On June 18th, at the July 1st Commendation Conference of Lujiazui Financial City celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the results of the 2021 "Top Ten Outstanding Youths of Lujiazui Financial City" were announced. Lin Qiang, director of Hehe Futures Co., Ltd. and chairman and CEO of Shanghai Hehe Capital Investment Management Co., Ltd., was elected as the "Top Ten Outstanding Youths" of this year for his outstanding industry contributions and social welfare actions.
"Top Ten Outstanding Youth of Lujiazui Financial City" is an annual event sponsored by the Organization Department of the Pudong New Area District Committee, the Propaganda Department of the District Committee, the United Front Work Department of the District Committee, the Pudong New Area Federation of Trade Unions, the Shanghai Pudong New Area Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Lujiazui Administration Bureau of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. These outstanding young people not only actively participate in the construction and development of Lujiazui Financial City, make outstanding achievements and important contributions in the industry, but also are enthusiastic about public welfare, willing to contribute, have outstanding achievements in serving the people and contributing to the society, and have a good social image.
The 2021 "Top Ten Outstanding Youths of Lujiazui Financial City" is an annual activity guided by the Party Group of the Lujiazui Administration Bureau of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and sponsored by the Comprehensive Party Committee of the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, the Federation of Trade Unions and the Youth League Working Committee of the Financial City, and the outstanding young people in Lujiazui Financial City are selected. These outstanding young people are based in Lujiazui Financial City, not only creating outstanding performance in the industry, but also making important contributions to the construction and development of Lujiazui Financial City.
Lujiazui Financial City is the first and only state-level development zone approved by the State Council after the development and opening up of Pudong in 1990 with the characteristics of "financial trade". In the past 30 years, from the farmland of Yanmo to the high-rise buildings, from the "mud crossing" to the CBD of the land, Lujiazui Financial City has refreshed the skyline again and again. The region has gathered 12 state-level factor markets and financial infrastructure, attracting more than 6,000 financial institutions of various types, 40% of the country's foreign-funded corporate banks, 23% of insurance asset management institutions, nearly one-third of the public fund management companies, and more than 90% of the country's foreign-funded asset management institutions. As the core bearing area of Shanghai International Financial Center, the added value of the financial industry in Lujiazui Financial City exceeds 300 billion yuan.
Based on Lujiazui Financial City, Hehe Capital, led by Lin Qiang, has continued to help industrial development through capital for many years. On March 11, 2021, Hehe Capital cooperated with Pudong Kechuang Group to inject funds into the Pudong New Area Intellectual Property Equity Investment Fund in the form of social capital, becoming the largest private LP of the Pudong New Area Intellectual Property Equity Investment Fund, focusing on intellectual property innovation in Pudong New Area and helping high-quality technology enterprises achieve sustainable development. As early as December 2020, Hehe Capital (Hong Kong) Investment Management Co., Ltd. has submitted a Type 1, Type 4 and Type 9 corporate licence application to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission), actively promoting the global business development strategy of "basing itself on the Yangtze River Delta, developing Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, embracing the Greater Bay Area, and facing internationalization", basing itself on Lujiazui Financial City, and striving to achieve international development.
The "Ten Outstanding Youth" selection activity closely follows the development of the times, advocates the concept of diligence, moral cultivation, discernment, steadfastness, patriotism, inspiration, truth-seeking, and practice, and through the selection of young elites in Lujiazui Financial City, it sets up a model for the society to build meritorious achievements and provides a model for the youth of the Financial City to cultivate themselves and morality. As an industry veteran who has been deeply involved in the financial field for more than ten years, Lin Qiang has firm confidence in the financial industry, faces difficulties, takes the initiative, and strives to forge ahead and grow together with Lujiazui. He was enthusiastic about social undertakings, supported the epidemic areas with practical actions, paid attention to the border troops, and helped rural education, becoming a typical youth in Lujiazui Financial City and a model for the vast number of young people with lofty aspirations.
Lin Qiang always adheres to the exploration and pursuit of the common values of customers, employees, enterprises and society, adheres to the same frequency of enterprise growth and social development, and the mutual benefits and social responsibilities of enterprises, and actively advocates the development concept of "growing together with social wealth and accompanying excellent customers". During the epidemic period, Lin Qiang donated a special fund for epidemic prevention and control to young medical workers in Shanghai for the first time, and donated more than 2.4 million disposable protective masks to regions and units across the country. Under the guidance of the national "rural revitalization" strategy, Lin Qiang has donated more than 20 Hehe Libraries to many places across the country for two consecutive years through "Hehe Public Welfare", actively promoting the revitalization of rural education with knowledge public welfare actions.
Based on the new starting point of the 30th anniversary of Pudong's development and opening up, Lujiazui Financial City shoulders the historical responsibility of deepening institutional innovation in the financial sector, promoting the opening up of the service industry, and driving the high-quality development of key industries. This process is inseparable from those young people with ideals and lofty aspirations. The award to outstanding young people will encourage more young people to base themselves in Lujiazui, deepen their own fields, and continuously strive to continuously improve the financial resource allocation and radiation ability of Lujiazui Financial City and consolidate its position in the global financial market. （CIS）