The "China Culture and Finance Pingyao Conference" was grandly held, with experts such as Huang Qifan, the former mayor of Chongqing, and Zhang Jiahao, an investor, gathering in Pingyao.

  In 1823, China's first private financial institution specialising in deposits, lending and remittances, the Rishengchang Bills of Exchange, was established in Pingyao County, pioneering the development of China's modern banking industry and creating the miracle of remittance to the world. After the establishment of the Rishengchang Ticket Company, ticket companies sprang up all over the country, with branch offices covering many overseas countries. The Jin merchants' ticket offices centered in Qixian, Taigu and Pingyao were also known as the financial centre of China at that time.

  The year 2023 is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Rishengchang Ticket Company. In order to deeply display the unique ticket culture and financial culture of Pingyao, set up a platform for cooperation and exchange among culture, tourism and finance, build an education and training base for China's financial industry, create a cultural and financial brand of Jin merchants' special characteristics, empower the construction of an internationally renowned cultural and tourism destination, and accelerate the high-quality development of Pingyao's culture and tourism, the "Seeing Rishengchang - China's Cultural and Tourism Exhibition" will be held on July 23rd. On 23 July, the "Rising Sun - China Culture and Finance Pingyao Conference" was held in the ancient city of Pingyao, where 500 experts and scholars from China's financial, business and cultural sectors gathered to talk about culture and finance.

  Huang Qifan, former mayor of Chongqing, Zhang Jiahao, internationally renowned investor and chairman of the European-American-China Investment Promotion Association, and Zongliang, chief researcher of the Bank of China, were invited to attend and deliver keynote speeches in the financial field.

  During the conference, Huang Qifan, former mayor of Chongqing, delivered a keynote speech on "Chinese-style modernisation", specifically proposing that in the process of "Chinese-style modernisation", China's huge market size will bring about great international competitiveness. In the future socio-economic development, the four most promising industrial areas are green low-carbon, digital economy, service (production services), and cluster development.

  Huang Qifan pointed out that China's population constitutes a single structural market system, and this mega-market system can bring down the cost of scientific research and innovation, the cost of capital investment, the cost of logistics, the cost of procurement of raw materials and components, the cost of new product market development, and the cost of labour. Huang Qifan also pointed out that the Chinese modern industrial system, the real economy is the main body, the manufacturing industry as the centre of gravity. The construction of Chinese-style modern industrial system, we must put the development of manufacturing and productive service industry to the important position of the national development strategy, accelerate the expansion of the chain to strengthen the chain to supplement the chain, accelerate the cultivation of the card chain, invisible champions, unicorns and other speciality, speciality and new enterprises, and actively build the head of the chain, the leading, the core and the foundry leading enterprises, to master the initiative of the industrial chain layout; forward-looking planning and layout of intelligent automobile, intelligent robots, ARVR Glasses, 3D printing and other intelligent terminal products that will enter thousands of households in the next 5 or 10 years, accelerating the development of high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing industry, and forming a number of globally competitive industrial clusters.

Speech by Huang Qifan, Former Mayor of Chongqing

Zhang Jiahao, Chairman of the European Union-China Investment Promotion Association, delivered a speech on the topic of "Financialisation and Internationalisation of the Private Economy under the New Economic Situation", in which he firstly analysed the slowing down of the global economic development in the post-epidemic period, while China's economy is rising against the trend with strong resilience. The CPC Central Committee and State Council recently put forward the "Opinions on Promoting the Development and Strengthening of the Private Economy", China's private economy has grown from small to large, from weak to strong, contributing more than 50% of the tax revenue, more than 60% of the GDP, more than 70% of the technological innovation, more than 80% of the urban labour force, more than 90% of the number of enterprises, to fully unleash the vitality of the private economy is an important prerequisite for the promotion of high-quality development of the economy. This is an important prerequisite for promoting high-quality economic development.

Speech by Zhang Jiahao, Chairman of the Europe-America-China Investment Promotion Association (EACIPA)

Zhang Jiahao, chairman of the speech, innovatively put forward China's private economy financial, international development route, he pointed out that "should be effective use of the current more relaxed one or two capital market, mergers, mergers, investment as the main tool for enterprise expansion, in the industry chain in all directions of enterprises, the use of existing capital and securities market leverage mechanism, expanding the scale of the enterprise, to enhance the strength of the enterprise. ". At the same time, for the private economy to achieve international development strategy, Zhang Jiahao proposed "cost to the production transfer, technology to the introduction of technology and market to the market expansion of the three directions".

Zong Liang, chief researcher of Bank of China, made a speech around "Rishengchang Bills on the financial road of Chinese characteristics of the revelation and opportunities in Shanxi", Zhou Huidong, president of China Construction Bank Shanxi Branch, Gao Chunping, former vice president of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, professor, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, party committee, vice president, doctoral tutor, such as Shen Peilong, experts and scholars in the field of finance, delivered speeches. Relevant experts and scholars delivered speeches respectively.

Pingyao held a series of activities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Rishengchang Ticket Company with high standards and specifications, showcasing in depth the unique ticket and financial culture of Pingyao Ancient City, further brightening the brand of Pingyao's financial and cultural heritage, extending cultural connotations, expanding the demonstration effect, and leading to the in-depth fusion and development of culture and tourism.

