The 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference opens this afternoon, with Pan Gongsheng, Wu Qing, and heads of four departments set to deliver keynote speeches.

PANews, October 19 — The 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference opened this afternoon in Beijing's Financial Street and will run until October 22. The theme is "Openness, Cooperation and Inclusiveness — Building a New Ecosystem for Global Financial Development," with more than 400 guests from over 40 countries and regions attending. Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China; Ding Xiangqun, Director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration; Wu Qing, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission; and Zhu Hexin, Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, will deliver keynote speeches. The forum plans to hold 21 thematic events and 3 special conferences. Among them, the Fintech Conference will focus on frontier topics such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, and is expected to release achievements including the central bank's digital renminbi system and the digital renminbi smart contract ecosystem service framework.