In the golden autumn of September, the refreshing fragrance of osmanthus filled the air. In late September 2025, under the guidance of the Guangxi Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the second “Focus on the Five Key Themes — Investor Education Empowering a Financially Strong China” Series of Events and Financial Education Publicity Week was held in Nanning, Guangxi. The event was co-hosted by the Guangxi Securities, Futures & Fund Industry Association, the Guangxi Listed Companies Association, Cailian Press, and financial institutions including GF Fund.The event consisted of five themed activities — Party-building learning, industry culture exchange, visits to listed companies, campus outreach, and investor education marketplace — generating remarkable outcomes and receiving strong recognition and positive feedback from investors.
Upholding Party-building Leadership and Strengthening the Foundation of Industry Culture
Party-building serves as a fundamental safeguard for the public fund industry to remain true to its financial mission and to support the real economy. In recent years, industry institutions, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, have transformed the Party’s political and organizational strengths into development strengths. Systematic practices have been established across areas including theoretical capacity building, integration of Party-building with business operations, work style enhancement, and compliance and risk management, thereby reinforcing a solid foundation for the high-quality development of China’s capital markets.
To further strengthen Party-building leadership and carry forward the red revolutionary heritage, the first session of the Guangxi event series arranged financial professionals to visit the “Red Memory” immersive exhibition hall at the Guangxi New Media Center for a Party-building learning program. In the “Red Memory” themed exhibition area, participants revisited the struggles and sacrifices of revolutionary martyrs and reflected on their unwavering ideals and convictions. In the immersive Party class area powered by holographic projection technology, the historical scene of the founding of the CPC Wuzhou Branch was vividly recreated, enhancing the sense of engagement in the learning experience. Professor Chen Rujun, specially appointed by the Publicity and Education Group of the CPC Nanning Municipal Committee, delivered an on-site lecture focusing on the essence of financial services, the history of red finance in Guangxi, and the theme of “learning from history to guide practice”. He emphasized that learning from the legacy of red finance requires drawing lessons from history, strengthening belief, and translating conviction into concrete action. Participants expressed that the learning experience reinforced their original mission and professional commitment, and that they will continue to draw wisdom from history, integrate the spirit of perseverance into their work, and contribute to the cause of the Party and the people.
Party-building provides strategic guidance and core values for the development of the industry, while industry culture serves as a critical vehicle for translating Party-building initiatives into tangible and effective practices. To further consolidate the achievements of industry culture development within the region, the event series included a roundtable session focused on cultural development across financial institutions. Mr. Yin Gang, Party Committee Member and Deputy Director of the Guangxi CSRC Bureau, attended the session and delivered a speech, joined by the Head of the Institutional Supervision Division of the Guangxi CSRC Bureau.
During the exchange session, participating institutions noted that industry culture development has been systematically incorporated into their corporate strategies, promoting deep integration of Party-building with business operations and corporate culture, and forming distinctive implementation pathways. At present, financial practitioners are demonstrating stronger compliance awareness, a greater sense of cultural identity, and higher levels of client satisfaction, while institutions are experiencing continued growth in brand reputation and social influence. However, challenges remain, including insufficient penetration of industry culture initiatives, inadequate long-term mechanisms, and limited integration of financial technology with cultural development. Representatives suggested that future efforts should focus on strengthening the alignment between Party-building and cultural development, improving performance evaluation mechanisms, leveraging technology to innovate cultural dissemination and assessment approaches, enhancing investor education through differentiated educational offerings, and fostering a healthy industry ecosystem to elevate professional service capabilities and industry reputation.
In his concluding remarks, Deputy Director Yin Gang outlined four major directions for future advancement: first, upholding Party-building leadership to ensure that the industry stays on the right development path and continues to fulfill the mission of serving the nation and the people through finance; second, strengthening compliance and risk management, safeguarding integrity, and fostering the concept that “compliance creates value”; third, maintaining a people-centered financial approach by enhancing investor education and services to effectively protect investors’ rights and interests; and fourth, focusing on high-quality development, serving national strategies, opposing low-quality internal competition, and improving professional service capabilities.
