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From November 20 to 22, the International Finance Forum 2020 Annual Meeting was

held in Nansha, Guangzhou. Under the theme of "Comprehensive and Sustainable

Development - Wide Consultation, Co-operation and Crisis Response", it

attracted nearly 200 financial representatives, business leaders and experts to

discuss on the topics like Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the New Landscape:

Opportunities and Challenges, WTO Reform and Future Global Trade System, Carbon

Pricing, Greater Bay Area Cooperation and Development etc.

Sustainable development highlighted at IFF

The outbreak of COVID-19 makes it more urgent to build a community with a

shared future for mankind. Gao Yan, chairman of the China Council for the

Promotion of International Trade, said: "The world is undergoing changes unseen

in a century, which is now accelerated by the pandemic. The world economy is in

a deep recession. The global industrial chain and supply chain have been

negatively affected. Unilateralism and protectionism have occurred, and the

economic globalization has encountered a countercurrent. This year's meeting

focuses on sustainable development, which shares similar goals and ideas with

the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, benefiting all

mankind and the world."

According to Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, countries need more

liquidity and resources to deal with the crisis and promote recovery. He stated

that global public finance should pay attention to the countries and industries

in need, promoting sustainable development.

Han Seung-soo, co-chair of IFF Council, former prime minister of South Korea

and former president of the U.N. General Assembly shares similar views. "We

cannot sacrifice the interests of mankind in pursuit of short-term economic

growth. This important message must be passed on through this event. Finance

can play its own role in promoting future investment in a more sustainable way."

Global Green Finance Innovation Award first initiated

In September, Chinese leader delivered an important speech at the General

Debate of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly, calling on all countries

to pursue innovative, coordinated, green and open development for all, seize

the historic opportunities presented by the new round of scientific and

technological revolution and industrial transformation, achieve a green

recovery of the world economy in the post-COVID era.

This year, IFF first initiated the Global Green Finance Innovation Award to

praise the innovative solutions of global green finance, in ways to deepen

international exchanges and cooperation in green finance and promote successful

experience in its development and contribute to sustainable development. The

award review committee consists of 15 important leaders with global influence

and authority, together with elites from areas of finance and environment,

selected special contribution award institutions and relevant projects.

Confidence shown in financial development of Nansha

From 2017 to 2019, the IFF Annual Meeting has been held in Guangzhou for three

consecutive years. Just two months ago, Nansha witnessed the foundation-stone

laying ceremony of the IFF permanent venue, which will be developed as the

platform of global innovative finance and the one to allocate financial

resources.

Why choose Nansha? Recently, it has given answers in aspects like optimizing

the business environment, encouraging financial innovation, and supporting

financial services.

In July the Nansha Financial Bureau announced the optimized measures to support

the financial industry, broadening the scope of rewards, increasing the types

of rewards, raising the amount of reward, and enhancing the attractiveness of

policies. The measures aim at improve the business environment of the financial

industry and gathered high quality financial resources.

In addition, Nansha actively promotes financial reform and innovation to inject

new momentum into the real economy. At present, Nansha has a total of 42

financial innovation practices or pilot projects. Among them, the intelligent

local financial risk monitoring and prevention platform is selected as one of

the best practice case in the pilot free trade zone.

As of September 2020, Nansha has settled a total of 6,559 financial and similar

financial enterprises, the number of which increases 52 times compared with

that before the launch of pilot free trade zone.

Source: The International Finance Forum 2020 Annual Meeting