As a future emerging financial center of Shanghai and an important component of Shanghai International Financial Center construction, Lin-Gang Special Area shows strong momentum in industrial development. Financial institutions are gathering in Lin-Gang at an accelerated pace. Dishui Lake Financial Bay, as one of the core carriers of “Special Economic Functional Zone” of Lin-gang Special Area, is also the important platform to create new driving forces for industrial development and build a new ecosystem of financial services. Centering on the construction goals of "Five Importants Instrutions" and the strategic layout of Shanghai International Financial Center "One City, One Zone, One Bay", Dishui Lake Financial Bay is striving to become a new highland for emerging financial agglomeration, a model room for fintech development, a pilot field for connecting with international rules, and a preferred destination for financial talents all the world. Dishui Lake Financial Bay is helping the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center to move towards higher levels.

With the aim to further demonstrate Chinese determination in expanding high-level opening-up to the world and fully demonstrating the positive results of Lin-gang Special Area's deep ploughing of the " pilot field" of financial opening-up, Conference Secretarial based on the profound industrial advantages and opening institutional system of the Lin-gang Special Area organized the first Dishui Lake Emerging Financial Conference on the occasion of the third anniversary of the establishment of the Lin-gang Special Area. Conference Secretariat will focus on Dishui Lake Emerging Financial Conference and its series of activities, constantly strengthen communication with government, financial institutions, international organizations, and enterprises, give full play to the advantages of the platform, gather more domestic and foreign resources, and make positive contributions to the construction of the Shanghai International Financial Center and the development of the Lin-gang Special Area. Dishui Lake Fiancial Bay will be built into a new engine for financial openness and innovative development in the Lin-gang Special Area, and serve the new development pattern of two circles of economic activity better.

As the testing ground to take China’s reform and opening up to the next level, Lingang Special Area is committed to its “Five Important Instruction” as specified by General Secretary Xi, to support Shanghai in its new mission to be a financial center with global influence. With Dishui Lake Financial Bay—Shanghai’s third headquarters of financial services—as its backbone, Lin-Gang drives financial innovation and serves the real economy as part of its ongoing agenda to build a more internationally recognized “special economic function zone” and become a powerful growth engine of the city.

Promoting next-generation finance is an important future-ready initiative of Lingang to create new growth drivers and renew the ecosystem of financial services. The second Dishui Lake Emerging Finance Conference will be held on December 8 (Friday), 2023 at Dishui Lake in Lingang to facilitate ecosystem development. It is designed to be a forum for discussions on further liberalization of China’s financial sector and a milestone in Shanghai’s efforts to grow into a world-renowned financial hub.