On the afternoon of December 10, the Faculty of Finance of the City University of Macau held the "40th Anniversary of City University of Macau Finance Seminar Series [9]". The speaker was Professor Ren Rongwei, Secretary of the School of Business of Sun Yat-sen University, Dean of Entrepreneurship College, and Deputy Director of the Guangdong Entrepreneurship and Employment Guidance Committee. The theme was “Deep Integration of Technology and Finance in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.”

    Due to the impact of the epidemic, the seminar was conducted via a live webcast, but it did not affect the enthusiasm of the students. First of all, Professor Ren talked about several problems such as how to integrate technology and finance, how to integrate in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and how to integrate with Macau industry. To solve these problems, he believes that it is necessary to enhance the strength of Guangdong's independent entrepreneurship and innovation from the macro level and focus on the cultivation of talents and to deepen theoretical research at the same time. However, the most important thing is to conduct policy research and analysis for existing system problems.

  Secondly, Professor Ren took different regions at home and abroad as examples to analyze in depth the ways in which finance and technology are integrated in the world. In foreign countries, he took the United States, Japan, and Europe as examples, and explained their government strategic planning, taxation, laws and support policies through the list of system innovations in the integration of science and technology in these countries. Domestically, he explored the development of financial technology of Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guizhou, Guangdong and other places. He found problems and got enlightenment after listing in detail the background, characteristics and development measures of science and technology development in different regions.

    Next, the seminar covered the future feasible research directions of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Professor Ren believed that the government needs to improve the source quality, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, promote the high-quality innovative development of enterprises, lay out regional innovation nodes, and accelerate the integration of technology and finance; great importance needs to be attached to innovation in the technical aspect; the flow of international talents in the Greater Bay Area should be promoted; and in terms of capital, a series of innovative policies should be conducted to solve contradiction, upgrade the project selection mechanism and guide the capital inflow.

    The  seminar ended with enthusiastic applause. The students said that this seminar gave them a deeper understanding of the integration of technology and finance in the Greater Bay Area. The integration problems, which are needed to be solved urgently, stimulated the students' desire to research and explore financial technology.

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