and intelligent mode.
KEY POINTS: The legal and compliance department at Merchants Union Consumer Finance takes the lead in promoting the development of the data compliance assessment system and strengthens the building of a solid compliance defence through the in-depth integration of technology and management. Tailored to the company’s business scenarios, the system features differentiated assessment processes and incorporates tools such as AI large language models and labelled knowledge bases to enhance assessment quality. It achieves a closed-loop risk management process covering pre-identification of risks, in-process handling and rectification, and post-tracking and evaluation, driving the digital and intelligent transformation of data compliance governance.
The project actively responds to the requirements of data security laws and regulations, reflecting the innovative thinking and practice of the legal and compliance department. Through independent technology, full-process risk management, and digital and intelligent management, it comprehensively improves compliance efficiency and safeguards the steady and sustainable development of the enterprise.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal and compliance department of MUCFC is a team of experts with outstanding professionalism and a commitment to keeping abreast of the times. Anchored in the online consumer finance industry, the team acts as both the guardian of the company’s prudent operations and the enabler of its innovative growth. Adhering to the company philosophy of “precisely grasping policy orientations amid a complex and ever-changing regulatory environment, and attaining the optimal balance between innovative businesses and compliance”, it specialises in compliance management throughout the entire business lifecycle, interpretation and implementation of regulatory policies, product compliance review and data compliance governance. Boasting interdisciplinary expertise that integrate financial compliance and data compliance, the team has achieved a transformation from post hoc remediation to pre-emptive early warning. Having done so, it has fully leveraged the strategic value of legal and compliance work, forging a robust cornerstone for the sustainable development of the company’s business.
KEY POINTS: The legal sharing centre at Midea Real Estate achieved comprehensive sharing and intensive operation of personnel, business, expenses and knowledge through “multi-dimensional legal shared management”.
The centre centralised all legal staff under the parent company and managed expenses uniformly. It promoted case self-handling to achieve a rate of 97.7%, with more than 110 cases per person, saving more than RMB37 million (USD5.2 million) in legal fees annually. Staff were also appointed to manage standardisation and training, drafting 134 standard documents.
Chair Hao Hengle expresses satisfaction towards the project, noting that internal legal efficiency and synergy have improved significantly, forming a systematic combat capability where in-house counsel grow through practical experience.
WINNER REMARKS: The Midea Real Estate legal sharing centre is an integrated management team. It is mainly responsible for the legal work of Midea Real Estate Group and its subsidiaries. The headquarters of the legal sharing centre co-ordinates and manages all litigation cases, non-litigation business such as investment and financing, and the employment of external lawyers, and guides the work of the legal teams of each subordinate unit. The legal sharing centre has dispatched legal leaders and teams to 13 subordinate units and professional subsidiaries to co-ordinate and handle daily legal affairs, case handling, risk prevention and control, and other affairs. The legal sharing centre is independent of other business departments. It handles legal work independently and professionally.
The legal sharing centre covers eight industries and legal fields, including real estate development, property management, business operations, tourism operations, prefabricated buildings, smart home decoration, capital venture capital and intellectual property. This centre currently has 42 staff members, all of whom are senior legal employees.
KEY POINTS: The risk management department at Nyocor is responsible for controlling legal risks and ensuring compliance. The team developed a contract management system by integrating departmental needs to break information barriers.
The system covers drafting, approval, sealing, performance and archiving. Contract data is shared in real time between business, finance and legal departments. This improved operational efficiency and reduced costs.
Committee member Zhao Chao says the system “replaced previous multiple approval processes with digital means”, achieving efficient synergy and setting a standard for contract management in complex new energy projects.
LEGAL TEAM: Ping An Haoyi legal and compliance team
TEAM LEADER: Zeng Ni, head of legal and compliance
KEY POINTS: Ping An Haoyi Investment Management is a healthcare investment platform. Its legal and compliance team implemented the “legal compliance team organisational structure reshaping” project, which shifted the team from a headquarters-controlled model to a subsidiary-autonomous model, enabling rapid frontline response.
