From October 27 to 30, 2025, the Financial Street Forum Annual Conference will be held in Beijing’s Financial Street. With the theme “Global Financial Development Under Innovation, Transformation, and Reshaping,” this annual event once again positions this core area of just 2.59 square kilometers as a global hub for capital, ideas, and opportunities.
Amid global economic uncertainties, Beijing Financial Street is gaining new vitality in the new era—guided by the “Five Key Financial Areas” and aiming to build a highland for asset management, creating a “Beijing model” for serving the construction of a financial powerhouse.
Building the Future with Strength
As the core area of China’s national financial management center, Beijing Financial Street is one of the regions with the highest concentration of financial institutions and talent, the largest flow of RMB assets, and the most significant economic contributions. Leveraging its unique advantages, Financial Street is accelerating the development of an internationally influential asset management hub.
By the end of 2024, asset management institutions in Xicheng District managed assets exceeding 20 trillion yuan, accounting for approximately half of the city’s total and about one-eighth of the national total. Currently, Financial Street hosts over 260 asset management institutions, integrating financing, investment, operation, and management to form a comprehensive asset management system covering banking, securities, insurance, and other sectors.
Effective asset management goes beyond managing wealth—it manages trust and shapes the future. Government investment funds are increasingly directed toward early-stage, small-scale, long-term, and hard-tech projects, providing patient capital for sustained enterprise development and strengthening the connection between Beijing Financial Street and the real economy. In the first three quarters of this year, Beijing’s financial sector achieved an added value of 670 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%. Financial momentum continues to flow into the real economy, with Financial Street playing a prominent role as the capital’s primary financial district.
As the birthplace of China’s financial policy standards, a hub for financial headquarters, and home to financial infrastructure, Financial Street’s functions in decision-making, regulation, standard-setting, and asset management are increasingly prominent. It has essentially formed a diversified financial institution system led by industry-leading financial organizations and supported by various collaborative institutions.
“In terms of industrial layout, Financial Street will focus on building a more resilient, dynamic, and internationally modern financial system,” stated a representative. “Financial Street will enhance its capacity to attract international financial resources, actively introduce foreign financial institutions with global resource allocation capabilities, consolidate and strengthen the core functions of national financial management, and form a higher-quality cluster of institutions. Simultaneously, it will enhance core capital market functions, leverage the Beijing Stock Exchange to promote the listing and market value management of high-quality enterprises, and strengthen equity financing services for small and medium-sized enterprises and the innovation economy.”
Connecting with the World Through Openness
In recent years, Financial Street has fully supported and undertaken national financial reform and opening-up initiatives, gradually forming a pattern of openness from institutions to business operations and then to markets. Data shows that Financial Street, occupying less than 0.02% of Beijing’s area, contributes nearly 70% of the city’s financial industry tax revenue and about 35% of its financial sector added value. Financial institutions in Xicheng District manage assets exceeding 156 trillion yuan, accounting for approximately one-third of the national total. Undoubtedly, this is a financial hotspot where “density defines influence.”
In March of this year, a private fund management company moved into Financial Street’s Yinglan International Financial Center. Shortly after relocating, the company received a visit from the Xicheng District government. A company representative noted that such a business environment made them feel “not alone in their efforts.”
The 2025 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference will welcome over 400 distinguished guests from more than 30 countries and regions. Since 2021, the forum has established branch venues, gradually building a “1+N” model of domestic and international coordination. This year, the forum innovatively set up five overseas branch venues, including Hong Kong, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Abu Dhabi, and New York. Topics will cover Beijing-Hong Kong financial cooperation, China-Europe investment promotion, China-U.S. financial exchanges, China-Arab financial cooperation, and financing and intellectual support for Belt and Road and neighboring countries.
“This reflects the continuous expansion of Financial Street’s ‘circle of friends’ and represents an important step in actively practicing a new paradigm of two-way openness—’inviting in’ and ‘going out,'” commented a representative from the Beijing Financial Street Service Bureau. “Hosting overseas branch venues opens new windows for global capital to understand China while proactively promoting Chinese solutions to the global market, demonstrating China
