Recently, the 2025 Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI) Anniversary Meeting & Dishui Lake International Conference in Finance (the “Conference”) has successfully kicked off. At the Conference, DAFI launched its AI Finance Curriculum System and gathered global well-known scholars to deliver speeches. Official media and financial media outlets such as Xinhua Finance, China News Service, Wenhui Daily, Shanghai Securities News, Securities Times, Pudong TV, and Guangzhou Daily paid extensive attention to the Conference and introduced wide coverage on the Conference on major sections.
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Xinhua Finance: DAFI Celebrates Its 2nd Anniversary and Launches Its "AI Finance Curriculum System"
Key Coverage Points: QIU Jiaping stated that as a key area in the Institute’s “5+1” strategic layout, the AI Finance Curriculum System was guided by a global perspective and driven by industry practice. It would further strengthen the Institute’s professional advantages and structural leadership in cultivating cutting-edge financial talents. Meanwhile, the Master's and PhD in AI Finance Programswere launched simultaneously at the Conference, marking that SUFE-DAFI’s development of an AI-driven financial education system entered a new phase, and providing an experimental platform for exploring financial education innovation featuring “data empowering intelligence and intelligence empowering research”.
China News Service: 2025 Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute Anniversary Meeting & Dishui Lake International Conference in Finance Kicks Off
Key Coverage Points: Since its inauguration in 2023, SUFE-DAFI has always adhered to the school-running orientation of “rooting in Lingang, serving the whole country, and looking to the world”. Focusing on the strategic direction of “Five Key Areas in Finance + Cross-border Finance”, it has continuously advanced core work such as mechanism construction, disciplinary expansion, international cooperation, and talent recruitment and cultivation, gradually building an emerging finance education platform with an international vision and distinctive features.
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Shanghai Securities News: DAFI Celebrates Its 2nd Anniversary and Launches Its "AI Finance Curriculum System"
Key Coverage Points: During the Meeting, Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI) heldan appointment ceremony for a new batch of adjunct professors. Distinguished guests including: NING Gaoning, Former General Manager of China Resources Group, MA Weihua, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Allwave Sustainable Digital Technology, Former Executive Director and President of China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd., CUI Qingjun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of Suzhou, CHEN Rui, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bilibili, LU Ting, Managing Director and Chief China Economist of Nomura Securities were appointed as adjunct professors. They would deeply participate in curriculum co-construction, practical training, and joint talent cultivation, injecting valuable resources into DAFI’s efforts to bridge the gap between theoretical frontiers and industry practices.
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Securities Times: Focusing on Cultivating Emerging Financial Talents - Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute Anniversary Meeting & Dishui Lake International Conference in Finance Kicks Off
Key Coverage Points: YANG Zhengwei, Member of the Party Working Committee and Executive Deputy Director of Lingang New Area Administrative Committee, stated that as a key area of national strategy, Lingang New Area was continuously advancing high-quality financial development, focusing on cross-border finance, financial technology, equity investment, and other fields to accelerate the construction of the “third pole” of finance in Shanghai. He expressed hope that Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI) would further enhance its international influence and core competitiveness, continuously deepen integration with the Lingang industrial ecosystem, and help the new area build a global hub for financial talents and a pilot zone for institutional innovation.
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Pudong TV: DAFI Launches the "AI Finance Curriculum System"
Key Coverage Points: As a key area in the “5+1” strategic layout of Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI), the AI Finance Curriculum System would further strengthen DAFI’s professional advantages and structural leadership in cultivating cutting-edge financial talents. Meanwhile, the Master's and PhD in AI Finance Programswere launched simultaneously at the Conference, marking that DAFI’s development of an AI-driven financial education system entered a new phase.
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Wenhui Daily: DAFI Launches the "AI Finance Curriculum System" and Launches the Master's and PhD in AI Finance Programs
Key Coverage Points: Over the past two years, Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI) had evolved from mechanism establishment to system construction, gradually establishing its strategic position as a platform for emerging finance education and research. Facing the new wave of financial technology, DAFI would adhere to serving national strategies as its orientation and global vision as its guide, explore financial education paths under the background of institutional opening-up, and build a high-end academic platform with functions of ideological co-creation, institutional experimentation, and global connection.
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Guangzhou Daily: Continuously Facilitating Emerging Financial Talent Cultivation and Academic Research Innovation – 2025 Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute Anniversary Meeting & Dishui Lake International Conference in Finance Kicks Off
Key Coverage Points: XU Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), stated in his speech that over the past two years, Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI) had evolved from mechanism establishment to system construction, gradually establishing its strategic position as a platform for emerging finance education and research. Facing the new wave of financial technology, DAFI would adhere to serving national strategies as its orientation and global vision as its guide, explore financial education paths under the background of institutional opening-up, and build a high-end academic platform with functions of ideological co-creation, institutional experimentation, and global connection.
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Guangzhou Daily: What is the Macro-logic Behind Donald Trump’s Strategy? How Can RMB Internationalization Participate in the New International Financial Order? – To Find the Answers from Guests at This Meeting
Key Coverage Points: LIU Yuanchun, President of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), opened the session with a speech titled The MAGA Doctrine and the Future World Economic System. He conducted an in-depth analysis of the macro-logic behind Trump’s economic strategy, pointing out that the “Make America Great Again (MAGA) Doctrine” reflected the U.S. attempts at comprehensive restructuring in trade, manufacturing, and monetary systems.
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Shanghai People’s Radio:Focusing on Cultivation of Cutting-edge Financial Talents – DAFI Launches the "AI Finance Curriculum System"
Key Coverage Points: On the same day, the Conference continued with ten academic parallel sessions in the teaching building of Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI), covering topics such as asset management, cross-border finance, AI finance, sustainable finance, reinsurance, and corporate investment and financing. These sessions invited scholars from key universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Renmin University of China, and Nankai University, as well as industry representatives from Bank of China, Guotai Junan Securities, Ant Group, and Deloitte China, to discuss focus topics such as “technological transformation and institutional innovation”, “cross-border capital and financial opening-up”, and “standardized development of green finance”.
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Pudong Times: DAFI Launches the AI Finance Curriculum System to Facilitate Emerging Financial Talent Cultivation and Academic Research Innovation in Lingang Special Area
Key Coverage Points: At the launch step of the curriculum system, Professor QIU Jiaping elaborated on features of the programs, specifically, the Master’s and PhD in AI Finance Programs not only required students to receive systematic training in financial theories and master financial analysis tools including econometrics and statistics, but also emphasized the application of artificial intelligence as well as the cultivation of business acumen and in-depth data analysis ability, i.e. the programs aimed to cultivate interdisciplinary talents who were well-versed in both finance and technology.
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Standing at the new starting point of its second anniversary, Dishui Lake Advanced Finance Institute (DAFI) will continue to rely on the solid foundation of tripartite co-construction, closely focus on the main line of emerging finance, deepen system and mechanism reforms, expand global resource connections, and strengthen the coordinated linkage of talent cultivation, academic research, and policy support. It will actively create practical scenarios integrating “finance + technology + industry”, continuously enhance DAFI’s comprehensive capabilities in serving national strategies and supporting regional development, and strive to build a world-class financial institute leading the development of emerging finance.
