2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services Financial Services Special Topic Closing

China News Service, Beijing, September 13 (Reporter Du Yan) The five-day 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services came to an end on the 13th. As one of the nine major topics of the CIFTIS, this financial services topic focuses on the core theme of "AI Digital Intelligence Empowerment" and focuses on the two major display directions of technological finance and cross-border finance. It not only attracted 50 internationally renowned foreign financial institutions from more than 20 countries and regions to appear, It has attracted audiences from all over the world to watch the exhibition and listen to the event, and has built four major platforms: "global financial innovative product and service display, important policy and industry rule release, partner negotiation, and cutting-edge financial experience", demonstrating China's financial development attitude of inclusiveness, openness and win-win.

Based on the forefront of the country's financial opening up, this year's Financial Services Fair brought together 75 diverse and high-quality Chinese and foreign exhibitors, including 53 Fortune 500 companies and industry leading companies, including 39 domestic institutions and 36 foreign-funded institutions, with an internationalization rate of 48%.

In the main exhibition area of ​​approximately 12,700 square meters on the second floor of Hall 4 of Shougang Park, domestic leading financial institutions made a collective appearance. The China Development Bank made its appearance with a high-speed railway-shaped booth, presenting a panoramic view of its practical achievements in serving major infrastructure construction such as the "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal" high-speed rail network, the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway, and the China-Europe Railway Express. The Agricultural Development Bank of China, with the theme of "Digital Intelligence Empowering the 'Three Rural Areas'", used digital human interaction, satellite remote sensing applications and other forms to demonstrate comprehensive services to rural areas. The vivid practice of revitalization and the construction of an agricultural power; the Beijing Financial Assets Exchange demonstrates the platform functions of serving the inter-bank market issuance transactions and supporting the issuance of panda bonds... More than 40 institutions comprehensively demonstrated the outstanding results and forward-looking layout of the financial industry in deepening reforms and building a modern financial system from a diversified and multi-level perspective.

At the same time, 36 internationally renowned foreign financial institutions, including HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and MasterCard, demonstrated innovative practices and implementation scenarios in terms of serving enterprises' "going overseas" and "bringing in" two-way economic and trade activities, assisting technological innovation, and empowering the digital transformation of the real economy.

With the theme of "From the Center to the Future", the Beijing Financial Street Exhibition Hall is divided into multiple areas such as "Forging ahead, moving towards reality", "Planning a new journey and pursuing the future", dialogue space and other areas, presenting the development results, industrial ecology, policy initiatives and future blueprint of Beijing Financial Street in an all-round and multi-dimensional manner; the core visual installation of the Fengtai exhibition area is taken from Lize SOHO's "Eye of the Night Sky", and the digital floor screen at your feet depicts Fengtai. The scene map of Taiwan, especially the Lize Financial Business District section, uses "innovation, vitality, beauty, humanities, and the future" to tell what Lize is doing and what Lize has... At this service trade fair, Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chaoyang, Haidian, Fengtai, Tongzhou, Shunyi, Shijingshan and other districts concentrated on displaying the achievements of the "two districts" construction in the financial field and the practice of regional financial industry agglomeration, presenting the diverse vitality of the capital's financial ecology.

This financial services topic closely follows the core theme of "AI digital intelligence empowerment", integrating artificial intelligence and digital technology innovation throughout exhibition displays, forum activities and supporting experiences. The Bank of China showcased the BOC Kuateng system, which relies on internal and external data resources to carry out digital modeling to provide digital support for the expansion of technology finance and industrial chain finance; the "ICBC Intelligent Policy" AI large model presents second-level responses to core business scenarios such as credit approval and risk warning; the Bank of Communications booth experience area is equipped with "video-based Zhiyitong" machines to create a new intelligent service experience integrating human-computer interaction through the "customer self-service + remote assistance" model. Visitors can connect to remote video customer service with one click, and the "Cloud Bank of Communications" professional team provides real-time operational guidance through voice consultation, screen sharing and other functions, allowing customers to intuitively experience the service convenience brought by financial technology. Focusing on the theme of "digital and intelligent Bank of Communications integrates the future", through LED high-definition screens, interactive experience areas and zero-distance negotiation areas, the latest practices of technology-empowered financial services are demonstrated.

The door to financial services is opening wider and wider, and more and more domestic and foreign exhibitors are coming to the CIFTIS to embrace new opportunities in financial development. In particular, many exhibitions closely follow the needs of enterprises for global development, demonstrate the "one-stop" overseas service system, and use financial power to protect the global development of enterprises.

The Export-Import Bank of China demonstrated "green overseas" cases such as supporting the Sinoma·Cement Kazakhstan project; Bank of China, with the theme of "Sailing Overseas with Bank of China's Accompanying", demonstrated the "product + industry + country" three-dimensional service system and the "one-point access, global response" mechanism, and launched the "Top Ten Overseas Industry Service Plans" and "Export-Import Bank of China" "Sea Country Service Guide" and showcased "Belt and Road" cross-border financing benchmark projects such as Nicaragua Airport and Uzbekistan Photovoltaic Power Station; Bank of Communications, which has participated in the exhibition for the seventh time, has specially created a cross-border financial display area to showcase the advantages of comprehensive cross-border financial services with the "Five-in-One" diversified account service system as the core. At the same time, relying on the RMB global account service system, it provides customers with cross-border RMB comprehensive services such as cross-border RMB trade settlement, investment and financing, financial market services, RMB and foreign exchange rate risk management, and assists cross-border economic and trade exchanges and the development of the real economy.

Finance for the people is not a slogan, but a palpable temperature. The "Digital RMB Avenue" that has attracted much attention in the past has been fully upgraded this year. Focusing on the core positioning of "technology + fashion + interaction", a "future financial fashion experience area" of nearly 1,000 square meters has been created for the first time. At the scene, the audience can not only experience artificial intelligence digital human interaction, smart shopping, digital RMB one-click payment, smart red envelopes and other financial services, but also participate in interesting projects such as robotic arm drinking, laser engraving, AI animation shooting, etc., making the financial experience full of technology and fireworks.

This year's financial services special topic also created three major theme activity systems: high-end forums, supporting activities, and negotiation and promotion. The level of forum activities has been upgraded to create a series of forums on "Finance Assists the High-Quality Development of the Real Economy"; supporting activities include a series of "digital intelligence empowerment, finance benefits people's livelihood" series of activities; the exhibition area has built an international financial living room and financial results release hall, and held new product launches, cooperation salons, project roadshows, investor exchange meetings and other activities; the "Financial Express" precise matchmaking meeting promotes accurate matching of industry and finance, and realizes pragmatic transformation from "display" to "closing".

The five-day series of financial special events of the CIFTIS has come to an end, and the pace of open cooperation will not stop. A series of dialogues and negotiations, a series of innovative achievements, this year's financial topic of the CIFTIS uses digital innovation to connect open, inclusive, and green financial practices, promote Chinese and foreign financial institutions to deepen exchanges and cooperation, and global market entities to share development opportunities.