On the morning of December 12, CUEB held the inauguration ceremony for the Beijing Finance Lab and the launch of the Beijing Financial Development Report . Guests from government departments, universities, and technology enterprises gathered to witness the lab’s establishment and explore new pathways for high-quality financial development.

Wu Weixing, Deputy Party Secretary and President of CUEB, extended warm welcome and sincere thanks to all attendees. He emphasized that China is currently at a crucial stage in comprehensively advancing the strategy of building a strong financial nation. CUEB will fully leverage its distinctive educational features and disciplinary strengths, enhance organized research, and integrate high-quality resources both on and off campus to provide solid intellectual support and talent assurance for the financial development of Beijing and China. The establishment of the Beijing Finance Lab creates an open think tank platform, which deeply integrates “government, industry, academia and research.” The Beijing Financial Development Report released at the conference represents the preliminary systematic research findings of CUEB’s finance discipline team regarding the Beijing financial reform, innovation, and development. The university will collaborate with all sectors of society to contribute CUEB’s expertise to the thorough implementation of capital “Five Major Areas of Finance” and to promote capital high-quality financial development.

Wu Weixing delivers a speech.

Xu Fang presides over the opening ceremony.

Ma Yun, Deputy Director of the Foreign Exchange Research Center of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, delivered a speech. He congratulated CUEB on the establishment of the Beijing Finance Lab, recalled the original intent and phased achievements of the strategic cooperation agreement signed between the Foreign Exchange Research Center and CUEB, and expressed anticipation for further collaboration and high-level research outcomes. Li Tao, Vice President of the Central University of Finance and Economics also congratulated CUEB on the lab’s establishment and looked forward to promising prospects for inter-university collaborative innovation and jointly building a financial academic ecosystem.

Ma Yun delivers a speech.

Li Tao delivers a speech.

Yin Zhichao introduces the Beijing Finance Lab.

Subsequently, witnessed by guests including Jin Zhuang, President of Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics; Han Xu, General Manager of Beijing Financial Holdings Group Co., Ltd.; Duan Jiaxi, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of China Rongtong Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd.; Miao Jian, Deputy President of the Beijing Branch of Agricultural Bank of China; and leaders from the Research Office of the Beijing Municipal Financial Regulatory Bureau, the Beijing Finance Lab was officially inaugurated.

Zhou Kaiguo, Dean of the School of Finance at CUEB, released the Beijing Financial Development Report (2025) . The report systematically reviews the development trends of Beijing’s financial industry. It focuses on analyzing the practical implementation and outcomes of the capital’s “Five Major Areas of Finance”, namely, technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance, and also proposes targeted development ideas and policy recommendations.

Zhou Kaiguo releases the Beijing Financial Development Report (2025).

Li Meiyu and Li Ping preside.

The keynote speech session was moderated by Li Ping, Executive Vice President of the Beijing Digital Economy Development Research Institute. Yang Xiaoguang, a researcher from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared his latest insights on the theme “Digital-Intelligent Finance as the Foundation for a Strong Financial Nation.” Wang Zhaoyang, Deputy Director of the Institute of Finance, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, focused on “Think Tank Report Writing and Exchange,” providing practical guidance for the lab’s future production of high-quality think tank outputs. Professor Tang Ke from Tsinghua University provided an in-depth analysis of “Several Pending Issues in Web 3,” offering important perspectives for cutting-edge financial technology development.

Yang Xiaoguang delivers the report.

Wang Zhaoyang and Tang Ke deliver reports.

The roundtable forum, moderated by CUEB Vice President Li Kunpeng, the Standing Committee of CUEB Party Committee, featured in-depth discussions on the theme “How Universities Can Excel in Think Tank Construction.” Participants, including Liang Qi, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of Nankai University; Yang Weikun, President of Hebei Finance University; and Huang Wei, Vice President of the University of International Business and Economics, shared their practical experiences in think tank mechanism innovation, research output translation, and talent cultivation.

The establishment of the Beijing Finance Lab represents a significant initiative by CUEB’s finance discipline to solidify the foundation for first-class discipline development, deepen government-industry-academia-research collaborative innovation, and strengthen its capacity to serve the national financial strategy. In the future, the lab will closely focus on the “Five Major Areas of Finance” to conduct cutting-edge research, promote the achievement transformation, and cultivate high-end personnel. Committed to building a nationally leading financial think tank, it continues to contribute CUEB’s wisdom and strengths to the high-quality financial development in Beijing and across China.