The 2026 Lujiazui Forum, the annual financial industrial gathering, will be held in Shanghai from June 17 to 18, officials said during a municipal news conference on Friday.
Ding Xiangqun, minister of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, will attend the forum's opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech. Over 70 guests from China's central financial regulatory bodies, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Hungarian National Bank, among others, will participate and share their insights.
This year's forum will mainly address the new challenges and opportunities amid the changing global financial landscape and the accelerated development of emerging technologies.
It will also touch upon the topics of global cooperation in financial governance, completion of the capital market, financial synergy between Shanghai and Hong Kong, financial support for technology advancement, integrating new technologies in financial services, inclusive finance and sustainable financial innovation.
Shanghai, which has held the forum since 2008, has been deepening its financial supply-side reform over the past few years to better facilitate companies' outbound reaches, Zhou Xiaoquan, executive deputy director of the Financial Commission Office of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, said on Friday.
