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BACKGROUND

At present, the world economic growth lacks momentum, and with the underlines rules behind global trade and economic investment undergoing a period of profound restructuring, there is an impending need in new major dynamic sources. Global bay area economy has always been the growth pole of global economic development and the driving engine of technology reform. It also serves as the technological innovation hub and the financial and industrial agglomeration center. Following New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao has become the world 4th greater bay area, which is the core spatial carrier of China’s construction of the world-class urban agglomeration and its participation in the global competition. The International Financial Forum (IFF) seeks to cement its position as the F20 Summit in the financial field providing an international cooperation platform to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as well as driving in-depth discussions in promoting the stable, sustainable, fair, and inclusive global economic growth.

  • Han Seung-soo

  • Kevin Michael Rudd

  • Shaukat Aziz

  • Leung Chun-ying

  • Yukio Hatoyama

  • GU Shengzu

  • CHEN Yunxian

  • ZHOU Yanli

  • Edmond Alphandéry

  • ZHU Xian

  • Wen Guohui

  • Antony Leung

SPEECHES——
A new insurance industry – Protecting the BRI's interests
Political, legal and economic risks proliferate in the developing countries along the route of the Belt and Road Initiative, and China is bu
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Riding the technology wave – Innovation in the Greater Bay Area
Ma Jiantang, executive vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Governance, looks at how a remodelled Chinese economic landscape combining t
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Co-ordinated development – The gateway to the Bay Area Development
Gu Shengzu, vice-chairman of the IFF and vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference, d
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Fintech in the ‘new era’ – Sustainable and sound development
Li Dongrong, president of the National Internet Finance Association of China and former deputy governor of the Peoples Bank of China, discus
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Mutual benefits – Bay area development in China and the US
Rick Niu, president and chief executive officer of Starr Strategic Holdings and partner at Starr Finance, examines what China can learn from
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Constructing a modern economic system in the Greater Bay Area
Zhang Yansheng, IFF Academic Committee member and chief researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, explains the re
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Hong Kong – Flagship of the Bay Area Development
Antony Leung, chief executive officer of Nan Fung Group and former financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, discu
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Stage management – The long-term goals of China's reform and ‘opening-up'
Planned, goal-oriented development inspires Chinas population to look at the big picture and work together towards prosperity and power, wri
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Own your crisis – Removing the bottleneck to reform
Shaukat Aziz, IFF co‑chairman, and former prime minister and finance minister of Pakistan, recommends that developing countries deal with fi
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The world-growth engine – Asia's new role in the global economy
The recovery from the global financial crisis was driven by Asia, in particular China. Deeper integration of China into the world economy an
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Establishing a multilayered banking system to support the real economy
Wang Yuan, IFF Academic Committee member and former chief economist at the China Development Bank, discusses why China must let the market p
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Globalisation resurgent – The post-financial crisis world
Zhu Xian, vice-president of the New Development Bank, recognises that continuing to grow the power and maturity of the developing world as a
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