On August 26, the "Steady Progress with Sound Construction • Financial Escort" Financial Service Conference for Foreign‑funded and Foreign‑trade Enterprises of Qingdao Pilot Free Trade Zone was successfully convened, attracting representatives from more than 50 foreign‑funded and foreign‑trade enterprises.

Aligned with the work arrangements for stabilizing foreign investment and foreign trade, this event targets key corporate pain points including cross‑border settlement, exchange rate risk hedging and credit‑insurance‑backed financing. It builds a precise government‑bank‑enterprise docking platform to support the sound development of foreign‑funded and foreign‑trade enterprises via high‑quality financial services.

In recent years, driven by financial empowerment, Qingdao Pilot Free Trade Zone has furthered reforms for cross‑border trade facilitation, strengthened full‑chain service guarantees for foreign‑trade enterprises, and helped enterprises improve quality and efficiency amid international competition. Going forward, the Zone will keep optimizing the regular government‑bank‑enterprise docking mechanism, explore more pioneering cross‑border financial pilot programs, remove barriers for policy implementation at "the last mile", and boost the city’s high‑level opening‑up to new heights.