[Back-to-School Season Series (6)] Pursuing Future Dreams and Forging a New Path in Finance Together - FISF 2025 Opening Ceremony | Heavyweight

Release time：2025-09-08    

On September 6^th 2025, the 2025 Opening Ceremony of Fudan International School of Finance was solemnly held at Xianghui Hall, Fudan University. Jing Lu, President and Vice Board Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited; Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF Party General Branch; Jun Qian, Executive Dean and Professor in Finance; Charles Zhang, Deputy Dean and Professor in Finance; Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean and Professor in Finance, along with professors and teachers at FISF, were all present at the ceremony, gathering with freshmen of the six programs of Global Bachelor of Fintech, Elite Masters of Finance, Full-Time Financial MBA, Part-Time Financial MBA, Advanced Master of Finance and Financial EMBA at Xianghui Hall to jointly embrace a new journey of learning. 

Deputy Dean Huasheng Gao presided over the opening ceremony. He expressed warm welcome to freshmen from all over the world. With the soaring national anthem, the opening ceremony officially kicked off.

Learn from the past, temper ourselves in the present, and take responsibility for the future

Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF Party General Branch, affectionately recalled the development history of FISF and outlined the future mission and vision. “This year is the eighth anniversary of Fudan International School of Finance. Eight years ago, driven by a fervent passion and unwavering resolve for financial education, we carried the ‘Three World-class’ goal of world-class academic research and discipline construction, world-class teaching projects and high-end talent cultivation and world-class thinktank research and social influence’ and aimed to restore Fudan’s glory in finance and construct a world-class financial discipline,” he pointed out. Over the eight years, the school has made remarkable achievements in discipline construction, teaching faculty, scientific and research findings and talent cultivation. It sticks to the internationalized mode and gathers a batch of leading scholars worldwide, contributing Fudan wisdom and strength to actively serving the national economic development.

He particularly mentioned that this year the whole school moved to the new building on No.579 of Guoquan Road. “This new campus is a new landmark of Fudan’s modernized smart campus, with not only advanced facilities but also a load of our expectations for the future.” Secretary Yuejiang Li sent his words to the students, wishing everyone make close connections and active exchange on the whole new platform, exploring the mysteries in the financial field hand in hand.

For the 2025 freshmen, he set forth three hopes: firstly, “cherish time and study diligently”, fully utilizing Fudan’s extraordinary comprehensive disciplinary advantages to grow into complex talents equipped with a profound knowledge of finance and interdisciplinary perspectives; secondly, “collaborate with each other for collective success,” absorbing wisdom through free free flow of ideas and sparks of inspiration and actively taking part in scientific research projects and practical activities; and thirdly, “be socially aware and responsibly engaged,” shouldering missions in the great era and cultivating global visions and cross-cultural communication capabilities, “composing a brand new chapter of a world-class financial school with open-mindedness and inclusiveness.”

Integrate diverse perspectives, ground ourselves in introspection, and chart the course forward

The 2025 Opening Ceremony of Fudan International School of Finance specially invited Ms. Jing Lu, President and Vice Board Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited, to deliver a keynote speech. She first gave ardent congratulations and sincere greetings to the freshmen. “Congratulations to all of you upon your entry into FISF, and great thanks to Fudan for its constant efforts in supplying talents to the financial industry. At Standard Chartered, students graduating from Fudan have been taking an active part in various banking markets at home and abroad and taking a number of significant posts.”

President Jing Lu expressed, “Currently the global financial market is undergoing fundamental changes. Technological power represented by artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data and cloud computing is reshaping financial infrastructure. Despite the many uncertainties still existing in today’s world, we can see a quite certain future of China - China will continue to broaden its institutional openness, promote RMB internationalization and become a leader in global green technology and innovation. Small- and medium-sized enterprises in China will keep playing an active role in the global supply chain with their dynamics. The middle-class population in China has ranked top globally, and thus there is a growing need for family wealth management.” She advised the students to maintain openness and introspection, striving to grow into high-quality financial talents with Chinese perspectives, global visions and patriotic devotion. “According to the financial language - the best investment in our life is ourselves. So ask yourself a few questions from time to time: who I am, where I am, and in which direction I am heading to. Whether institutions or individuals, only by building a solid foundation can they cultivate a robust internal compass to avoid losing the way amid a kaleidoscope of changes.” she noted.

