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HQF Warming-Up丨Facilitating Cross-Border Trade's Resilience Release date： 2025-11-02 Source：China International Import Expo Bureau
The "Facilitating Cross-Border Trade's Resilience through Maritime Trade Finance" parallel session of the 8th Hongqiao International Economic Forum (HQF) will be held on the afternoon of November 6 in 4.2 Hall of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). This parallel session will convene global expertise to discuss how shipping, trade and finance unlock new drivers for cross-border trade.
Against the backdrop of profound adjustments in the global economic and trade landscape, cross-border financial service, the glue holding world commerce together, faces unprecedented transformation and opportunities. Within this context, maritime trade finance angle is crucial because most of commodities moved by sea. The real question is: how do financial instruments make this flow smarter? New technologies such as blockchain, Al and digital economy applications are not merely optimizing but fundamentally restructuring maritime trade finance. The three technologies mentioned each play distinct but interconnected roles. Blockchain's trust layer enables e-BoLs, while Al optimizes decisions around digital warehouse receipts. The digital economy provides the transactional framework tying them together. Furthermore, there is a pivotal shift: maritime trade finance is evolving from a transactional tool into the central nervous system of reconfiguring global supply chain, with regional pacts like RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) and hubs like Shanghai International Shipping Center acting as accelerants. The fusion of maritime trade finance with reorganized supply chains, turbocharged by RCEP and Shanghai's ecosystem, creates a self-reinforcing loop: finance enables agility; agility attracts trade; trade generates datas; datas de-risk finance.
The parallel session is hosted by Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and organized by Bank of Communications. Leaders from government, business, academia and other sectors will focus on critical trends in the shipping and trade ecosystem, engaging in in-depth dialogues on topics such as evolving global trade patterns, innovative financial solutions, and the impact of technology. Through the exchange of diverse perspectives, the forum aims to generate actionable insights for building a more efficient,secure and sustainable shipping,trade and financial services system.
Confirmed Guests Include:
•Algernon YAU, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, HKSAR Government
•LI Wei, Executive Vice President of China COSCO SHIPPING Corporation Limited
•Thomas J. Sargent, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics in 2011
•Nishikawa Shingo, Executive Director and President of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (China) Co., Ltd.
•LYU Feng, Vice President of Shanghai Data Group Co., Ltd.
•LIU Xun, Vice President of Shanghai Commodity Warehouse Receipt Registration Co., Ltd.
•Sarah CHEN, Asia Financial Controller of Suzano
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