From November 4 to 5, 2016, the provincial interview assessment examiner training for interns, hosted by the Guangdong Lawyers Association and organized by the Shenzhen Lawyers Association, was held in Shenzhen. Attendees included Chen Xikang, Vice President of the Guangdong Lawyers Association; Wang Tengfeng, Deputy Supervisor; the director, deputy directors, and all members of the Guangdong Lawyers Association Intern Committee; leaders from various city lawyers associations overseeing intern work, directors of intern committees, and relevant secretariat heads. Gao Shu, President of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association; Xiong Songqing, Director of the Lawyers and Notary Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Justice; Vice President Huang Sizhou; and all interview assessment examiners for interns from the Shenzhen Lawyers Association participated in the training. The training was chaired by Zhou Xuan, Deputy Director of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association Intern Committee.

Since the establishment of the Ninth Shenzhen Lawyers Association, the Intern Committee has processed 3,692 applications for intern certificates, 2,625 applications for interview assessments, organized 230 interview assessment sessions, conducted 2,644 interview assessments, and arranged 690 examiner assignments. The 185 examiners of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association have played an active role in maintaining the industry entry standards for the Shenzhen lawyer community.

Director Xiong Songqing, on behalf of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Justice, expressed gratitude to the provincial and municipal bar associations for their strong support of the Shenzhen Bar Association's work related to interns. He pointed out that the Shenzhen Bar Association has achieved normalization, refinement, and informatization of internship interview assessments through a series of solid measures, such as refining and improving the internship management system, pioneering a diversified examiner composition mechanism, and developing an internship management and assessment system. Lawyers play an important role in economic construction, social construction, the comprehensive advancement of rule-of-law governance, and reform and opening-up, undertaking significant missions. The internship assessment work serves as the first line of defense in building the lawyer workforce, concerning the future and development of the entire profession, with arduous tasks and a glorious mission. It is hoped that under the guidance of the provincial department and provincial bar association, with the support of lawyer colleagues across the province, and through the joint efforts of all examiners, the interview assessment work for interns will achieve better and greater results.