On the afternoon of March 22, CPPCC Nanjing Committee held a special consultative conference on the promotion of “Digital Finance Application Scenarios in China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area”. Liu Yi’an, Chairman of CPPCC Nanjing Committee, and Luo Qun, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Nanjing Municipal Committee and full-time deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area, addressed the conference. Wu Weiguo, vice chairman of CPPCC Nanjing Committee, moderated the conference. Peng Zhenning, secretary general of CPPCC Nanjing Committee, attended the conference.

In recent years, Nanjing has promoted the deep integration of digital economy and real economy with the development of “Digital Nanjing”, and achieved outstanding results. Last year, the Standing Committee of CPPCC Nanjing Committee held consultations and discussions on strengthening institutional and policy innovation and leading the high-quality development of China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area, and put forward detailed measures and suggestions in four aspects: digital economy, intellectual property rights, financial technology and business environment in the Nanjing Area.

Liu Yi’an said that the purpose of this themed consultative conference is to give full play to the unique advantages of the CPPCC special consultation institutions, build a consultation platform, and showcase the innovative achievements in digital finance in Nanjing Jiangbei New Area. At the same time, it is also a special lecture, which helps everyone fully understand the broad application space of blockchain technology, plays the roles of exchanging information, demonstrating and leading the trend, building consensus, and provides a broader vision, a brand-new thinking and a more useful reference for our city to strive to apply for the national digital economy innovation and development pilot zone and the national new-generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone.

Liu Yi’an stressed that it is necessary to follow the spirit of the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, “seizing the development opportunities of digital economy”, accelerate the development of digitalization, create new advantages of digital economy, and fully release the great potential of digital technology to reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide high-quality services. First, we must base ourselves on digitalization and continue to promote enterprise transformation. Efforts will be made to optimize industrial volume, actively promote a new round of digital technological transformation, support companies in “accelerating digitalization, conducting data analysis and modeling, and creating optimized measures”, and accelerate the transformation of smart factories, digital agriculture and digital business districts. Efforts will be made to cultivate industrial growth, build a digital economy industrial cluster, accelerate the gathering of high-end innovative resources, and actively build new hubs of digital industries such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data and biotechnology. Second, we must grasp the key and continue to develop digital finance. We will take trade finance as the entry point, accelerate the application of blockchain digital finance technology and actively promote the construction of digital finance infrastructure. Efforts will be made to closely follow the development needs of emerging industries, vigorously cultivate new financial formats such as asset management and equity investment, and promote the development of technology finance, green finance and digital finance. Third, we should cultivate new ecosystems and continuously expand application scenarios. Efforts will be made to open more application scenarios, build a docking platform for supply and demand sides, speed up the linkage among innovation chain, industrial chain and supply chain. When realizing the transformation of technological achievements, efforts will be made to simultaneously drive the agglomeration and derivation of enterprises related to industrial chain, and build a closed-loop business driven by innovation. Efforts will be made to enhance the promotion of “multi-scenarios”, form a systematic and holistic solution, and help our city build itself into a benchmark city of digital economy.

At the meeting, Nanjing Yangzi State-owned Investment Group Co., Ltd., Nanjing New Industry Investment Group Co., Ltd., and Nanjing Institute of Digital Finance Industry Co., Ltd., introduced the relevant conditions respectively. Nanjing Jinning Technology Co., Ltd., Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Nanjing Branch, Guosheng Securities Research Institute, Nanjing Iron and Steel Group Gangbao Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance demonstrated the solutions of enterprise digitalization and digital finance.