Recently, Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm added significant strength: Lawyer Liang Xujing, a specialist in smuggling crime defense, has formally joined as a senior partner. He has long been dedicated to smuggling crime defense and criminal defense and has published extensively; Lawyer Zhu Yuanpeng, an emerging talent in criminal defense, has joined as a partner, focusing on criminal defense, commercial dispute resolution, and labor law practice. The addition of these two new members will further strengthen the firm’s integrated service capabilities in handling major and complex cases, building compliance systems, and resolving comprehensive disputes, providing clients with more precise and efficient legal solutions.
Lawyer Liang Xujing
Specializing in smuggling crime defense, with extensive publications
Lawyer Liang Xujing is a senior partner at Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University and has for many years focused exclusively on smuggling crime defense, handling only smuggling crime cases. He is a member of the 11th Smuggling Crime Criminal Law Professional Committee of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association.
Lawyer Liang is familiar with the defense of various types of smuggling models, including under-declaration, false declaration, parallel trading, direct mail, transshipment, cross-border e-commerce, processing trade manuals, and bonded zone-related cases. Since beginning practice, he has handled more than 100 smuggling crime defense cases across different regions and types, a considerable number of which have had nationwide influence.
Lawyer Liang Xujing is skilled at approaching cases from tax calculation logic, evidence chains, constituent elements of charges, and sentencing circumstances, and he emphasizes preemptive defense during the investigation and review-for-prosecution stages. In many smuggling cases, he has achieved substantial sentencing reductions, such as lowering the evaded tax amount, changing principal-accessory determinations, establishing key circumstances, and altering charge characterization.
Among his representative cases, in a special smuggling case, Lawyer Liang Xujing served as defense counsel for the principal offender. By changing the charge, he successfully excluded more than RMB 20 million in evaded tax and helped secure a reduction of the second-instance sentence from 15 years’ imprisonment to 6 years. In cases such as the ‘Dumbo’ Hermès customs-evasion smuggling case, the foreign liquor under-declaration smuggling case in five Guangdong cities, the cross-border e-commerce false declaration/under-declaration smuggling case under a special campaign, the red oil smuggling case in a certain place in Guangdong, and the piano smuggling case in four places in East China, he achieved favorable results through strategies including tax amount deductions, accessory determinations, unit crime determinations, and exclusion of some charges.
In addition, Lawyer Liang Xujing insists on combining theory and practice. He has authored more than 300,000 Chinese characters on criminal matters and published over 100 professional articles on platforms such as Legal Daily Online, Peking University Law Information Network, China Lawyers Online, and Guangdong Lawyers Magazine, systematically sorting out theoretical and practical issues in smuggling crime defense. He has also been invited multiple times by well-known enterprises and institutions to give presentations on smuggling crime defense, forming a distinct professional brand.
Lawyer Zhu Yuanpeng
Focusing on criminal defense and dispute resolution
Lawyer Zhu Yuanpeng is a partner at Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Guangdong University of Finance and Economics and currently serves as a member of the Culture, Sports and Welfare Working Committee of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association. His practice areas cover criminal practice, dispute resolution, and labor law. He has combined experience in criminal defense and civil and commercial litigation, is skilled at approaching cases from evidence chains and the constituent elements of charges, accurately identifies the focal points of disputes and sentencing circumstances, and emphasizes resolving disputes at the investigation and review-for-prosecution stages. Since beginning practice, he has handled more than 100 criminal and civil/commercial cases, achieving results in many cases such as release on bail pending trial, non-prosecution, sentence modification, and sentence reduction. He also serves as permanent legal counsel to several government agencies and state-owned enterprises.
In the bribery and false litigation case involving Miao (name anonymized), Lawyer Zhu Yuanpeng joined at the second-instance stage and defended from focal points including the identity of the actor, the source of bribery funds, and the attribution of illegal benefits. After the case was remanded for retrial, the sentence was reduced from five years and eight months to three years. In a case involving a medical company suspected of smuggling ordinary goods, he analyzed and excluded nearly RMB 70,000 from the evaded tax determination, and the final determined amount was less than RMB 400,000; he secured a non-prosecution decision at the public prosecution stage. In several other cases, including the theft case involving Jiang (name anonymized) and the case involving Li (name anonymized) for gathering a crowd to disrupt social order, he also achieved favorable results such as conditional non-prosecution and case withdrawal during the investigation stage through precise defense.
Competing on the Green Field, Building a Vibrant Longan
Beyond the rigorous courtroom, Lawyers Liang Xujing and Zhu Yuanpeng are also passionate runners on the football field.
Lawyer Liang Xujing once represented Yingke Law Firm in national football tournaments and won the championship with the team at the Yingke National 2024 Football Championship.
Lawyer Zhu Yuanpeng has been involved in football for 20 years. He was formerly the captain of the Guangdong University of Finance and Economics team, leading the team to two runner-up finishes in the Guangdong Governor’s Cup Youth Campus Football League (University Group) and a runner-up finish in football at the 10th Guangdong Provincial University Games. He is currently the captain of the Guangzhou Dynamo Football Team. He has won third place in the Guangzhou Haizhu Division of the Guangdong Union Cup, the 2021 Zhongteng Division B Football League championship, and honors including the football championship at the 8th Guangdong Lawyers Games, the football team championship at the 9th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Lawyers Games, and the championship at the 3rd National Lawyers’ Football Invitational Tournament for Selected Cities.
Currently, Lawyer Zhu Yuanpeng serves as the captain of the Longan Guangzhou football team, and Lawyer Liang Xujing is also a key member of the firm’s football team. The joining of these two lawyers will inject more passion and vitality into the Longan Guangzhou football team, allowing the philosophy of ‘happy work, healthy life’ to flourish throughout the firm.
Tides surge in the Greater Bay Area; those who row first lead the way. The successive joining of Lawyers Liang Xujing and Zhu Yuanpeng is another important footnote in Longan Guangzhou’s continued gathering of professional talent and deepening of its service capabilities. The two lawyers will continue to refine their expertise in their respective fields, and together with colleagues across the firm, craft every solution with dedication and respond to every trust with sincerity, pursuing steady and far-reaching progress amid the currents of the times and contributing greater strength to the rule of law and client value creation.