On October 16^th, BNU Business School, Beijing Local Financial Regulatory Administration and Tsinghua University Wudaokou School of Finance held the Fintech External Tutor Appointment Ceremony and Fintech Talent Training Seminar in our campus.

Cheng Jianping, Party Secretary of Beijing Normal University, attended the appointment ceremony and delivered a speech. Cheng jianping pointed out that Beijing Normal University was one of the first "double first-class" universities in China to offer the undergraduate program of fintech, and the cultivation of high-level interdisciplinary talents in the program was a positive response to the implementation of the spirit of the Central Talent Work Conference. The appointment of mentors in the fintech industry was one of the substantive measures in the context of the tripartite cooperation between BNU Business School, Beijing Local Financial Supervision Administration and Tsinghua University's Wudaokou School of Finance. BNUBS employed fintech external tutors with both theoretical and practical experience, which helped to promote the integration of industry and education, the construction of the theoretical system of fintech innovation, and the cultivation of high-level interdisciplinary talents in fintech.

Cheng Jianping, Party Secretary of Beijing Normal University, delivered a speech

Huo Xuewen, Party Secretary and Director of Beijing Local Financial Supervision Administration, expressed his gratitude to all the leaders, experts, scholars and entrepreneurs who have been caring and supporting the financial development and fintech education of the capital for a long time, and congratulated all the mentors at this appointment ceremony. He pointed out that vigorously developing fintech personnel training was a necessary measure for Beijing to build itself into a talent highland commensurate with the functions of the national financial management center. Beijing would strengthen the development plan of financial talents at a high level, promote the discovery mechanism of leading fintech talents, build a multi-level talent training system for universities with high standards, and establish a high-quality qualification certification system for fintech talents. By fully relying on Beijing Normal University and other universities in Beijing to strengthen the construction of fintech disciplines, Beijing would support the establishment of fintech departments and research directions, and form an integrated fintech talent training system for undergraduate, master and doctoral students.

Huo Xuewen, Party Secretary and director of Beijing Local Financial Supervision Administration delivered a speech

Qi Yudong, Dean of the BNUBS, presided over the speech and appointment ceremony. Qi Yudong read out the list of 15 fintech external tutors. They were from the People's Bank of China, ICBC Technology, Everbright Cloud Payment Technology, Ping An Group Financial One Account, Linkage, Shenzhou Information, Tianyang Hongye, Longying Zhida (Beijing) Technology, Qianxin Technology, Duxiaoman Technology, Baixin Bank, China Academy of Information and Communication Technology, Tsinghua University Institute of Financial Science and Technology. Cheng Jianping and Huo Xuewen jointly awarded the letter of appointment to fintech external tutors.

Qi Yudong, Dean of BNUBS , presided over the appointment ceremony

The issuing of appointment letters

Di Gang,Deputy Director of the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, and Zhou Yonghong, General Manager of ICBC Technology (Beijing) Co., LTD., spoke on behalf of the external tutors respectively. Di Gang said fintech should adhere to demand-oriented curriculum design and cross-integration in talent training, and promote talent training in an open and innovative way. He also said they welcomed cooperation between Beijing Normal University and the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China in joint talent training, joint research of major projects and joint theoretical innovation. He said that he would fulfill his duties as an external tutor, become a powerful foreign aid to professional education, and learn and grow together with students and teachers.

Zhou Yonghong said that he was very honored to be invited as an external tutor. He talked about his personal experience on the development and cultivation of fintech talents from the perspective of enterprise development. Due to the needs of business transformation and upgrading, self-reliance and risk control and compliance, financial institutions were in desperate need of fintech talents, especially those in basic research, applied fields and interdisciplinary talents. He would give full play to his professional advantages in the field of science and technology and the platform advantage of ICBC Science and Technology, and contribute wisdom and strength to the training of fintech professionals in Beijing and Beijing Normal University.

The external tutor representative Di Gang made a speech

The external tutor representative Zhou Yonghong made a speech

After the appointment ceremony, instructors from both inside and outside the school held a joint discussion on fintech talent training. The seminar was moderated by Hu Haifeng, Dean of the Department of Finance, BNUBS. Zhang Pingping, Associate Dean of BNUBS, first introduced the historical background of the school, the undergraduate majors of the School and the current situation of the cultivation of undergraduate talents in fintech to the external tutors.

