A Brief Introduction to Financial Street Forum
Financial Street Forum, founded at the 20th anniversary of Financial Street’s buildup, has been successfully held for three years since 2012. The forum aims to further promote the international communication and cooperation in world financial industry and increase the global impact of financial brands in Beijing.
Financial Street Forum fully takes Financial Street’s function of financial decisions’ supervision, information exchange promotion and standard-setting. Besides, it also takes advantage of regional highly clustered financial institutions, talents and information. At present, Financial Street Forum has become a top China’s high-end dialogue and communication platform, an important platform where authoritative information was released by state financial regulatory agencies-PBOC, CBRC, CSRC and CIRC-and large financial institutions, a standard platform where views from each side of the industry were shared and the development frontier was realized. Financial Street Forum is a good epitome that the capital city -Beijing- serves on state financial reform and financial institutions’ innovation and development. The wonderful views expressed on the Forum has drew high attention and provoked great repercussion among financial industries domestically and internationally.
Financial Street Forum was hosted by Beijing Municipal Government and supported by People’s Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission and China Insurance Regulatory Commission. Some relevant government leaders attended and delivered speeches at the Forum. They are Chen Yuan, Vice-chairman of CPPCC; Wan Anshun, Mayor of Beijing; Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of People’s Bank of China; Yi Gang, Vice Covernor of People’s Bank of China; Guo Ligen and Wang Zhaoxing Vice-Presidents of CBRC; Yao Gang and Jiang Yang, Vice-Presidents of CSRC; Wang Zuji and Zhou Yanli Vice-Presidents of CIRC;
Chen Xiwen, Deputy-Directorof theOfficeof theCentralLeadingGroupon
Financial and Economic Affairs; Wu Xiaoling, Deputy-Director of The Finance Committee of State Council ; Liu Shijin, Vice-Minister of Development Research
Centerofthe StateCouncil.
Those famous economists who attended the Forum and delivered keynote speeches are Wu Jinglian, a researcher of DevelopmentResearchCenterofthe StateCouncil;
Justin Yifu Lin, formerChief Economistand Senior Vice President of theWorld Bank; Li Yang, a member Monetary Policy Council and Deputy Dean of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fan Gang, Li Daokui, Yu Yongding and Xia Bing, members of Monetary Policy Council.
Leaders from financial institutions participated in the Forum and made speeches. They are Wang Hongzhang, Chairman of China Construction Bank; Chen Yuan, Chairman of China Development Bank; Zheng Zhijie, President of China Development Bank; Li Xiaopeng and Zhang Hongli, Vice-Presidents of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; Tang Shuangning, Chairman of China Everbright Group;
Li Jiange, Chairman of Shenyin & Wanguo Securities, Ltd; Wu Yan, Chairman of The People's Insurance Company (group) of China Limited; Xie Ping, Vice General Manager of China Investment Corporation; Lan Xiaomin, Chairman of China Hua Rong Asset Management Co., Ltd.
Leaders and economists from international financial organizations and institutions were once present at the Forum and gave speeches. They are Lord Sassoon, Chairman of China-Britain Business Council; Timothy D.Adams, President of Institute of International Finance; Klaus Regling, CEO of European Financial Stability Facility; Simon M. Potter, Executive Vice President of the Federal Reserve of New York; Mark Schwartz, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific; UweMichel, Executive Vice President of Allianz SE; Donald Guloien, President and Chief Executive Officer of Manulife Financial; Eric Chaney, Chief Economist of AXAGroup; Christopher A. Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Wei Shangjin, Chief Economist of Asian Development Bank; Bert Hofman, World Bank's Country Director for China，Korea and Mongolia.
Much attention from all circles of society, relevant policy-making departments and research institutions has been attracted by the guest speakers’ analysis and exploration on international and China’s economic situation, by their work summary of present financial sector and by their forecast of domestic and overseas financial industry, which exerts a profound influence on China’s financial and economic policy making and adjusting.