Professor Charles Zhang and Professor Xiaoyin Ma Attend Huangpu District Fintech Youth Open Mic Event | Info

Release time：2025-10-31    

On October 29^th, “Huangpu Youth Power: A New Engine for Fintech” - the Huangpu District Fintech Youth Open Mic Event was held at the Bund FTC. Present at the event were Bin Wu, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and Chairman of the Shanghai Youth Federation, Jing Lu, Vice Chairman of Huangpu District CPPCC, and leaders from relevant departments including the District Committee of the Communist Youth League, the District Development and Reform Commission, and the District Investment Promotion Office. The event gathered experts and youth representatives from the academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge trends of fintech and inject vigorous youthful dynamism into the development of Huangpu District Fintech Cluster.

Charles Zhang, Deputy Dean of Academics at FISF, Director of Fintech Research Center and Professor in Finance, delivered a keynote address, making an in-depth analysis on the intrinsic logic and development prospects of the fintech ecosystem from an academic perspective, offering profound inspiration to the youth.

He expressed that technologies within the fintech industry ecosystem are by no means isolated, but rather closely interconnected with and mutually reinforcing each other, with different regions assuming distinct functional roles in the overall layout. The “A+B+C+D” new finance model exemplifies this, where the unique attributes of various sectors empower one another to generate effective synergy.

In the TED Talk session themed “Youth Empowerment, Future of Fintech”, Ma Xiaoyin, Member of the Huangpu District Youth Federation and Young Associate Researcher at FISF, delivered a speech titled “Fintech in Its Youth”, sharing his profound insights from both practice in sci-tech finance and research in fintech, demonstrating the innovative vitality and sense of responsibility of young talents.

Charles Zhang, Bin Wu and Jing Lu jointly launched the 2025 Huangpu District “Doorway of Light · Fintech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition”, marking the full activation of a key platform in Huangpu empowering fintech aspirations. The competition aims to discover and nurture outstanding projects and talents in the fintech field through a competitive mechanism, injecting robust momentum into the development of new quality productive forces.

This event not only provided a platform of idea exchange and experience sharing for brilliant young minds in the field of fintech, but also, through a series of practical measures, demonstrated the open attitude and firm resolve of Huangpu District to attract young talents. Together, they composed a vibrant youth movement driving the advancement of fintech.