As the senior magistrate more than ten years, Guan Jiongzhi strove with Shanghai consular body and the Municipal Council, and carried on untiring efforts in order to retrieve sovereignty of China.

• 关絅之任公共公廨会审官前后十余年，与驻沪领事团和公共租界工部局斡旋，为挽回国家主权而不懈努力。