China and Finland held a celebration and a seminar in Shanghai Monday to mark the 10th anniversary of the signing of a judicial cooperation agreement.  

Judicial officials, including Minister of Justice Zhang Fusen and his Finnish counterpart Johannes Koskinen, hailed the two countries' cooperation, vowing to further it.

Following a memorandum on Sino-Finnish judicial cooperation signed in 1995, the two sides conducted 30 exchange and cooperation projects, 27 visits and 16 workshops and the two sides agreed to further cooperation on support to legislation, criminal law, prison control, prevention on cross-border crime and legal aid.

(Xinhua News Agency May 17, 2005)