The First China Insurance History and Culture Research Exchange Conference was Successfully Held

On August 28, 2022, the School of Insurance of UIBE successfully held the first China Insurance History and Culture Research Exchange Conference in Beijing. More than 30 experts and scholars from the insurance industry, academia, media, and publishing fields gathered together for enthusiastic exchanges and sharing.

Professor Xie Yuantao, Vice President of Insurance College (in charge of administrative work), delivered a speech on behalf of the sponsor. He stated that this meeting aims to deeply implement the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches on historical research and cultural inheritance, promote talent development in the field of Chinese insurance history and culture, and promote research on global and Chinese insurance history.At the same time, he pointed out that the study of insurance history and culture is seriously lagging behind, and the main keynote of insurance culture needs to strengthen the study and summary of insurance industry development history law.

In this meeting, experts such as Zhang Guofang, Gao Xing, Zhang Qingmin, Fan Juanjuan, and Zhao Dawei reviewed and summarized the research and publication of Chinese insurance history and culture since the reform and opening up, and elaborated on the contemporary value of insurance history and culture research. Experts such as Zhou Daoxu, Shi Xiaoshan, Lou Lin, Cao Zhihong, Maxwell Ibanda, and others introduced the history of insurance in major countries around the world and the thriving development of China since its accession to the WTO.

Ma Yihong, who graduated from China Academy of Drama and is now serving as an employee of Dayong insurance broker Co., Ltd., specially sang a segment of Peking Opera Ode to Pear Blossom in order to pay tribute to the inheritance of insurance culture. Fan Chengjian, the director of the documentary Insurance of Great Powers, said after listening to the experts' sharing that insurance culture is the underlying logic of the development of the insurance industry, and China's insurance culture must be spread in Esperanto.

Mr. Zhang Guofang, an off campus tutor of the Insurance Institute, donated books to the Insurance Institute

This meeting was chaired by Professor Zeng Lixin and received strong support from Qingkong Zijing Education Co., Ltd. and China (Beijing) Sunshine Insurance Museum. (Written by Liu Zijia and Cui Zihang)