On October 20th, the opening ceremony of the First Digital Finance Specialty Class of the School of Finance was successfully held in Ningyi Hongdao Study. Han Xu, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Academy, Fan Xiaoyun, Executive Deputy Dean, Ji Fang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Dean, Liu Lanbiao, Deputy Dean and Instructor of the Digital Finance Specialty Class, Liu Wei, Deputy Dean, teachers ofat the Institute of Digital Finance and all freshmen of the Digital Finance Specialty Class attended the opening ceremony, which was presided over by Liu Wei.

Fan Xiaoyun pointed out that President Xi Jinping emphasized in the 34th collective study of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee of China,  stressed the importance of “graspingGrasp the development trends and laws of the digital economy, and promotinge the strong and healthy development of China’s digital economy”, and  the establishment of digital finance class is a new exploration of the college to implement the requirements of “educating the people for the Party and the country”. a special class of digital finance is the college’s implementation the requirements "education for the party and talent for the country". Fan Xiaoyun taught freshmen that the world today is facing unprecedented tremendous changes in the century. The students will be participants and new forces in the reconstruction of the world structure in the post-epidemic era. They should cultivate patriotic character, shoulder the responsibility of the times, and seize the strategic opportunities of technological and industrial innovation, maintain an open learning mind and a proactive learning attitude, practice boldly, and live up to fulfill the mission.

Han Xu summarized the characteristics of the first special class of digital finance as the "three news", namely the new digital finance students through a second selection, the newly established Institute of Digital Finance, and the new areas of digital finance that need urgent exploration. The establishment of the special digital finance class has condensed the efforts of many leaders and experts. Students must correctly understand the relationship between learning and growth, learn new knowledge and new theories assiduously, and at the same time broaden their horizons instead of valuing solely on the grade. Relying on the university as a fertile platform for diverse development, students should realize all-round development through continuous practice and exploration.

Liu Lanbiao described the background and original intention of the establishment of the special class of digital finance, andfinance and emphasized that "digitalization" and "green finance" are important trends in future financial development, so we must make full preparations for future financial reforms. Liu sent a message to the freshmen, hoping that the students would strive to become extraordinary youth with solid theoretical foundation, good grasp of policies and excellent professional skills in the new era, and would contribute to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and exert great rejuvenation for the realization of the Chinese dream.

Wang Bo, the director of the Digital Finance Institute and the project leader of the special class of digital finance, elaborated on relevant research in the domestic and nationally field of digital finance, and looked forward to the construction and development of the special class. Wang Bo hoped that in the future practice and exploration, the class with digital finance characteristics wouldwill be built into a professional team of exploration, research and learning, withand teachers and students that would will learn from each other and make progress together.

Ge Shuyi, a teacher at the Institute of Digital Finance, suggested that freshmen should focus on improving their data analysis ability, language ability and programming ability, while keeping a good schedule in daily life, keeping fitphysical exercise and cultivating interests. Teachers from the Institute of Digital Finance Li Xiao, Duan Yuejiao, and postdoctoral fellow Zhang Zuochao also congratulated the students for joining the special class, andclass and sent their best wishes and deep expectations.

The Students representative, Guo Zeyu, expressed her expectation and joy towards the future and digital financial characteristic class, shared her serendipity with Nankai and the students here. She hoped she could contribute to China’s financial industry and become talent of Nankai and the financial world.

At the end of the ceremony, Liu Wei made a concluding summary speech. She hoped that students would have a deep understanding of the professional connotation of digital finance, broaden their horizons, have the courage to innovate and create, make full use of various high-quality resources provided by the school, lay a solid professional foundation and improve their comprehensive quality. She compared the digital Finance class to a ship sailing in the new economic era. She wished all the students to brave the wind and sail under the guidance of the college and teachers.

In order to meet the demand for high-quality talents with the rapid development of digital economy and fintech, the School of Finance will launch a talent training program with "digital finance" characteristics in 2021. The project aims to develop elite talent with systematic knowledge of economics and finance and modern information technology theory, who’s familiar with financial practice, financial science and technology, data science, algorithm and intelligent technology, withpossesses strong practical ability and innovation spirit, and can adapts to the bank of science and technology, intelligent interest and programmed trading, insurance technology that is required in areas such as digital finance.ia.