Pudong Releases Joint Initiative for Building a Financial IT Application Innovation Ecosystem, Partnering with Over 30 Enterprises and More Than 20 Universities to Advance AI+Finance
At the 2026 AI+Financial Infrastructure Frontier Innovation Dialogue, Pudong took the lead in releasing a joint initiative letter for building a financial IT application innovation ecosystem. Jointly initiated by academia and industry, it proposes consolidating the technological foundation through industrial collaboration and building momentum for development through talent cultivation. Pudong's relevant industrial chain has joined forces with more than 30 IT application innovation enterprises, including Hygon Information, UnionTech Software, Inspur Information, Phytium, Kylin Software, and Kunpeng, to achieve full-chain adaptation from chips and operating systems to servers and basic software, and has carried out industry-university-research cooperation with more than 20 universities, including Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The event was co-hosted by the Secretariat of the Lujiazui Financial Salon and Zhizhou Technology.
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The reporter learned at the 2026 AI+ Financial Infrastructure Frontier Innovation Dialogue that at present, artificial intelligence large models and intelligent computing power are reshaping the development logic of financial infrastructure, and financial institutions are accelerating toward data intelligence, computing power collaboration, and real-time decision-making, urgently needing to build a secure and controllable foundation for financial IT innovation. To further promote the development of "AI+Finance," Pudong took the lead in releasing the Financial IT Innovation Ecosystem Co-construction Initiative. Academia and industry jointly launched the initiative, clarifying that they will consolidate the technology foundation through industrial collaboration, accumulate development momentum through talent cultivation, and work together to build an open and win-win financial IT innovation industry ecosystem. The dialogue event was co-hosted by the Secretariat of the Lujiazui Financial Salon and Zhiyu Technology, focusing on the development trends, technological innovation, and business practices of financial infrastructure in the AI era, gathering representatives from financial institutions and technology enterprises to jointly explore the implementation paths for AI empowering financial infrastructure construction. The reporter learned that at present, the relevant industrial chain in Pudong has joined forces with more than 30 representative enterprises in the IT innovation field, including Hygon Information, UnionTech Software, Inspur Information, Phytium, Kylin Software, and Kunpeng, achieving full-chain adaptation from chips and operating systems to servers and basic software; at the same time, it has carried out industry-university-research cooperation with more than 20 universities, including Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, continuously cultivating interdisciplinary professionals oriented toward fintech and time-series computing.