Introduction of Shanghai Finance Association

Engaging in study on finance, Shanghai Finance Association is an academic mass organization composed of professional personnel and finance unit who are devoted to finance study in Shanghai. The objective of association include: unite and organize finance study workers; take the items as guidelines of Marxism – Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theories  and the important thoughts of “Three Representatives”; insist on the basic line and basic program of the Party in the primary stage of socialism; abide by constitution, laws, regulations and state policies; observe social moral vogue; implement policy of “Let a hundred flower blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend”; bring into play the study style of “theory in practice”; develop finance and science; serve the decision-making for government and financial department; serve the construction of social material civilization and spiritual civilization.

Main tasks of the association include:1. organize and drive members to carry out academic activities, make finance study planning, explore economic and finance theory problems, promote prosperity and development of fiancé study; 2. discuss to solve new situations and new problems occurred during economic construction and reform and opening through organizing social investigation and case study, to make better service for real finance work; 3. organize to study and conclude the historical experience of finance work, and discuss the development principles; 4. organize to introduce and study foreign finance theory and management experience; 5. compile and publish finance books and periodicals, publicize financial policies, spread finance operation knowledge and promote members’ finance theory and operation level; 6. hold various type of finance theory forums and report meetings, and carry out various academic exchange activities; 7. reflect suggestions and advices on the finance work of the mass; 8. choose and recommend excellent finance works through public appraisal.

Shanghai Finance Association includes professional personnel in finance field of finance administrative departments, finance organizations and higher colleges etc throughout the city. There are now 722 individual members, where 119 directors, 52 standing directors. People’s Bank of China, Shanghai Headquarters is the chairman unit. There are 15 vice chairman units, including: CBRC Shanghai Bureau, CSRC Shanghai Bureau, CIRC Shanghai Bureau, Foreign Exchange Transaction Center, China Unicom, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Shanghai Branch, Agricultural Bank of China Shanghai Branch, Bank of China Shanghai Branch, Construction Bank of China Shanghai Branch, Bank of Communications Shanghai Branch, Pudong Development Bank, Shanghai Bank, Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai Finance University.

Shanghai Finance

Shanghai Finance is a monthly-issued periodical since 1980, with the Chinese Serial Number 31-1160/F, Ads Business License Number 3101154000328, and Tax Registration Number 310103501769395. It is launched by Shanghai Monetary Society, with Zhejiang Monetary Society and Fujian Monetary Society run as the affiliates, while the People’s Bank of China Shanghai Branch performs as the supervisor. Shanghai Finance is recognized as “Chinese Core Periodical”, “Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index Periodical”, “Excellent Periodical in Eastern China”, and “The People’s Bank of China Excellent Periodical”.
Shanghai Finance is a professional financial academic publication, with dedication to combine national policy with financial theory and practice. Steering on the frontier of Chinese financial reform, it has always been devoted to discovering financial theories, serving financial reform, and reflecting financial practice. Seeing that theory is closely derived from the practice is the most extinguished style and characteristics of Shanghai Finance. It covers major columns including “Feature”, “Economics & Finance”, “Monetary Policy Research”, “Financial Supervision”, “Financial Market”, “Foreign Exchange Management”, “International Finance”, “Financial Practice Research”, and so on. Its main readers consist of practitioners in financial sectors, faculty and alumni majoring in economics and finance in academic institutions, researchers of economic and financial theories, and other people engaged in relevant sectors.
Shanghai Finance is a highly market-driven publication, which runs on its own, in sense of issuing, ads and other businesses. Its current circulation is roughly 20,000.