A group of senior executives of noted Chinese enterprises offered suggestions on financial opening-up and replacing the old growth drivers with new ones on Oct 18 at two forums of the 2018 China (Jinan) International Forum on Industrial Finance, which kicked off in Shandong provincial capital city of Jinan on Oct 17.

Liu Zhengrong, vice president of Xinhua News Agency, and vice mayors of the city Xu Qun and Li Zijun attended the meetings.

They exchanged ideas on branding and capital operation, shared experience on starting new business, investment opportunity, and project docking with local companies and officials.

At the forums, the city promoted its development strategy and preferential policies on industrial finance and docked high-quality local industries with noted Chinese brands, hoping the latter will become deeply involved in the growth driver replacement project through investing in Jinan.

In addition, experts and scholars from home and abroad discussed new ideas and plans for innovative financial support of the real economy as well as opening-up of Jinan's financial sector.

At present, the city has become a highland of financial resources in Shandong and a regional financial center in China. Industrial finance, one of the ten 100-billion-yuan industries of Jinan, has entered the fast track of development.