“International Center for Cultural and Artistic Finance Research” is Unveiled at Fudan University | Info

Release time：2025-01-21    

On the afternoon of January 18^th 2025, the “International Center for Cultural and Artistic Finance Research” jointly founded by Fudan International School of Finance and Shanghai Yuanlei Culture and Art Foundation was unveiled at Fudan University.

Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean of FISF and Professor in Finance, Professor Gang Zhu, Director of Department of Chinese Literature, Fudan University, Qiang Zhang, Chairman of Shanghai Yuanlei Culture and Art Foundation, and Suhua Liu, Global Strategic Advisor of Shanghai Conflux Blockchain Research Institute, unveiled the Research Center together.

Professor Huasheng Gao introduced that the “International Center for Cultural and Artistic Finance Research” was established with the aspiration of leading in social resources to stimulate academic passion, and promoting the border-crossing research and integrated development between art and finance, culture and technology through scientific research and training, providing suggestions and contributing strengths to the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center and development of a cultural power in the new era.

Qiang Zhang, Chairman of Shanghai Yuanlei Culture and Art Foundation, acted as the director of FISF’s “International Center for Cultural and Artistic Finance Research.” He noted that under the guidance of the public welfare concept of “academics facilitating art and art nourishing human heart,” “Yuanlei Foundation” had not only explored deep and far in cultural inheritance, protection of intangible cultural heritage, art promotion and aesthetic education enlightenment, but also wished to cooperate with FISF to forge ahead in academic fields and integrate art and culture with fintech. At the unveiling ceremony, Qiang Zhang granted letters of appointment to Weiying Wu, Executive Director of the Research Center, as well as the first batch of 10 “specially appointed researchers”, including Professor Xianyuan Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor Naishu Sun from East China Normal University and Dr. Guang Yang, Research Director of Shanghai Conflux Blockchain Research Institute.

The day coincided with the 988^th anniversary of the birth of Dongpo Su, a literary master from the Song Dynasty, so the sponsor also held the “Boshui Zhai” Dongpo Su Birthday Celebration Cultural Gathering Event, where distinguished guests shared and exchanged their calligraphy and painting art collections related to Dongpo Su. This was a beneficial attempt of border-crossing integration and mutual empowerment between traditional culture and international finance.