2024 Lujiazui Forum kicks off in Shanghai on Wednesday

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2024 Lujiazui Forum kicks off in Shanghai on Wednesday

2024-06-19 12:12 Last Updated At：16:57

The two-day 2024 Lujiazui Forum, a major financial event, kicked off in Shanghai on Wednesday.

The financial industry brainstorm focuses on discussions about enhancing high-quality financial development through reforms and innovations. It is aimed at tackling current global economic challenges to promote sustained global economic growth.

Themed "Promoting World Economic Growth with High-Quality Financial Development", the event includes eight plenary meetings covering current hot topics in the economic and financial fields. These include "the relationship between technological innovation and the capital market's high-quality development", "institutional innovation and market incentives for the green finance sector", and "the silver economy and aging finance".

More than 70 industry insiders, both domestic and international, were invited to the forum to deliver speeches. The attendees include heads of the People's Bank of China, the National Administration of Financial Regulation, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

In addition, this year's forum will host an international seminar on financial rule of law. There will also be a Scientific and Technological Innovation Finance Studio, which will focus on topics like enhancing multi-level capital flows and building highly-impactful scientific and technological innovation industries.

The CSRC will unveil new capital market policies during the forum and work with the Shanghai municipal government to support the development of the capital market, thereby enhancing the metropolis' competitiveness and influence as an international financial hub.

CNSA official on Chang'e-6's major breakthroughs

2024-06-27 22:50 Last Updated At：23:07

The Chang'e-6 mission made three major technological breakthroughs and a world-first accomplishment, an official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said at a press conference about the lunar exploration mission in Beijing on Thursday.

Vice Administrator of CNSA Bian Zhigang noted that the Chang'e-6 mission is a lunar exploration mission adopted with most advanced technologies to date in China's space exploration endeavors.

"The Chang'e-6 mission made breakthroughs in lunar retrograde orbit design and control, intelligent sampling on the moon and lunar ascent from its far side, and realized the first unmanned automatic sample collection and return from the far side of the moon in the world, setting another world record for China's aerospace program," Bian said.

Samples collected from the far side of the moon may help mankind further study the planet, said Li Chunlai, deputy chief designer of the Chang'e-6 mission, at the press conference.

"The samples collected from the South Pole-Aitken Basin may be very different from the samples collected from the front side, which is conducive to a more comprehensive understanding of the geological evolution history of the moon," Li said.

The mission also carried out cooperation with the European Space Agency, France, Italy and Pakistan on four scientific payloads to obtain valuable first-hand scientific data.

"We promised the orbiter and lander will each reserve a volume of 10 kg for international payloads. We fulfilled the promise and accumulated experience for us to perform more complex tasks in the future," Hu Hao, chief designer of the Chang'e-6 mission, told reporters.