The China Securities Association held an international business committee chairman (expanded) meeting to discuss a series of key research directions for the second half of the year

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on August 3, the Chairman (Enlarged) Meeting of the International Business Professional Committee of the China Securities Association was held in Beijing. The conference pointed out that the outline of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” lays out comprehensive strategic plans for expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world, building the “Belt and Road” with high quality, and speeding up the construction of a strong financial nation, and proposes a series of key tasks. The Commission should build on the overall situation of opening up the country to the outside world and building a financial power, take “going global” and “bringing in” the service economy as the starting point and foothold, resolve the blockages and difficulties of the internationalization of the industry as a starting point and foothold, build a bridge of normalized communication between supervision and the industry, effectively promote the industry to enhance its comprehensive cross-border service capabilities, and achieve its own high-quality development in supporting the two-way opening up of the capital market.

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China Securities Association Holds International Business Committee Chairman (Enlarged) Meeting

On August 3, 2026, the Chairman (Enlarged) Meeting of the International Business Professional Committee of the China Securities Association was held in Beijing. The conference thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the “15th Five-Year Plan” outline, and studied and deployed the Committee's key tasks for the second half of 2026. The meeting was presided over by Suo Lihui, chairman of the committee and general manager of Goldman Sachs (China) Securities. Relevant officials from the Association attended the meeting and delivered speeches. More than 30 people attended the meeting, including relevant comrades from the Department of Institutions and International Affairs of the Securities Regulatory Commission, as well as representatives of the Committee's Deputy Chairman and Committee members.

The conference pointed out that the outline of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” lays out comprehensive strategic plans for expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world, building the “Belt and Road” with high quality, and speeding up the construction of a strong financial nation, and proposes a series of key tasks. The Commission should build on the overall situation of opening up the country to the outside world and building a financial power, take “going global” and “bringing in” the service economy as the starting point and foothold, resolve the blockages and difficulties of the internationalization of the industry as a starting point and foothold, build a bridge of normalized communication between supervision and the industry, effectively promote the industry to enhance its comprehensive cross-border service capabilities, and achieve its own high-quality development in supporting the two-way opening up of the capital market.

The conference focused on the target requirements of speeding up the construction of first-class investment banks and investment institutions with Chinese characteristics, and reported on the Committee's phased progress in key tasks such as “data crossing” and “capital crossing” in the first half of the year; it focused on topics such as drawing on the development path and model of large-scale international all-round investment banks, the development of international boutique specialty investment banks and characteristic service providers, the international investment bank internationalization strategy and management model, the functional performance of overseas securities companies, the supervision system of international securities management agencies, and securities companies using free trade zone pilots to achieve high-quality development.

In the next step, under the support and guidance of the supervisory authorities, the Commission will continue to thoroughly implement the relevant work arrangements to “promote and accelerate the construction of first-class investment banks and investment institutions with Chinese characteristics”, form high-quality industry research results and policy suggestions, and achieve the transformation from “finding problems” to “solving problems”, effectively solving problems and doing practical things for the industry, and promoting the international development of the securities industry to a new level.

This article was selected from the “China Securities Association Release” official account. Zhitong Finance Editor: Liu Jiayin.