Wang Jiang 王 江, Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Financial Commission and Executive Deputy Secretary of the Central Financial Work Commission 中央金融委员会办公室分管日常工作的副主任、中央金融工作委员会分管日常工作的副书记

People's Daily 人民日报 (December 03, 2025, Page 09)

https://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/pc/content/202512/03/content_30118093.html

In October 2023, at the Central Financial Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly proposed the grand goal of accelerating the construction of a financial strong country for the first time. In January 2024, at a special seminar for principal leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level on promoting high-quality financial development, he further expounded in a profound and systematic manner on the main characteristics, target orientation, and practical requirements of a financial strong country. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward clear requirements and made strategic plans for accelerating the construction of a financial strong country during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. This provides the basic adherence for doing financial work solidly and efficiently during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. We must deeply study and comprehend this, and grasp its implementation to the letter.

习近平总书记2023年10月在中央金融工作会议上首次明确提出加快建设金融强国的宏伟目标，2024年1月又在省部级主要领导干部推动金融高质量发展专题研讨班上进一步对金融强国的主要特征、目标指向、实践要求等进行了深入系统阐述。党的二十届四中全会对“十五五”时期加快建设金融强国提出明确要求、作出战略部署，为扎实高效做好“十五五”时期金融工作提供了基本遵循，必须深刻学习领会，不折不扣抓好贯彻落实。

I. Deeply Understand the Major Significance of Accelerating the Construction of a Financial strong country

一、深刻认识加快建设金融强国的重大意义

Accelerating the construction of a financial strong country is a magnificent blueprint drawn by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core for the development of China's financial cause, focusing on the overall situation of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. It has extremely significant and far-reaching guiding significance for doing a good job in financial work in the new era and on the new journey.

加快建设金融强国，是以习近平同志为核心的党中央着眼于以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业全局，为我国金融事业发展擘画的壮阔蓝图，对于做好新时代新征程金融工作具有极其重大而深远的指导意义。

Accelerating the construction of a financial strong country is an inevitable requirement for comprehensively building a modern socialist power. Realizing socialist modernization is an overall goal formed by the coupling of sub-goals in various fields. The relationship between building a financial strong country and comprehensively building a modern socialist power is one where the part obeys the whole and the sub-goal serves the overall goal. On the one hand, a modern power must be a financial power; finance is the bloodline of the national economy, an important component of national core competitiveness, and a strategic imperative in the competition between major powers. The construction of a modern socialist power cannot be separated from the key support of a strong financial system. On the other hand, the construction of a financial strong country is not isolated; finance must always take root in and serve the high-level socialist market economy, and always achieve co-existence and co-prosperity with the real economy, in order to realize this grand goal in the great process of promoting Chinese modernization.

加快建设金融强国是全面建成社会主义现代化强国的必然要求。实现社会主义现代化是由各领域分目标耦合而形成的整体目标，建设金融强国与全面建成社会主义现代化强国之间是局部服从整体、分目标服务于整体目标的关系。一方面，现代化强国必然是金融强国，金融是国民经济的血脉，是国家核心竞争力的重要组成部分，是大国博弈的必争之地，社会主义现代化强国建设离不开强大金融体系的关键支撑。另一方面，金融强国建设又不是孤立的，金融必须始终扎根和服务于高水平社会主义市场经济，始终做到与实体经济共生共荣，才能在推进中国式现代化的伟大进程中实现这一宏伟目标。

Accelerating the construction of a financial strong country is an inevitable requirement for promoting high-quality development. High-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and is also the theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. To successfully realize the various key strategic tasks clarified by the Plenary Session and to achieve new results in promoting high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must accelerate the construction of a financial strong country, strive to create a favorable monetary and financial environment, and practically strengthen high-quality financial services for major strategies, key areas, and weak links. For example, to accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, we must accelerate the construction of a technology finance system to provide full-life-cycle and full-chain financial services for scientific and technological innovation. For another example, to solidly promote common prosperity for all people, we must introduce more solid and effective financial support measures in optimizing regional economic layout, promoting coordinated regional development, consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation, and promoting comprehensive rural revitalization.

