"Shanghai is an important window for international arbitration to reach China and for China arbitration to reach the world," said Alejo Fernandez Parral, an Argentinian arbitrator at the Shanghai International Arbitration Center and a mediator at the Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center.

With firsthand experience of Shanghai's dispute-resolution landscape, he praised the city's efficiency, openness and arbitration-court collaboration — expressing an aspiration to help "promote Shanghai as the preferred destination for international commercial dispute resolution and create a world-class business environment."

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