Seminar on Money and Banking Management for French-speaking Countries in Africa Successfully Closed at SBS

        On the night of September 15, 2021 Beijing Time, the closing ceremony of the “Seminar on Money and Banking Management for French-speaking Countries in Africa”, sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and undertaken by the MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai), was successfully held online. Fang Meng from the Foreign Economic Cooperation Department of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and Dai Ying, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of International Education, SBS, attended the closing ceremony, and delivered their speeches.

       Dai Ying gave a summary of the programme on behalf of the undertaker. The seminar received a total of 52 government officials from five countries, including Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, and Tunisia. Experts, scholars, and trainees from Nanyang Commercial Bank (China) Limited, China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd., REALMAX Holding, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, and other institutions also took part in the seminar, and shared their practical experience and research results in the field of money and banking management. The trainees also paid “online visits” to Bank of Shanghai, Jing Data, and other units. The seminar offered an opportunity for the trainees to have a close contact with China’s diversified culture, and to comprehensively examine and understand China, also a developing country, from multiple perspectives.

        Ms. Sonya Hamuchi, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Morocco, gave a speech on behalf of all trainees. She said that the seminar offered an opportunity for developing countries to exchange their experience, and a window through which other developing countries could understand China’s culture, especially its economic and financial systems. She thanked the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and SBS for the training opportunity, and highly praised the seminar for its great training effect. She also added that the two-week seminar increased the trainee’s professional knowledge, improved their practical abilities, and broadened their horizons in the field of money and banking management.

         According to Fang Meng, finance is in essence the lubricator of real economy, and plays an extremely important role in optimizing resources allocation, serving enterprises, and promoting growth and innovation. Shanghai has taken the building of an international financial center as a major functional objective for urban development. The seminar was a successful exchange between China and French-speaking Countries in Africa that aimed at exploring the possibilities of promoting banking development and strengthening international cooperation. During the seminar, the undertaker also shared China’s experience in fighting COVID-19, with the purposes of helping other countries cope with the pandemic and practicing China’s development philosophy of building a community with a shared future for mankind”.

Writer: Guan Rui

Photographer: Li Zheng

Reviewer: Chen Wei

Executive Editor: Tang Xinhui