2014年注定是不平凡的一年。站在新的历史起点,党的十八届四中全会作出了全面推进依法治国的重要决定,开启了建设中国特色社会主义法治体系和社会主义法治国家的伟大征程。全会决定对司法工作作出了重要部署,对涉外法律工作提出了明确要求。面对新形势新任务,最高人民法院及时召开第四次全国涉外商事海事审判工作会议,全面贯彻落实党的十八届四中全会精神,研究部署新时期涉外商事海事审判工作的新理念新 2014 is destined to be an extraordinary year. Standing at a new historical starting point, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee has made an important decision to comprehensively promote the rule of law and opened up a great journey of building a socialist system of rule of law with Chinese characteristics and a socialist country ruled by law. The plenum decided to make an important plan for judicial work and made explicit demands on foreign legal work. In the face of the new situation and new tasks, the Supreme People’s Court promptly convened the fourth national conference on maritime trial of foreign-related commercial affairs to comprehensively implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and study the new concept of new trial of maritime trial of foreign-related commercial affairs in the new period