加快建设金融强国是推动高质量发展的必然要求。高质量发展是全面建设社会主义现代化国家的首要任务，也是“十五五”时期经济社会发展的主题。要顺利实现全会明确的各项重点战略任务，推动“十五五”时期高质量发展取得新成效，必须加快建设金融强国，着力营造良好的货币金融环境，切实加强对重大战略、重点领域和薄弱环节的优质金融服务。例如，为加快高水平科技自立自强，必须加快构建科技金融体制，为科技创新提供全生命周期、全链条的金融服务。再如，为扎实推进全体人民共同富裕，必须在优化区域经济布局、促进区域协调发展、巩固拓展脱贫攻坚成果、推进乡村全面振兴等方面出台更多扎实有效的金融支持措施。

Accelerating the construction of a financial strong country is an inevitable requirement for coordinating development and security. Financial security is an important part of national security and relates to the long-term stability of the country. Over the more than forty years of reform and opening up, China has not experienced a financial crisis, which is unique among major countries in the world and has played an important role in China's creation of the miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. However, we must also clearly see that the risks and challenges facing China's financial sector during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period remain complex and severe, especially as external suppression and containment may escalate at any time. To write a new chapter of the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability on the new journey in the new era, we must firmly base ourselves on unswervingly managing our own affairs well, accelerate the construction of a financial strong country, effectively enhance overall financial strength, international competitiveness, and risk resistance capabilities, powerfully, orderly, and effectively prevent and resolve major financial risks, comprehensively strengthen financial supervision, firmly hold the bottom line of no systemic risks, and continuously promote the positive interaction between high-quality financial development and high-level security.

加快建设金融强国是统筹发展和安全的必然要求。金融安全是国家安全的重要组成部分，关系国家长治久安。改革开放四十多年来，我国没有发生过金融危机，这在世界大国中独一无二，对于我国创造经济快速发展、社会长期稳定的奇迹发挥了重要作用。但也要清醒看到，“十五五”时期我国金融领域面临的风险挑战仍然复杂严峻，特别是来自外部的打压遏制随时可能升级。要在新时代新征程续写经济快速发展和社会长期稳定两大奇迹新篇章，必须牢牢立足坚定不移办好自己的事，加快建设金融强国，切实增强金融整体实力、国际竞争力和抗风险能力，有力有序有效防范化解重大金融风险，全面加强金融监管，牢牢守住不发生系统性风险的底线，不断促进金融高质量发展和高水平安全良性互动。

II. Deeply Grasp the Theoretical Connotation and Practical Requirements of Accelerating the Construction of a Financial strong country

二、深刻把握加快建设金融强国的理论内涵和实践要求

Building a financial strong country is a pioneering undertaking with strong systemic, innovative, and practical characteristics. We must persist in taking Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, comprehensively implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and instructions on financial work, adhere to goal orientation and problem orientation, and deeply grasp the main characteristics, the inevitable path, key tasks, and fundamental support of building a financial strong country.

建设金融强国是一项开创性事业，具有很强的系统性、创新性和实践性。必须坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，全面贯彻习近平总书记关于金融工作的重要论述和重要指示精神，坚持目标导向、问题导向，深刻把握金融强国建设的主要特征、必由之路、重点任务和底蕴支撑。

(1) Six key core financial elements are the main characteristics of a financial strong country. A financial strong country should be based on a strong economic foundation, possessing world-leading economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national power. At the same time, it must possess a series of key core financial elements: a strong currency, a strong central bank, strong financial institutions, strong international financial centers, strong financial regulation, and a strong team of financial talents. Currently, China is already a major financial country; the volume of its banks, the scale of its stock and bond markets, and its foreign exchange reserves rank among the top in the world, but overall it is large but not strong. To achieve the transformation from large to strong finance, we need to make long-term and arduous efforts based on continuously promoting high-quality development and benchmarking against the construction goals of various key core financial elements.