Chen Jining, Yi Gang, Li Yunze, Yi Hui, Man Gongzheng attended, and the 14th Lujiazui Forum opened in Shanghai. Finance | Shanghai International Financial Center | Forum
The 14th Lujiazui Forum, with the theme of "Global Financial Openness and Cooperation: A New Driving Force for Economic Recovery," opened in Shanghai this morning. Shanghai Municipal Party Secretary Chen Jining attended the opening ceremony and the first plenary session and delivered a speech. Yi Gang, President of the People's Bank of China, and Yi Huiman, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, attended and delivered keynote speeches. Li Yunze, Director of the State Administration for Financial Regulation and Co rotating Chairman of the Forum, and Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Mayor, and Co rotating Chairman of the Forum, jointly launched the "International Board" of Shanghai Reinsurance and issued the "Implementation Rules on Accelerating the Construction of Shanghai International Reinsurance Center".
Chen Jining said that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China mapped out a grand blueprint for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization.
Chen Jining said that we will focus on improving the ability and efficiency of financial services to the real economy. We will firmly guide financial institutions to innovate products and services that cater to the needs of the real economy and enterprises, increase credit allocation for the development of key industries, opening up key regions, and major project construction, and increase financial support for the digital, intelligent, and green transformation of enterprises. Vigorously develop inclusive finance, supply chain finance, technology finance, and green finance. Strive to promote a virtuous cycle of technology industry finance. By leveraging the advantages of an international financial center and an international science and technology innovation center, we will provide greater financial support to promote higher levels of innovation breakthroughs and drive higher quality industrial development. We will support the development of angel investment, entrepreneurial investment, and equity investment in Shanghai, encourage more patient capital, long-term capital to invest in early, small, and hard technology, and strengthen innovative full chain financial services. Actively and prudently deepening the reform and opening up in the financial sector, taking the implementation of national strategic tasks as the driving force, focusing on improving the level of financial internationalization, promoting the construction of international financial asset trading platforms, and building global asset management centers and international reinsurance centers. Continuously creating a competitive and attractive financial development ecosystem, improving the legal environment for finance, building a highland for financial talents, improving the social credit system, and strengthening financial risk monitoring, early warning, and response and disposal.
Yi Gang said that achieving the "dual carbon" goal is a broad and profound economic and social transformation. Green finance can help solve difficult problems and play an important role in achieving the "dual carbon" goals smoothly.Establish carbon reduction support tools to support financial institutions in issuing carbon reduction loans, driving carbon reduction emissions to exceed 150 million tons. At present, China's balance of domestic and foreign currency green loans and green bonds rank among the top in the world. Shanghai has proposed the goal of building an international green finance hub, which can play a greater leading role in the field of green finance in the future. The People's Bank of China will continue to support the construction of the Shanghai International Financial Center, build an international financial asset trading platform, accelerate the development of green finance, and help Shanghai play a more important role in serving the overall economic and social development of the country.
Enhance the effectiveness of serving the real economy, increase financial support for new consumption and service consumption, strengthen financing guarantees for investment, and optimize the environment for private investment and financing. Create a new situation in financial regulatory work, comprehensively strengthen institutional supervision, behavioral supervision, functional supervision, penetrating supervision, and continuous supervision, strengthen coordination between central and local supervision, punish serious illegal and irregular behaviors, and improve institutional arrangements and working mechanisms. Take the initiative to prevent and control financial risks, prudently resolve existing risks, and resolutely curb incremental risks. Deepen reforms in key areas to promote development, optimize institutional supply, and actively promote the reform, abolition, and interpretation of laws and regulations. We will unwaveringly adhere to the opening-up of finance to the outside world, and promote the expansion of opening-up in areas such as wealth management, green finance, elderly care and health, and asset management.
Yi Huiman said that he would adhere to the "two combinations", unswervingly take the road of modern capital market development with Chinese characteristics, and better help Chinese path to modernization. Timely introduce policy measures to further support high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement in the capital market, increase product innovation and institutional supply, more accurately and efficiently support technological innovation, and assist in the construction of a modern industrial system. Adhere to the coordinated development of investment and financing, make every effort to provide investors with real and transparent listed companies, promote industry institutions to improve their professional capabilities and service levels, vigorously promote long-term investment and value investment, and better serve the diversified financial needs of residents. Adhere to the main responsibility and business of supervision, promote the legal inclusion of all types of securities and futures activities in supervision, coordinate openness and security, focus on improving regulatory efficiency, and firmly guard the bottom line of risks. The China Securities Regulatory Commission will deeply implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, assist Shanghai in further improving its financial market system, product system, institutional system, and infrastructure system, and strongly support the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center.
During his keynote speech, Gong said that today's Shanghai has basically been built into an international financial center that is in line with China's economic strength and the international status of the renminbi.To aim for world-class, continuously strengthen the global resource allocation function, focus on expanding high-level financial institutional openness, promote efficient financial market interconnection, and gather high-level financial institutions. We must adhere to the origin of finance, serve the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy, and make every effort to promote financial innovation throughout the entire process, serve the transformation and upgrading of industries, and serve the high-quality development of market entities. We need to optimize the business environment, continuously strengthen the empowerment of financial technology, the construction of financial rule of law, and provide financial talent services. At the same time, we must firmly adhere to the bottom line of financial security. I believe that the insightful insights shared by all the guests will definitely bring new inspiration and reference for the high-quality construction of Shanghai International Financial Center.
At the forum, President of the New Development Bank and former President of Brazil, Rousseff, and Vice President of the People's Bank of China and Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Pan Gongsheng, delivered keynote speeches.
Shanghai leaders Zhu Zhisong, Zhang Wei, and Xiao Guiyu, as well as Chairman of the National Social Security Fund Council Liu Wei and Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission Fang Xinghai, attended. Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Jie Dong, presides over the event.
Officials in charge of the national financial regulatory department and financial institutions, leaders of relevant international financial organizations, domestic and foreign financial markets and financial institutions, leaders of relevant departments and units in Shanghai, and representatives of entrepreneurs, experts and scholars from universities and research institutions attended the forum.