Hu Haifeng                                  Zhang Pingdan

External tutors expressed their views on fintech talent development. Xu Yelun, President of One Account Investment, pointed out that the most important ability of financial institutions is practical ability and market sensitivity based on his years of experience in Wall Street. At present, there was still a gap between practice and theory, which required dynamic integration of industry, university and research. Li Ben, president of Linkscience Beijing Technology Co., LTD., said that out-of-school tutors were a two-way interactive transmission mechanism. Financial science and technology personnel training should be gradient, in addition to technology but also pay attention to the cultivation of risk ethics. Xu Changzhi, Party Secretary and Chairman of Everbright Cloud Payment Technology Co., LTD., welcomed teachers and students of Beijing Normal University to carry out on-site and case-based teaching, school-enterprise interaction, and cultivate fintech talents matching the national financial strategy. Zhou Daoxu, Director of the Financial Security Research Center of Tsinghua University's Fintech Research Institute, pointed out that Beijing Normal University's fintech discipline construction should first find a good positioning, determine the goal of talent training, and then solve the problem of what to teach. Liu Yang, the representative of Wu Yunkun, President of Qianxin Technology Group Co., LTD., shared the insight of the guests in the third Beijing Network Security Conference on talent cultivation, and hoped to use Qianxin Financial Innovation Institute as a platform for more exchanges and cooperation with Beijing Normal University. Wang Yanbo, Chief Data Scientist of Longying Zhida (Beijing), talked about the issue of fintech awareness and how technology supporting financial innovation could be an issue in economics, management and engineering. Di Gang, Associate Director of the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, stressed that curriculum design should be dynamic, talent training should be demand-oriented with a clear orientation, and emphasis should be placed on financial ethics education. Ma Hongjie, Vice President of Digital China Information Co., LTD., shared the specific demand for talents based on his own enterprise practice and suggested strengthening the cultivation of basic abilities. Yu Hanhan, Chief Digital Officer of Baixin Bank, welcomed Beijing Normal University students to practice and participate in the competition, and pointed out that curriculum design should be dynamic based on his own study and work experience, and tutors inside and outside the university should have a clearer division of labor boundary. Yuan Wei, Founder and CEO of Daokou Jinke, a startup incubated by Tsinghua University's Wudaokou School of Finance, shared the database of fintech enterprises they have been working on and welcomed joint research on the subject. Liu Xiaogui, representative of He Baohong, Director of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data under the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, shared several key directions on the national industry-finance cooperation platform and pilot work, such as deepening the understanding of financial institutions on the industry and the underlying understanding of financial portfolio business. In terms of talent training, it is suggested to pay attention to two dimensions of universality and professionalism.Shi Haifeng, the representative of Ouyang Jianping, Chairman and President of Tianyang Hongye Technology Co., LTD., talked about the coexistence of tradition and innovation based on the company's own development practice. Courses, teachers and textbooks were the most basic and important for the construction of the new major.

Xu Yerun                    Li Ben                      Xu Changzhi                  Zhou Daoxu            

Liu Yang                     Wang Yanbo                    Di Gang                    Ma Hongjie          

Yu Haohan             Yuan Wei              Liu Xiaogui           Shi Haifeng

Jiao Hao, Director of the Department of Business Management, BNUBS; Jiang Jie, Director of Fintech Project; Zhou Jianghua, Associate Director of MBA Center; Professor Hao Ying, Department of Accounting; Professor Zheng Feihu, Department of International Trade; Dr. Tang Honghong; Dr. Lan Rujia and more than 100 undergraduates of finance and fintech from BNUBS attended the conference.

At present, China is on a new journey to fully build a modern socialist country and march toward the Second Centenary Goal. We are closer than ever to realizing the great goal of national renewal, and we are more eager for talents than ever before. On May 9^th, 2021, BNU Business School, Beijing Local Financial Regulatory Administration and Tsinghua University Wudaokou School of Finance signed a memorandum of Cooperation on the development of fintech programs. The appointment of fintech external tutors is a beneficial attempt for BNU to fulfill its responsibility as a "Double First-class" university, to do a good job in the cultivation of high-level compound talents and independent talents, and to explore the path of innovation in the cultivation of fintech talents in China.

Provided by Finance Department

Edited by Jiang Jie

Reviewed by Sun Zhijun