The headquarters of the team ensures quality through an “authorisation without liability transfer” mechanism, supported by training, assessment and mentoring. This system overcame the difficulties of varying regional regulatory standards, achieving rapid business response and efficient communication. It significantly enhanced the risk-control capabilities of the whole company, providing strong support for steady business development.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal and compliance team at Ping An Healthcare Diagnostics Center is dedicated to providing comprehensive legal and compliance support to ensure the company’s steady and sustainable growth. The team has successfully delivered several high-impact initiatives, overseeing legal compliance management, enterprise-wide risk control and all legal affairs. By building an internal-control self-inspection framework and realigning the organisational structure, it has achieved full-spectrum, pinpoint oversight of every business line, enabling the company to stay competitively compliant in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.
These measures have markedly improved the company’s ability to anticipate risks and respond swiftly, averting potential losses. The structural adjustments are tightly aligned with corporate strategic objectives, furnishing a solid safeguard for rapid yet stable business expansion. The team’s professional expertise and innovative management practices have not only elevated the company’s compliance standards but also furnished the industry with a replicable benchmark.
TEAM LEADER: Ye Yi, senior legal and government affairs director
KEY POINTS: Tantu Network (Black-Unique Group) is a consumer internet company focusing on the digital economy with multiple brands exceeding RMB1 billion (USD140.9 million) in revenue. Facing severe infringement challenges, the legal team launched the “AI and automation application for IP complaints” project. This project integrates AI and automation to build a “smart defence line” for IP protection.
The project connects industrial logic with technical application, automating the entire process, from infringement identification to platform complaints and result collection. It processes about 3,000 infringement links per month automatically, significantly reducing manual operations while ensuring precision.
Co-founder Mai Jialun says that the project achieved a qualitative leap in the company’s ability to combat infringement, allowing brand value to be better conveyed to consumers.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal team of Black-Unique Group has built a multi-dimensional empowerment system with professional configuration to provide solid support for the company’s development. It has established a matrix-based full-lifecycle risk control system with a “head office co-ordination – business adaptation” approach to manage the company’s diversified businesses, which include e-commerce and apparel. Through policy research and the cultivation of a business mindset, it has developed customised solutions such as IP protection for its apparel business, effectively achieving alignment of legal work with business operations.
The team continuously upgrades its core functional modules, forming three major professional pillars that cover the full-chain protection of IP rights, government-enterprise collaboration, as well as investment and financing compliance. It has also built a closed-loop management model encompassing early warning, in-process control and post-event review.
The team emphasises internal and external value output. Internally, it provides compliance empowerment to all employees through scenario-based training and monthly compliance newsletters; externally, it shapes a professional benchmark through industry exchanges and experience sharing. These efforts fully demonstrate its central positioning as a risk guardian and value creator.
KEY POINTS: As the global asset management industry embraces AI, Taikang Asset Management’s department promoted the “AI empowering non-standard business compliance” project, utilising large model technology to develop a “smart case study tool” and a “dynamic compliance knowledge base”.
The smart tool achieves second-level interpretation of cases, compressing days of analysis into minutes. It generates judgment rules and identifies regulatory trends. The “dynamic compliance knowledge base” restructures laws and regulations into a unified, traceable knowledge base, solving the problem of fragmented information. Future plans include an enquiry robot to improve consultation efficiency.
KEY POINTS: The marketing legal team of Taikang Asset Management developed a “contract intelligent review” system. Based on large language models and rule engines, it transforms traditional manual review into “AI intelligent review + manual review”, achieving full-process online collaboration.
The system uses semantic understanding and risk identification to shorten review cycles. It identifies risk points and builds a reusable review knowledge base. Based on this system, the company also introduced a compliance risk monitoring model, achieving automatic comparison and warning between contract clauses and the latest regulations.
LEGAL TEAM: Compliance management office of the risk control and compliance department
TEAM LEADER: Lin Huan, deputy director of the risk control and compliance department
KEY POINTS: In 2021, TBEA successfully navigated major sanctions challenges from an international organisation. Subsequently, the team turned the crisis into motivation. Led by Lin, a special working group was formed to build from scratch a listed company compliance system meeting international standards.
Composed of professionals from legal, finance and business departments, the group analysed the causes of sanctions and formulated detailed rectification plans. They improved internal systems, strengthened overseas business supervision and optimised processes. The company successfully passed the rectification acceptance, greatly safeguarding its reputation and overseas business.
TEAM LEADER: Zhang Weihua, vice president and chief legal officer
KEY POINTS: UEG is a multinational enterprise focused on oil and gas exploration. Its legal team promoted the “legal intelligent platform construction”, introducing AI clause recognition and creating a cross-language legal document library.
