By Yin Jianhua
Afew days ago, the reporter learned from the Hongkou District Financial Bureau that in the first half of 2022, there were 65 new financial enterprises in Hongkou District, with the total number of financial enterprises reaching 2,014 and the asset management scale exceeding RMB7.5 trillion.
It is reported that this year, Hongkou has successfully introduced such licensed institutions as Wanjia Bank, an Internet Direct Selling Bank of Postal Savings, and Shanghai Branch of ICBC Credit Suisse Fund Management Co., Ltd., as well as such key private equity companies as Tianyan Capital, Yiluo Investment, to continue to promote the internationalized and high-end development of the North Bund wealth management highland, further assist the construction of Shanghai international financial center, achieve the further promotion of the wealth management highland and the further breakthrough of financial innovation, and build the core carrier of the North Bund global asset management center and financial technology center.
During the pandemic, in order to give full play to the role of financial services in the real economy and help enterprises ease the financing pressure, the Hongkou District Financial Work Bureau set up an online investment and financing platform to match banks and enterprises. So far, it has carried out credit interaction docking activities with Shanghai Branch of Xiamen International Bank, Hongkou Sub-branch of Industrial Bank and Hongkou Sub-branch of China Construction Bank. It has contacted 19 banks to promote about 70 special anti-pandemic products, effectively alleviating the urgent need of enterprise working capital. At the same time, it will continue to make good use of financial policy support means such as "Xinyi Loan" and "Hongqi Loan", and take measures to lower interest rates, reduce guarantee fees, and speed up the approval process and try its best to reduce the financing cost of small, medium and micro enterprises. Through the government-finance-enterprise financing mode, during the pandemic from March to May, 19 banks in Hongkou issued loans of RMB 2.3019 billion to 346 enterprises in Hongkou.
Continue to carry out online and offline financial forums and roadshows to create a good financial development environment in Hongkou. In the first half of the year, Hongkou held the 2021 Shanghai Financier Award Ceremony and the first activity of the "Chief Roadshow · Building Hongkou Financial Highland" project. The Xinqiao Post Station of Shanghai Financial Science and Big Market and Commodities" seminar guided by the financial work bureau and the quantitative investment seminar specially supported by the financial work bureau were also successfully held online.
In the next stage, Hongkou will continue to base on the development of the regional financial industry, vigorously promote the healthy and stable development of the regional financial industry on the basis of doing a good job in pandemic prevention and control, to welcome the victory of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with practical actions.