[The 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Meeting Opens Today] October 19, 2026 The 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Meeting opened in Beijing on the afternoon of October 19. The theme of this annual meeting is "Openness, Cooperation, Inclusion - Building a New Ecosystem for Global Financial Development". Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, Ding Xiangqun, Director of the State Administration of Financial Supervision, Wu Qing, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and Zhu Hexin, Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, will deliver keynote speeches at the opening ceremony. The conference will last until October 22, and will host a total of 21 topic activities including the main forum and parallel forums, as well as three special conferences including the FinTech Conference, the Insurance Conference, and the Investment Conference. More than 400 important guests from more than 40 countries and regions around the world will attend. In addition, this forum’s annual meeting will achieve “three firsts”. The African branch event will be held for the first time; Beijing, Hong Kong and London will be connected for the first time; and the State Administration of Financial Supervision will host an insurance conference at the Financial Street Forum annual meeting for the first time.