Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer leads delegation to China, seeking concrete cooperation with key financial players

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Visits to Chinese ministries and authorities, state institutions and financial centre players are envisaged. The talks will focus on bilateral and multilateral issues, and concrete cooperation at the state and private-sector levels. In particular, the optimum framework conditions for supporting innovation in the financial sector, for investments and financial services will be broached, as will the role and opportunities for Swiss financial institutions locally and those of the countries concerned in Switzerland. Besides, the talks will also give special attention to the interest in implementing and drawing up global standards concerning financial matters.

Switzerland has one of the best, most secure and most competitive financial centres in the world thanks to its excellent framework conditions. This exchange with state and private-sector players from the most important financial centres in the Asian region will take place in the context of Switzerland's financial market policy for a competitive Swiss financial centre. This underlines the strengths of the Swiss financial centre，as well as opening doors for the sector overseas.