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Zhiheng News | Dharma Eye View Entertainment · Zhiheng Zhiyuan - Zhiheng Entertainment Law Affairs Department was officially inaugurated

On May 22, 2026, the inaugural meeting of the entertainment law department of

was successfully held. Lawyer Yang Linbai, member of the Zhiheng Management Committee, Lawyer Chen Hong, supervisor of the Board of Supervisors, Lawyer Zhang Ping, director of the entertainment law department, Lawyer Zhang Xiaomei, deputy director, Lawyer Gu Yujia, secretary general, Lawyer Zhou Shuliu, Lawyer Xiao Qinqin, Lawyer Xu Xin and other members of the department gathered at the scene to witness this milestone moment, marking the expansion of Zhiheng's professional legal service territory again, and the legal service in the entertainment field has entered a new stage of development.

The conference was chaired by lawyer Xu Xin.

Group photo of the founding meeting

Lawyer Yang Linbai, member of Zhiheng Management Committee

At the beginning of the meeting, Yang Linbai, a member of Zhiheng Management Committee, delivered a speech on stage and read the appointment letter of the Ministry of Affairs. He said that the entertainment industry is booming, the business format is constantly innovating, and diversified legal demands such as intellectual property rights, artist brokerage, project investment and financing, data compliance, and content risk control have been derived. Legal services in the industry are gradually moving towards complexity and refinement.

Zhiheng integrates advantageous resources to establish the Entertainment Law Affairs Department, which is an important layout for deepening professional development, and will also escort the cultural industry with professional strength to move forward steadily.

The four representatives of Zhiheng Management Committee, Yang Linbai, the supervisor of the board of supervisors, Chen Hong, the director of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department, Zhang Ping, and the deputy director, Zhang Xiaomei, jointly took the stage to unveil the board, announcing that Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department officially set sail.

Zhang Ping, Director of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department

Director Zhang Ping first thanked all the leaders and guests for coming to witness the official establishment of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department, opening a new chapter of "Dharma Vision Entertainment and Zhiheng Zhiyuan". She said that the rapid development of the cultural and entertainment industry urgently needs professional legal services to escort innovation and establish strong rules. The current demand for entertainment law is increasingly professional, complex and cutting-edge. Entertainment law has deeply integrated intellectual property, investment and financing, data compliance, artist brokerage, content risk control and other fields, and has become an important support for the healthy development of the industry.

Based on industry trends and customer needs, Zhiheng integrated superior resources to establish the Entertainment Law Department, which is not only an important milestone in the professional layout of the law firm, but also a solemn commitment to empowering the cultural industry and symbiosis and prosperity with the industry. "Dharma Vision Entertainment" specializes in law and understands the industry; "Zhiheng Zhiyuan" sticks to its original intention and pursues excellence.

In the future, the Ministry of Affairs will continue to deepen and gather professional strength, and strive to become the most knowledgeable legal peer in the cultural industry, providing clients with forward-looking, practical, and comprehensive legal services.

Lawyer Zhang Xiaomei, Deputy Director of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Affairs Department

Lawyer Zhang Xiaomei, deputy director, reviewed the history of the affairs department from the emergence of ideas to the formation of teams. Relying on interest-driven and focused cultivation, the team gradually accumulated a variety of practical cases such as Internet celebrity disputes, data protection, performing arts contracts, etc. She shared her experience with the law of attention and the law of attraction, and frankly said that interest is the source of deep cultivation of the industry, and only by working together can we achieve stability and long-term progress.

She expects all members to work together, help each other, empower each other in professional seminars and business practices, and jointly promote the steady development and growth of the department.

Lawyer Gu Yujia

Lawyer Zhou Shulu

Xiao Qinqin lawyer

Lawyer Xu Xin

Gu Yujia, Secretary-General of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Affairs Department, Zhou Shuliu, Xiao Qinqin, and Xu Xin made speeches one after another, and they all agreed on the development prospects of the entertainment law field. It is believed that this field integrates multiple legal fields such as intellectual property rights, copyright, labor relations, and new media supervision across borders, with continuous improvement of industry norms, a significant shortage of professional talents, and broad development potential.

They all expressed that they will combine their own legal practice experience, give full play to their personal professional advantages, closely follow the industry hotspots to study legal practice, transform industry hotspots into professional capabilities, and work together to develop the entertainment legal service market.

Yang Linbai, a member of Zhiheng Management Committee, issued a certificate to Zhang Ping, director of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department

Lawyer Chen Hong, a supervisor of the Zhiheng Board of Supervisors, issued a certificate to Lawyer Zhang Xiaomei, deputy director of the Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department

Zhang Ping, Director of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department, issued employment certificates to Lawyer Gu Yujia, Lawyer Zhou Shulu, Lawyer Xiao Qinqin, and Lawyer Xu Xin, Secretary General of the Department

Lawyer Chen Hong, Supervisor of Zhiheng Board of Supervisors

According to the current situation of the industry's big data analytics cultural and entertainment legal market, the current domestic cultural and tourism market is huge, and emerging business formats such as short videos, micro-dramas, and AI creation are booming. The ensuing copyright disputes, MCN institutional disputes, artist compliance, and investment and financing legal issues are emerging in an endless stream.

She congratulated the establishment of the new department and raised expectations, hoping that the department would adhere to professional output, create a landmark benchmark case, forge ahead in the entertainment law blue ocean track, and build a professional brand of Zhiheng entertainment law.

The establishment site of the conference

The formal establishment of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department is an important measure for Zhiheng to deepen the specialization and refinement of the legal service track and improve the global legal service system. Based on a new starting point, all the lawyers of Zhiheng Entertainment Law Department will anchor the development wave of the entertainment industry, deepen professionalism, integrity and innovation, escort the industry compliance with the ultimate professional legal literacy, and continue to polish the legal service brand of Zhiheng Entertainment, fully cultivate the Bay Area market, broaden the industry territory, and inject strong legal momentum into the high-quality, standardized and sustainable development of the entertainment industry.