On August 16, the first seminar of "China International Finance 30 Forum" co-sponsored by Beijing Foreign Studies University, People’s Livelihood Economic Research Institute of Tsinghua University, and Shanghai Development Research Foundation, and co-organized by ICFS and the International Finance Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) was held in Beijing. Prof. LIU Xiliang, Honorary Director of ICFS, and Prof. WANG Qing, Director of ICFS, attended the forum.

The theme of this forum is "International Finance under the New Global Situation: Goals and Tasks". YANG Dan (President of Beijing Foreign Studies University) and QIAO Yide (Vice President and Secretary-General of Shanghai Development Research Foundation) delivered speeches respectively on behalf of organizers. SHANG Fulin, former chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and ZHANG Tao, vice president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), addressed the forum and delivered speeches respectively. YU Yongding, a member of CASS and chairman of the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Development Research Foundation, gave a keynote speech on "Monetarism and Inflation". ZHANG Yuyan, a member of CASS, director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, and chairman of the National Global Strategy Think Tank, raised several open questions about the future international monetary system. Thirty experts and scholars from domestic and foreign scientific research institutions, universities, government agencies, and financial institutions gave keynote speeches on " the Strategic Impact on China Under Global Financial Changes" and "Renminbi Internationalization".