Introduction

Lujiazui Forum was initiated in December 2007, against the backdrop of a rapidly growing Chinese financial market and its increasing impact on the world economy, as an annual high-level global platform for influential government officials, world financial leaders and outstanding scholars to discuss and foster international financial cooperation and further financial reform and market opening in China. Named after the financial district of Shanghai, China’s financial capital, the Forum also symbolizes Shanghai’s vision of becoming a leading international financial center.