Visiting Listed Companies Exploring New Quality Productive Forces 
In alignment with the momentum of “new quality productive forces,” GF Fund launched the “Discovering the Power of Innovation in Investment” series in 2024, enabling investors to visit listed companies and gain first-hand insights into their operations. The program aims to help participants identify the intrinsic value of high-quality enterprises, experience the dynamism of China’s high-quality economic development, and strengthen confidence in value investment and long-term investment. 
As the only coastal and border region in the central and western part of China, Guangxi serves as a strategic gateway for China’s cooperation with ASEAN countries. In recent years, Guangxi has accelerated industrial transformation and upgrading, with rapid growth in high-tech manufacturing and services. Emerging sectors such as new energy vehicles, green energy, and the digital economy have expanded rapidly, innovation capabilities continue to strengthen, and the region’s development characteristics have become increasingly distinctive.
To further promote the high-quality development of the capital market and enhance investor awareness and confidence in Guangxi-based listed companies, the program organized more than 40 investors to visit Runjian Co., a digital intelligent operations (AIOps) service provider headquartered in Nanning, to explore practical examples of new quality productive forces in the region.
In the company’s Artificial Intelligence Exhibition Hall, investors learned—through sections such as the corporate development timeline, patent wall, and interactive product demonstrations—about Runjian’s transformation from a telecommunications services provider into an AI computing service provider, as well as its current three-pronged business layout of “intelligent operations + industry-specific models + computing power services.”
During the discussion session, Luo Jiantao, Board Secretary of Runjian, and Wang Peijia, Securities Affairs Representative, introduced the company’s development and engaged in in-depth exchanges on topics of investor interest, including computing power leasing, the development of the Wuxiang Cloud Valley Intelligent Computing Center, investment in technology R&D, and market expansion strategies. Investors responded enthusiastically and raised a number of questions, to which senior management provided open and transparent answers, further strengthening investor understanding of the company’s value and confidence in the industry outlook.
This listed-company field visit provided a direct communication platform for investors and listed companies, facilitating deep interaction among financial institutions, investors, and corporate management. The event played a positive role in helping investors develop a rational, value-oriented, and long-term investment philosophy.
Implementing the “Financial Education Publicity Week” Initiative Expanding the Reach of Investor Education
To enhance financial literacy among the general public, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers and investors, and implement the “Financial Education Publicity Week” initiative, the Guangxi session further expanded the reach of investor education through visits to universities and the hosting of themed education marketplaces. These efforts aimed to improve financial literacy for all and foster a healthy financial ecosystem.
Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, located in Nanning, is a specialized institution dedicated to training high-caliber finance professionals. As part of the event series, the program entered the university’s student activity center and delivered thematic sessions titled “The First Lesson of Clean Finance: Integrity, Risk, and Your Future” and “Fraud Schemes in Finance: How University Students Can Stay Protected.” The lectures emphasized integrity as the bottom line for the healthy development of the financial industry and provided detailed explanations of common risks such as online fraud and illegal campus loans, along with practical prevention strategies.
Students participated enthusiastically and noted that the lectures strengthened their awareness of clean and ethical finance as well as fraud prevention, enhanced their understanding of financial risks and professional responsibilities, and helped lay a solid compliance foundation for their future careers in the financial industry.
The investor education marketplace held at the NGS Nanning Plaza also attracted strong public attention, drawing many passersby and investors to stop, observe, and learn. GF Fund set up an investor education booth and distributed educational materials on financial knowledge and fraud prevention, along with the brand mascot FAFA’s “Chinese Financial Culture”–themed collectible beans. Through entertaining and engaging interactions, the event promoted basic capital market knowledge and anti-fraud awareness, highlighted the characteristics of Chinese financial culture, encouraged investors to fully recognize investment risks, and fostered rational and informed investment behavior.