In the interaction stage, President Jing Lu shared her further reflections upon topics of RMB internationalization, wealth management, digital assets and stablecoins. “The world needs a more diversified monetary system, and RMB internationalization is a natural and guaranteed step in the commercialization process. The growth of Chinese enterprises and the demand for wealth management also provided huge space for the development of cross-border financial development.” she stated. In terms of new digital financial trends, she remarked, “With the emergence of central bank digital currency, virtual assets and stablecoins, new variables have been injected into the global monetary system. As one of the first-batch foreign banks participating in Digital Yuan Pilot, Standard Chartered Bank holds keen expectations to carry on its exploration and implementation of more innovative solutions in China.”

In the end, she encouraged students to maintain curiosity and humanistic care, and gather the courage to explore and take responsibility. “The financial industry in the future will be more dynamic, diverse and volatile, and thus in a greater need of fresh blood like you who are equipped with cross-domain perspectives and leadership.”

▲ 2025 Undergraduate Student Representative in Finance

Enzhi Xu giving a speech

▲  2025 Student Representative of EMF

Junwei Huang giving a speech

▲ 2025 Student Representative of FMBA FT+ 

Baolu Kang giving a speech

▲ 2025 Student Representative of FMBA PT+

Yue Hong giving a speech

▲2025 Student Representative of AMF

Mingyi Sun giving a speech

▲ 2025 Student Representative of FEMBA

Zhaocheng Zhou giving a speech

Grasping the frontier, fostering academic synergy and bolstering the construction of a strong financial nation: the time is now

“Today’s opening ceremony is also “the first class” given by FISF to all the new students. First let me carry out the required step of a class in a higher education institution - roll call.” In his conclusion speech, Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF and Professor in Finance, humorously started with “roll call” and vividly introduced the basic information of the six programs in 2025 and 323 freshmen, and specially welcomed three newly joined professors.

Later, Professor Jun Qian brought a unique “assignment” for the freshmen - designing an investment portfolio belonging to themselves. He guided the students to reflect upon how to properly allocate assets in future career and different life stages to realize various goals of starting a family, establishing a profession, building a pension reserve fund and serving customers. During the process, he posed three key questions: how many green assets should be allocated in the investment portfolio? How to view the investment opportunities in sci-tech assets presented by AI and big models? And how to understand and grasp the rapidly developing digital assets?

Professor Jun Qian stressed that these questions are not just academic reflections, but also critical issues of the times. “Green finance, sci-tech industry and digital finance are exactly the most frontier fields of finance, and the core direction of constructing a strong financial nation.” He reminded the students that to learn finance, they need to have a good command of theories and instruments, and more importantly, keep innovating in practice and dare to explore the unknown. Just as delivered in the school motto of FISF, “Excellent, Responsibility and Innovation” are both academic requirements and guidance for their future career.

At last, he sent words to the freshmen, “Choosing Fudan means you have chosen to stand at the forefront in the trend of global financial reforms. Hope you can hand in a perfect answer sheet of your own when we gather again at Xianghui Hall in two or four years.”

With the graceful and melodious school song, the opening ceremony concluded successfully. All the freshmen of 2025 GBF, EMF, FMBA FT+, FMBA PT+, AMF and FEMBA will carry forward the century-old spirit of Fudan and compose the epic of a nation leading in finance!

▲ Group photo of 2025 GBF freshmen

▲ Group photo of 2025 EMF freshmen

▲ Group photo of 2025 MBA FT+ freshmen

▲ Group photo of 2025 FMBA PT+ freshmen

▲Group photo of 2025 AMF freshmen