| ACLA | All China Lawyersâ Association |
| ADR | Alternative Dispute Resolution |
| ALL | Administrative Litigation Law |
| BRI | Belt and Road Initiative/One Belt One Road |
| CAA | China Arbitration Association |
| CASS | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| CCCPC | Central Committee of the Communist Party of China |
| CCDI | Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (of the CPC) |
| CCOIC | China Chamber of International Commerce |
| CCPIT | China Council for the Promotion of International Trade |
| CEPA | Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement |
| CIETAC | China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission |
| CMAC | China Maritime Arbitration Commission |
| CPC | Communist Party of China |
| DR | Dispute Resolution |
| FETAC | Foreign Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission |
| FTAC | Foreign Trade Arbitration Commission |
| HCCH | Hague Conference on Private International Law |
| ICC | International Arbitration Court |
| ICSID | International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| KMT | Kuomintang/Guomindang/Nationalist Party |
| Med-Arb | Mediation in Arbitration |
| NCCPC | National Congress of the Communist Party of China |
| NPC | National Peopleâs Congress |
| PDR | Pluralist Dispute Resolution |
| PRC | Peopleâs Republic of China |
| SAIC | State Administration of Industry and Commerce |
| SCC | Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce |
| SCNPC | Standing Committee of the National Peopleâs Congress |
| SPC | Supreme Peopleâs Court (of the PRC) |
| UNCITRAL | United Nations Commission on International Trade Law |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |