Finance plays a significant role in promoting the deep integration of technology and industry, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and other aspects. At the main forum "Financial Empowerment and Industrial Leadership for High-Quality Development" of the Financial Street Forum Annual Conference held in Beijing in the evening, guests from government departments, financial institutions, and tech-innovation enterprises engaged in a lively discussion on how finance can further adapt to the needs and characteristics of new forms of productivity, shaping new advantages for high-quality development.

Zhao Lei, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee and Secretary-General, stated that Beijing is the national financial management center, boasting the densest headquarters of financial institutions and various types of financial institutions nationwide, forming a diversified, multi-layered, and widely-covered financial system. In recent years, Beijing has actively promoted the deep integration of finance and industry around key areas and weak links of the national economy such as technological innovation, green development, and inclusive finance for small and micro enterprises, achieving significant results. Looking ahead, Beijing will continue to leverage its strengths, optimize the efficiency of financial services, promote the deep integration of finance and industry, and inject new vitality into high-quality development.

Huo Xiaoguang, Deputy Director of Xinhua News Agency and Director of the Domestic Department, stated that the real economy is the foundation of finance, and serving the real economy is the duty of finance. Financial empowerment of industries and leading high-quality development should continue to focus on "five major articles," better leveraging the role of finance as "living water" to accelerate the transformation of reform dividends into high-quality development momentum. On the new journey, Xinhua News Agency will leverage its unique advantages, strengthen authoritative voice guidance, enhance the effectiveness of public opinion guidance, conduct in-depth investigations and research, increase international communication efforts, and make its due contributions to accelerating the construction of a financial powerhouse.

Zhang Wenwu, Vice Chairman and General Manager of CITIC Group, stated that CITIC Group, relying on its full-license financial resources, has positioned technology finance as a focal point and driving force to support technological innovation and promote the development of new quality productivity, exploring innovative models and practical achievements with CITIC characteristics. Recently, CITIC Group launched two service brands, "Go Abroad, Find CITIC" and "Come to China, Find CITIC," officially introducing a global comprehensive service solution. In the next step, CITIC Group will fully leverage its comprehensive financial advantages to support the development of more technology-based enterprises, making greater contributions to building new quality productivity and promoting high-quality economic development in China.

Bu Fanwei, Deputy Director of the Property Insurance Regulatory Department of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, introduced the situation of insurance empowering high-quality industrial development. He stated that insurance, as a fundamental institutional arrangement in the modern market economy system, empowers through insurance protection, capital aggregation, and risk reduction. In recent years, China's insurance industry has achieved significant results in empowering high-quality industrial development, actively supporting technological innovation, industrial green transformation, and the development of agriculture, rural areas, and small and micro enterprises.

Hong Kong's Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr. Christopher Hui, stated that as an international financial center, Hong Kong boasts a robust financial market foundation, efficient financial infrastructure, and the advantages of attracting top-tier international financial institutions and talent. Hong Kong will seize opportunities to pursue diversified development and promote high-quality economic growth by focusing on the "five major financial articles." Additionally, Hong Kong will leverage its unique advantages as an international financial center to actively participate in global economic cooperation, striving unceasingly for a sustainable future.

Yang Jiangying, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Banking Association, stated that the banking industry has made positive contributions to the high-quality development of the manufacturing sector, and will play an even greater role in the future. The China Banking Association will fully leverage the leading role of industry associations, build platforms for industry exchange, continuously conduct forward-looking and guiding research, timely assess the implementation effects of various policies, strengthen related research and publicity, and promote the banking industry's continuous empowerment of the high-quality development of the manufacturing sector.

Yin Jiuyong, Executive Director and Vice President of Bank of Communications, stated that major state-owned banks play a "main force" role in serving the real economy, focusing on empowering the "main battlefield" of industrial development. Bank of Communications has strategically positioned its technology finance business from a group-wide perspective, introduced special plans for technology finance, and aimed to enhance the efficiency of financial support for major national tasks and small-to-medium-sized technology enterprises. In the next step, Bank of Communications will diligently work on the "five major financial articles" to make new and greater contributions to supporting the construction of a modern industrial system and advancing the Chinese modernization.

Huang Hanquan, the director of the China Macroeconomic Research Institute, stated that in recent years, China has basically established a comprehensive and widely-covered technology finance model that encompasses technology credit, stock markets, bond markets, and venture capital, gradually adapting to the diverse financing needs of technology-based enterprises. It is essential to vigorously promote technological innovation and the transformation of research outcomes, unblock the "finance, industry" cycle, solidify the main carriers of the "technology, industry, finance" cycle, and optimize the functions and efficiency of financial services.

Zhang Jian, Vice Chairman and General Manager of Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co., Ltd., believes that financial services for new-quality productive forces are a practical requirement for the financial sector to support the real economy in the new era. The concentration of capital market resources in technological innovation is conducive to forming a strong synergy for the capital market system to support the development of new-quality productive forces. Shenwan Hongyuan Securities will actively leverage its integrated advantages in "research + investment + investment banking + mergers and acquisitions" to assist in the optimization and upgrading of industrial structures.

At the forum, China Economic Information Service officially released the "National Data Industry Map ()", providing a panoramic view of the current state of China's data industry development and offering a reference for understanding the "family background" of China's data industry.

During the roundtable forum, guests from UBS Group, State Power Investment Corporation Hydrogen Energy Technology Development Co., Ltd., National Bank of Pakistan, Zhongguancun Internet Finance Institute, Qingdao Bank, and Beijing Yuxin Technology Group Co., Ltd. jointly discussed the theme "Pursuing 'Quality' by Embracing 'New' - Financial Empowerment for New Productive Forces."