The platform centralises the management of contracts and disputes. It monitors external legal fees, shifting legal work from manual-driven to system-driven. This allows in-house counsel to focus on more valuable strategic tasks. The system includes compliance review processes, specifically setting checkpoints for investment projects along the Belt and Road Initiative. Relevant case and contract data can also accumulate into a database for subsequent work in the system.
Song Yu, the chairman of the company, evaluates the platform as an “important result of the group’s legal digital transformation”, noting it provides risk prevention tools for cross-border business.
KEY POINTS: Weibo is a leading social media platform in China. The legal team constructed the “Weibo AI-generated content (AIGC) legal compliance system”. Accompanying the growth of AIGC products such as “Comment Robert”, the team provided full-process legal support ranging from policy research to product risk assessment.
Since 2023, the team has deeply researched AI laws and policies. They formulated guidance documents for employee use of AIGC tools, and drafted supporting legal statements and agreements for new projects covering data security, intellectual property and user rights protection.
WINNER REMARKS: As a pioneer and leader in China’s social media industry, Weibo has been committed to helping users achieve faster, easier and more diverse social interactions and stay connected with the world since its launch in 2009.
To address compliance challenges in the field of AI, Weibo’s legal team has adopted measures covering regulatory policies, content labeling, technical standards and legal liabilities to build a governance structure and institutional system for AI-generated content, strengthen full-lifecycle data compliance management, enhance algorithm transparency and accountability, and control the risks of IP infringement. These efforts empower business scenarios and layouts, ensuring a robust internal compliance defence mechanism. In 2023, “comment robot” was launched, marking Weibo’s initiative to explore AI-driven social interactions. Its existence not only demonstrates a technical interest but also reflects the challenges of AI in anthropomorphic expression, becoming a unique linguistic phenomenon in online social interactions.
LEGAL TEAM: Capital operation centre of the audit and risk control department
TEAM LEADER: Feng Lingjun, general counsel and chief compliance officer
KEY POINTS: Wenshan Finance and Investment is a state-owned capital investment company in Yunnan. Its capital operation centre participated in formulating the national standard “managing risk in projects – application guidelines” and designed a “risk management – compliance – strategy” implementation framework within the group.
The team translated standards into operational processes, established a “risk compliance point system”, and provided free risk management diagnostics to small and medium-sized enterprises. By combining national standard drafting with internal training, they taught risk management to employees at all levels.
Chair Shen Han praises the team for using the national standard as a pivot to achieve resonance between professional capability, organisational strategy and public value creation.
LEGAL TEAM: Legal group of the smartphone business department
TEAM LEADER: Sun Xiaoyan, legal head of the smartphone business department
KEY POINTS: The legal group of the smartphone business department at Xiaomi built a compliance system for the AI glasses project covering R&D, production and sales, focusing on privacy, AI governance and product liability.
The team established a “minimum necessary + strong prompt” privacy standard and obtained a level 3 certification for information security. They set up an AI review committee and established a cross-departmental compliance middle platform. This ensured the product was fully compliant at launch, with no regulatory notifications or legal disputes in the first six months.
Li Haijing, Xiaomi’s legal and government relations head for the CIS region, praises the team for innovating a full-chain compliance system that both strengthens risk defences and enables commercial success, thereby pivoting the AI glasses industry from “wild growth” to being “rules-driven”.
WINNER REMARKS: The legal team of Xiaomi Group’s mobile phone business consists of 13 experienced legal and compliance professionals. They focus on providing end-to-end legal services for the design and R&D of software and hardware, global supply chain, product compliance management and risk control for Xiaomi Group’s self-developed products such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, wearables, automotive electronics, TVs and chips. The team is committed to safeguarding Xiaomi’s mission of “let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technology”, ensuring that the company’s business progresses steadily within the compliance framework, and facilitating the smooth implementation of the global high-end strategy.
With the implementation of Xiaomi’s “Human x Car x Home” smart ecosystem, user data undergoes complex circulation among multiple terminals, posing new challenges to privacy protection. The mobile phone business legal team takes the lead in establishing a data compliance system for the Human x Car x Home smart ecosystem, and promoting Xiaomi’s ecosystem collaborative model to become an industry benchmark.
