李强出席第十届陆家嘴论坛开幕式暨第一次全体大会并作主旨演讲 - 2018年06月15日

Li Qiang, Party secretary of Shanghai, yesterday said the city will speed up its efforts in building an international financial hub and a credit pilot zone in the Yangtze River Delta.

Li was speaking at the two-day Lujiazui Forum 2018 where more than 400 participants from home and abroad were discussing “Shanghai’s development toward an international financial center in the new era.”

He said building Shanghai into a global financial center was not only a national strategy, but also an “important mission” of the city. Shanghai, as a window of China’s reform and opening-up policy, has a strong financial gene, and the need for an international financial hub has become a necessity more than ever now.