From August 13 to 15, 2025, focusing on the integration of financial big data teaching and research and regional collaboration, the 2025 Huaihai Economic Zone Financial Big Data Teaching and Research Empowerment Seminar was grandly held at the Nanhu Campus of China University of Mining and Technology. This grand event was jointly initiated and hosted by the Department of Finance of China University of Mining and Technology, the Special Task Force for the Development of the Huaihai Economic Zone Financial Service Center, the Yunlong District Committee Talent Office, and the Huaihai Quantitative Development Alliance, with strong support from Shenzhen Dian Kuan Network Technology Co., Ltd.
In this season of golden autumn with a promising harvest, full of vitality and hope, about 40 heads of finance-related majors and key teachers from universities in seven cities across the four provinces of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui gathered together for this grand event. Participating universities included Huaibei Normal University, Jiangsu Ocean University, Jiangsu Normal University, Linyi University, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu University, Suqian University, Xuzhou University of Technology, Zaozhuang University, China University of Mining and Technology, and CUMT Xuhai College — a total of 11 universities in the Huaihai Economic Zone. This seminar has pioneered the establishment of a new platform for exchanges and cooperation in the field of higher education for regional financial collaborative development.
The purpose of the conference was to deeply integrate resources from government, industry, academia, research, and application, driven by data and powered by technology, to empower financial talent cultivation, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and jointly build a precise and efficient regional financial ecosystem. At present, the cities in the Huaihai Economic Zone are in a critical stage of industrial structural upgrading, making it the right time and favorable momentum to promote high-quality collaborative financial development. The 2022 National Economic and Social Development Plan Report clearly proposed to “promote the collaborative development of the Huaihai Cooperation Zone.” With strong support and careful guidance from the National Development and Reform Commission and the four provincial DRCs of Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, and Henan, Xuzhou City has taken the lead in mapping out the High-Quality Collaborative Development Plan for the Huaihai Economic Zone, providing a clear blueprint for collaborative development in the financial sector. With finance and talent at the forefront, relevant departments in Xuzhou put forward proposals such as the Proposal on Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Financial Services and Building and Operating the Huaihai Economic Zone Financial Service Center with High Quality, which emphasizes high-quality financial talent cultivation as a key lever for building the central city. Faced with the continuously expanding scale of finance graduates in regional universities and the increasingly prominent structural gap in industry talent demand, this seminar came at the right time and is of profound significance.
At the opening ceremony, Professor Wang Xinyu, Chairman of the Xuzhou Municipal Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, Director of the Library of China University of Mining and Technology, and Member of the Ministry of Education Teaching Steering Committee for Management Science and Engineering, Mr. Huang Song, Chairman of Shenzhen Dian Kuan Network Technology Co., Ltd., and Mr. Li Kaifeng, Director of the Department of Finance, School of Economics and Management, CUMT, respectively delivered wonderful speeches.
In his speech, Professor Wang Xinyu pointed out profoundly that the deep integration of big data science with engineering and the financial field has become an irreversible trend. He emphasized its key significance for cultivating high-quality financial talent and driving the upgrading of the financial big data industry in the Huaihai Economic Zone. Chairman Huang Song stressed the importance of implementing fintech talent cultivation in universities. He expressed his hope that through this discussion, sufficient communication could be carried out from the perspective and orientation of enterprises, to empower finance with technology, and to raise the level of fintech talent cultivation in the next stage. Director Li Kaifeng systematically reviewed the construction process of the Huaihai Financial Cluster and the development achievements of the Financial Task Force, and expressed sincere gratitude to the Huaihai Quantitative Development Alliance and all partners for their strong support for the event.
At the conference, two important unveiling ceremonies were held: the Huaihai Quantitative Development Alliance and Shenzhen Dian Kuan Company jointly established the “Quantitative Finance Training Practice Base”; Director Li Kaifeng and Chairman Huang Song jointly unveiled the “Fintech Research and Innovation Base,” marking a new stage of industry-university-research cooperation.
Chairman Huang Song delivered a keynote speech entitled Technological Transformation of Fintech in Intelligent Investment Research. He deeply analyzed the technological innovations and interactive value brought by fintech in the field of intelligent investment research, reaffirmed the core position of fundamental research in the direction of economic management, emphasized the importance of building client investment systems and optimizing asset allocation, shared practice cases of world-leading enterprises, and looked forward to the application prospects and development trends of intelligent investment research.
On the afternoon of August 13, Director Li Kaifeng, taking CUMT as an example, focused on the challenges under the background of economic cycle fluctuations and deeply explored the innovation and practice of the Department of Finance’s talent cultivation model. As the organizer of this seminar, CUMT has been committed to building a collaborative mechanism among government, industry, academia, research, and application, aiming to deepen the integration of industry and education by optimizing the financial education system and to accurately deliver adaptive, interdisciplinary financial talents for regional development.
In the subsequent thematic discussions, university teachers focused on the theme of digital transformation in fintech, and had heated discussions on topics such as discipline system restructuring, innovation of talent cultivation pathways, and interdisciplinary integration of “finance + technology.” They focused on cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and quantitative investment, sparking collisions of ideas and providing insightful new approaches to discipline construction and talent cultivation for the transformation and upgrading of finance majors.
On August 14, the conference focused on topics of financial big data discipline competitions and program development. Teacher representatives from CUMT, Jiangsu Normal University, and other universities shared valuable experiences in turn. In the afternoon, all participants visited the Financial Laboratory of the School of Economics and Management, CUMT, for on-site learning and in-depth exchange.
On August 15, participants collectively visited key enterprises in the financial service sector, including the One-Stop Financial Service Center in Yunsheng Financial Building, the Huaihai Economic Zone Carbon Asset Trading Center, Shanghai Nonconvex Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Xuzhou Branch, Huatai Securities Xuzhou Branch, and Dalong Lake Reception Hall, and carried out active interactions and in-depth discussions at the Roadshow Center. Visitors highly praised the high-level construction achievements of the Financial Service Center and the advanced concepts and efficient operations of the Financial Task Force.
As an important outcome of this seminar, all parties reached a consensus: universities cultivating financial talents in the region will establish a normalized exchange mechanism, further deepen strategic cooperation with the Xuzhou Financial Task Force, make full use of the bridging role of the task force, and carry out comprehensive and in-depth practical cooperation in areas such as joint cultivation of digital finance talents, co-construction of internship and training bases, and promotion of student employment.
Written by: Li Kaifeng, Lei Haibei, Meng Ziru, et al.
Photography: Huang Zihuang, Meng Ziru, Zhang Anning, et al.
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