Seminar on Money and Banking Management for Portuguese-Speaking Countries Successfully Closed at SBS

        On the night of September 8, 2021 Beijing Time, the closing ceremony of the “Seminar on Money and Banking Management for Portuguese-Speaking Countries”, 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 56 government officials from seven countries, including Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe. Experts, scholars, and trainees from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, East China University of Science and Technology, 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, RIYING, 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.

        Zero Rezende Junior, CFO of the Brazil Branch of the Bank of China, gave a speech on behalf of all trainees. He thanked the Chinese side for the training opportunity, and highly praised the seminar for its great training effect. He said that the seminar was a great opportunity for the trainees to gain professional knowledge, improve their practical abilities, and broaden their horizons. More preciously, the seminar deepened their understanding of China and the Chinese people, and aroused their interest in visiting China after the pandemic to further their friendship with China.

         According to Fang Meng, money and banking management is an important driver of world economy and social development, and plays a vital role in terms of promoting economic growth, optimizing economic structure, safeguarding national interests, serving real economy, and enhancing investment and trade facilitation. Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has gradually widened its opening-up scope in the banking industry, and witnessed the steady increase of foreign institutions, the fruitful results of foreign investment attraction, and the continuous enrichment of banking products and service systems. The Chinese government will continue to promote the improvement of investment and market environments in the banking industry, support foreign capitals to more extensively participate in financial market development, and strengthen the core competitiveness and international level of the banking industry. At the end of this speech, Fang Meng invited the trainees to visit China, especially Shanghai, after the pandemic, and personally experience the development achievements made by China in the field of money and banking management.

Writer: Guan Rui 

Photographer: Li Zheng  

Reviewer: Chen Wei 

Executive Editor: Tang Xinhui