Top financial regulators to attend 2025 Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai

The 2025 Lujiazui Forum will be held in Shanghai from June 18 to 19, themed on "financial opening-up and cooperation for high-quality development in a changing global economy", local government officials said in a news conference on Friday.

Central financial regulators will release a set of major financial policies during the forum, Zhou Xiaoquan, executive deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Finance, said during the conference.

Inaugurated in 2008, this year's Lujiazui Forum will come to the 16th edition. Officials from the country's top financial regulators such as the National Financial Regulatory Administration and China Securities Regulatory Commission will attend the forum. Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People's Bank of China, and Zhu Hexin, PBOC's deputy governor and administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, will give keynote speeches at the forum.

Eight plenary sessions will be held during the forum, touching upon the topics of financial opening-up, coordination of global monetary policies, financial sector's support for new quality productive forces, among others.

The forum will also set three special activities centered on the construction of reinsurance market, fintech and financial legal governance.

More than 70 industry leaders from more than 10 countries and regions will deliver speeches during the forum, including those from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Hungarian National Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

According to Zhou, continued financial opening-up and cooperation are vital to enhancing Shanghai's competitiveness and influence as an international financial center.

The city is now home to 1,782 licensed financial institutions, among which one third are foreign-invested. A total of six futures products are directly accessible to international investors, such as yuan-denominated crude oil, low-sulfur fuel oil and copper. Shanghai also accounted for 47 percent of all the cross-border renminbi settlement made in 2024.

Themes of eight plenary sessions of the 2025 Lujiazui Forum

1. Financial opening-up and cooperation for high-quality development in changing global economic landscape

2. Strengthening coordination of global monetary policies

3. Advancing the stable development of the capital market

4. Deepening the cooperation and development between Shanghai and Hong Kong as international financial centers

5. Financial sector to support the development of new quality productive forces

6. AI to empower financial reform and innovation: opportunities and challenges

7. Improve the equilibrium and accessibility of inclusive finance

8. Complete the policy, standard and product systems for green finance