Huang Qifan, former Mayor of Chongqing (right), Zhang Jiahao, Chairman of the Europe-America-China Investment Promotion Association (centre), and Zong Liang, Chief Researcher of Bank of China (left)

During the Forum, Chairman Zhang Jiahao held a discussion with Chang Shuming, Secretary of Jinzhong Municipal Party Committee, and Wei Jiangfeng, Secretary of Pingyao County Party Committee. Chairman Zhang Jiahao said that the development of Pingyao should establish a brand positioning, and suggested that the "Ancient City of Pingyao, City of Financial Sources" should be the core of the Forum to create a highly internationalised financial gathering place, and to benchmark against the Boao Forum for Asia and the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, so as to form a sustainable and regular international gathering place, The Chairman Zhang Jiahao also proposed to take the "China Jinshang Conference and the World's First Forum on the Development of Merchants" as an opportunity to build the brand of "China Jinshang Conference and the World's First Forum on the Development of Merchants' Gangs", as well as to build an international business community and a financial centre. At the same time, President Zhang Jiahao proposed to take the brand of "China Jin Shang Conference and the World's First Development Forum of Merchants' Association" as an opportunity and the International Merchants' Association as a hand to form a platform for the exchange of financial industry, institutions, organisations, chambers of commerce, experts and scholars, and at the same time, set up the "Merchants' Association Business School" to break the geographical and industrial restrictions of chambers of commerce all over the country and the bottlenecks of the development mode of the existing chambers of commerce and to establish a financial museum and a permanent site of financial forum. Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign" comprehensive business alliance, ancient Jin merchants, Anhui merchants and other long-established chamber of commerce organisations, today's outstanding entrepreneurs alliance, in the national industry alliance, outside the international experts, scholars and Nobel Prize winners, and so on. With the high integration of cross-border, cross-region and cross-industry, "Business School" will create a brand-new business association system.

Secretary Chang Shuming spoke highly of the "World's First Business Association Development Forum" and the concept of "Business Association Business School" innovatively put forward by Chairman Zhang Jiahao, and said that the successful experience of the Investment Promotion Association of Europe and the United States in building a platform of international resources and domestic industries would be of great help to the concrete implementation of the "Financial Source City" in Jinzhong. He also said that the successful experience of the Association in building a platform for international resources and domestic industries was of great significance to Jinzhong City in terms of implementing the brand of "Financial Source City", establishing a management system and operating system. He hoped that the Association would form a deep cooperation with the Association, and that it would use the international resources of the Association in conjunction with the resource endowments of Pingyao to build a financial highland that would lead the world, turn resources into advantages, and practice the Chinese-style modernisation proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The Chinese-style modernisation proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Chairman Zhang Jiahao exchanged views with Chang Shuming, Secretary of Jinzhong Municipal Party Committee, and presented a book to him.

Chairman Zhang Jiahao presented a book to Wei Jiangfeng, Party Secretary of Pingyao County.

Chairman Zhang Jiahao presented a book to Feng Yuquan, Governor of Pingyao County.

Euro-Americas-China Investment Promoting Association (EACIPA) is a global resource integration and development platform initiated by talents in the fields of finance, science and technology, education, culture and trade in China, Europe and the United States.

Adhering to the core concept of "capital as the core, industry as the foundation, and integrated operation as the guidance", EACIPA has become the most influential interactive promotion platform in the fields of science and technology, education, culture, health, environmental protection, energy and financial capital in China, Europe and the United States after years of development and precipitation.

With the U.S.-China Investment Foundation, British SEALIGHT Capital Group, Italian Italian-Chinese Foundation, American Metropolitan Capital, American Wall Street Finance Union, Chinese American Bank, Hong Kong Finance Union, Silicon Valley Innovation Alliance, American Ivy League, Cambridge Institute of Technology and other global industry, academia, research and financial system as the platform, relying on the more than 40 countries around the world and the cooperative institutions of the chapter of more than 4,000 international top experts, scholars and experts. Relying on more than 4,000 international top experts, scholars and professors from more than 40 countries and partner institutions, and more than 5,000 outstanding entrepreneurs in various fields, it builds an ecosystem of international innovation and sharing, actively promotes the transformation and landing of international capital, industry, technology and talents in China, and helps local governments in China to "attract capital, attract wisdom, attract talents and attract business".

In recent years, under the active promotion of EMECIPA, it has contributed to the settlement of the Science and Technology Innovation Centre of the University of Cambridge in Nanjing, the Italian Centre in Xi'an Hi-Tech, Legoland in Jinshan, Shanghai, the signing of the contract of Ferrari Paradise in Jiangbei, Nanjing, the settlement of the U.S. cutting-edge stem cell technology team in Hangzhou, the U.S. Sleep Science and Technology Centre in Hainan, the U.S. cutting-edge lithium battery technology team in Shenzhen, and the establishment of a China Real Estate Investment Fund by the U.S. Blackstone Group in Shenzhen. The establishment of China Real Estate Investment Fund and other international capital, industry, talent and Chinese cities docking, and by the Europe and the United States to promote investment in the Association of the Greater Bay Area hosted in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, was established in the Bay Area Yuan Universe Innovation Centre. It is regarded as "an important civil bridge for the world to understand China and for China to go to the world" by governments at all levels.