On December 19th, China Everbright Bank held a comprehensive financial services seminar in Shanghai entitled "Entering the Yangtze River Delta." The seminar released Everbright Bank's "Comprehensive Financial Services Solution for the Yangtze River Delta," invited Qiao Yu, Assistant Director and Leading Scientist of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, to give a keynote speech, and organized a discussion and exchange among more than 50 representatives from well-known enterprises and peer institutions in the field of artificial intelligence on the development and application trends of artificial intelligence.
The meeting released China Everbright Bank's "Comprehensive Financial Services Plan for the Yangtze River Delta". This plan is a financial service solution with China Everbright Bank characteristics, specially developed and launched by China Everbright Bank, which closely follows the requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and is based on the national development plan for the Yangtze River Delta region, combined with the aggregation and circulation patterns of various production factors in the Yangtze River Delta.
Ma Bo, Dean of the China Everbright Financial Research Institute, stated, “Proactively integrating into and serving national regional development strategies is the responsibility of Everbright as a state-owned financial enterprise. From the recent ‘Entering the Greater Bay Area’ to this ‘Entering the Yangtze River Delta,’ these activities fully demonstrate Everbright’s determination to closely follow the national regional development strategy.” He explained that this event, focusing on artificial intelligence, is also an innovation in Everbright Bank’s “Entering” series. Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region are among the most economically vibrant, open, and innovative regions in my country. By combining its focus on serving national regional strategies with regional characteristics, and concentrating on supporting the development of new productive forces and the field of artificial intelligence, Everbright aims to more accurately and effectively fulfill its mission as a state-owned financial enterprise.
Tang Yongdong, President of China Everbright Bank Shanghai Branch, stated that artificial intelligence is one of the three leading industries in Shanghai's efforts to build a world-class science and technology innovation center. China Everbright Bank Shanghai Branch will leverage the synergistic advantages of the Everbright Group, fully seize new opportunities for regional development, and increase its support across the entire artificial intelligence industry chain, comprehensively covering key aspects such as chips, large-scale models, corpora, and application scenarios. It will proactively play a role in the wave of industry empowerment and development. Using core enterprises in the industry chain as a fulcrum, it will build an upstream and downstream financial ecosystem, provide comprehensive financial services, explore innovative models such as CVC fund cooperation and investment-loan linkage, and contribute Everbright's distinctive financial strength to the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry in the Yangtze River Delta.
Representatives from participating companies analyzed and introduced the development trends in the field of artificial intelligence and the situation of their respective companies and industries. They expressed their appreciation for the rich and practical content and the novel and simple format of this seminar. The companies look forward to building more platforms for exchanges between industry, academia, research, government and finance, and carrying out exchanges and cooperation in technology, application scenarios, financial services and ecosystem.
During his exchange with entrepreneurs, Dean Ma Bo stated that face-to-face communication and discussions, listening to the entrepreneurs' genuine needs, allows for more precise targeting of development pain points and continuous optimization of service models with a "customer-centric" approach. On the one hand, accompanying enterprises as they grow and thrive is the responsibility of financial institutions; on the other hand, financial institutions also need the support of enterprises. Currently, artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the underlying logic of finance and industry, and banks and innovative technology companies, especially artificial intelligence companies, can become strategic partners for mutual progress and success.
Building a collaborative exchange platform integrating industry, academia, research, government, and finance is a key path to promote technological innovation, industrial innovation, and financial empowerment. It is also a beneficial exploration by China Everbright Bank to solidify and refine its fintech initiatives. Starting with this conference, China Everbright Bank will deepen consensus and share resources with relevant enterprises, carrying out pragmatic cooperation in areas such as technology co-creation and scenario co-construction, jointly exploring new models for the deep integration of finance and technology.
