By Yin Jianhua
On December 15, the 19th China International Financial Forum was held at the North Bund of Hongkou. Attending the meeting were Tu Guangshao, Member of the National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chair of the Shanghai New Financial Research Institute, Lu Ming, Deputy Party Chief of the Hongkou District Committee and District Governor, Guan Xiaojun, Deputy Director of the Municipal Local Financial Supervision Administration, Jiang Jianqing, President of the China Europe Lujiazui International Financial Research Institute and Former Chair of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Zhou Qiangwu, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of BRICS New Development Bank, and officials of many Chinese and foreign banks.
Founded in 2004, the forum has successfully held 18 consecutive annual meetings. With the theme of Green Financial Innovation Serving High-quality Development of Real Economy, the forum invited senior executives of domestic and foreign financial regulators, commercial banks, financial leasing and financial technology enterprises, industry experts and scholars to make in-depth discussion in the forms including video speeches, live keynote speeches and guest dialogues, centering on the topics including the digital transformation of banks, helping the development of digital economy, new models, new ecology and new prospects of financial leasing, carbon neutrality, green financial development, smart financial development in the digital era, to boost the development of the financial industry and improve the application of financial services.
Lu Ming said that the focus and entry point of the forum are highly consistent with the strategic positioning of the ongoing study and implementation of the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress in Hongkou, accelerating the development and construction of the North Bund, serving the high-quality development of the real economy and creating an important display window of Chinese path to modernization with the high-energy financial innovation of "internationalization, characteristics, digitalization and greening".
In recent years, with the goal of building a global asset management highland, Hongkou District has firmly grasped the two development opportunities of deepening the opening up and the application of financial science and technology. It has made long-term contributions and continued efforts. The financial industry has achieved the development process from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong. The North Bund has become an important part of Shanghai's international financial center. At present, more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign financial institutions have gathered in Hongkou.
Lu Ming expected the forum, as a high-end think tank, to take root in Hongkou, cultivate deeply in Hongkou, continue to empower the North Bund, so as to provide more guidance and help for accelerating the building of an important display window of the Chinese path to modernization.