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Shenzhen Stock Exchange Sets Up University Scholarships To Underpin Financial Tech Talent Cultivation

Date 25/06/2018

Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) held the university scholarship signing ceremony in Beijing on June 22. This marks SZSE’s first public donation via scholarships that cover 14 world-class domestic universities and first-class disciplinary building universities, such as Peking University, Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and mainly orient towards students majoring in information technology. Mr. Yang Zhihua, Deputy Secretary of SZSE CPC Committee and Supervisor of SZSE, attended and addressed at the ceremony. Chief Engineer Yu Huali signed agreements with the principals taking charge of the respective foundations of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics etc.

In his speech, Mr. Yang said that SZSE has set foothold on overall layout of national strategies, fully serving the real economy development and endeavoring to build a multi-tiered capital market. Meanwhile, SZSE has been vigorously fulfilling its social responsibilities and attaching great importance to the cultivation of university talents and their employment. In 2017, the SZSE Party Committee formulated a plan of invigorating SZSE via talents. In the plan, SZSE puts forward the strategic goal of building an excellent professional talent team that features top-notch status in domestic capital market and strong competitiveness in international market and determines to provide a broad career development platform for the outstanding. Financial technology develops rapidly and has greatly boosted the innovation reform in financial business models, which highlights more and more the significance of financial technology talents. By setting up scholarships in universities, SZSE can make use of the university talent cultivation base edge to strengthen the development of financial tech talents and encourage the savvy to stand out. This will exert positive effects on the advance in full-industry financial tech innovation.

Next, SZSE will further strengthen exchanges with the universities to gradually expand the scope of cooperation and jointly consolidate the human resources and information technology foundation for China’s capital market. Thus, SZSE will be able to make more contribution to the important decision and deployment of promoting the healthy development of multi-tiered capital markets made during the 19th CPC National Congress.