In the afternoon of September 25, 2013, the launching ceremony of the book “A Glance at Mexican Positive Law” was held at the Mexican Embassy in Beijing. At the invitation of Mr. Jurian Ventura, the Mexican Ambassador to China, Director Li Lin and Deputy Director Mo Jihong attended ceremony at the embassy.

The Ceremony was chaired by Ambassador Ventura, who, in his passionate speech, extended warm welcome to the guests from CASS Law Institute and congratulated them on the launching of the book. In his speech, Director Li Lin thanked the Ambassador for the invitation. He pointed out that, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Mexico, the two countries established a comprehensive and cooperative partnership and the Chairman of CASS, who accompanied President Xi on his visit to Mexico, and the President of National Autonomous University of Mexico jointly signed a Framework Agreement on Cooperation between CASS and National Autonomous University of Mexico. He hoped that, on the basis of this Framework Agreement, CASS Law Institute and its Mexico partners would carry out more meaningful and in-depth cooperation in the field of legal research. Deputy-Director Mo Jihong also gave a speech, entitled For Mutual Legal Exchange in the Coming Future, at the launching ceremony.

The book “A Glance at Mexican Positive Law”, co-edited by Professor Mo Jihong and Professor Arturo Oropeza Garcia, introduces from a comparative law perspective the Chinese and Mexican legal systems, especially the system of positive law of Mexico. The CASS Law Institute sent a delegation to the National Autonomous University of Mexico for an academic visit in 2008, on the event of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relation between China and Mexico. This book is one of the results of the academic visit.

Also attending the event were Mr. Cesar Camacho, the President of the Mexico’s ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and Mr. Efran Calvo Adame, the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Mexico.