FinTech is the new undergraduate major of BNU this year. How to better construct the FinTech major is one of the important topics discussed in the education and teaching of BNU. For this reason, the financial department has recently carried out a series of research activities in many places. On October 13^th to 14^th, 2020, under the lead of professor Zhang Pindan, associate dean of the Institute of Management, Hu Haifeng, director of the financial department , Jiang Jie director of FinTech project, Sun Yun, director of the laboratory and Lan Rujia, head teacher of FinTech visited Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Tinysoft Technology Company to have an investigation and discuss cooperation.

On the morning of October 13^th, the research team came to the innovation and financial engineering laboratory of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. Professor Lin Jianwu, director of the Quantitative Research Center of the school, and researcher Zhou Yi expressed their warm welcome to the visiting team of BNU. Professor Lin Jianwu introduced the construction goal, history and current situation, space configuration, hardware and software resources and student training mode of the finance laboratory of the school. Zhou Yi demonstrated the experimental teaching platform of quantitative investment analysis and artificial intelligence application course on the spot, and invited teachers from outside the school to demonstrate the experimental platform of block chain, the holographic image platform of Haogeyunxin company and the Tianyun data platform through online means. We had an in-depth exchange of views on the construction of the fintech laboratory, the specific technical route and how to integrate the resources inside and outside the university.

In the afternoon of October 13^th, the research team of the financial department went to Shenzhen Tinysoft Technology Company，which is a developer of securities fund system software, mainly serving securities, funds and other companies, providing them with financial research and analysis service platform and related high-end application services. Mr. Liu Ermou, chairman of the company, introduced its development status, main products and the development of domestic fintech industry to the teachers. He said that its products, from the bottom system, language to object-oriented application, are all state-owned intellectual property rights, and the company is willing to carry out school-enterprise cooperation, to jointly improve the quality of talent training. 

On the morning of October 14^th, the research team of the financial department went to the Technical Center of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Zeng Haiquan, associate director of Shenzhen Stock Exchange technology planning department introduced the financial technology application of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, expressed the practical application of information technology in the capital market regulation from the perspective of financial regulators, He also had in-depth discussions with teachers on the regulatory use of fintech and the need for fintech talent. In addition, the two sides held talks on possible cooperation between Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Beijing Normal University.

Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone, is the vanguard of reform and opening up, Shenzhen's economic development and financial innovation has been walking in the forefront of China. The Shenzhen trip of finance department coincided with 40^th anniversary of the founding of Shenzhen special economic zone. The teachers studied and researched the advanced development concepts of Shenzhen and drew on the enterprising spirit of reform and innovation, which provided a broader development idea and a more cutting-edge education concept for the financial science and technology discipline construction of the BNUBS.