View of Lujiazui in Shanghai. (Photo: CFP)

The two-day Lujiazui Forum 2021 kicked off on Thursday with the theme "China's financial reform and opening-up amid great changes of the world."

The forum features seven plenary sessions which focus on issues such as leveraging the financial market to achieve carbon peaking and neutrality, economic cooperation in response to the global pandemic, China's registration-based IPO system reform, and the digital transformation of the economy and financial sector.

The forum was created as a high-level global platform in 2008 to foster international financial cooperation and further China's financial reform and market opening.