"十五五"时期，上海国际金融中心建设重在提高竞争力和国际化水平，并稳步扩大金融高水平对外开 放。根据《上海市国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划纲要》（下称"上海'十五五'规划纲要"），上 海在临港新片区和东方枢纽国际商务合作区探索打造离岸金融（经济）功能区。 "离岸金融"并非一个新概念，但在上海"十五五"开局之年，它或许被赋予了重要的国家战略意义。"离 岸金融（经济）功能区的建设是上海踢好国际金融中心'临门一脚'的重要突破口。"中国首席经济学家 论坛理事长、广开首席产研院院长连平在接受《国际金融报》记者专访时表示。 从试点到体系 离岸金融这盘关乎上海未来金融高水平对外开放的重要棋局，究竟应如何落子？其核心载体FT账户 （自由贸易账户），又将迎来怎样的功能升级？在全球离岸金融市场深刻变革的今天，上海又将如何抓 住历史性机遇，推动人民币国际化进程加速？连平在专访中给出了独到见解。 "临门一脚" 上海的离岸金融之路，经历了一场漫长的探索，与中国金融市场的开放同频。在连平看来，理解上海当 下的选择，必须深刻了解离岸金融的过往历史。 "上海在离岸金融领域的探索并非简单的业务补充，而是一场意义深远的国家战略实践。"连平告 ...

Core Viewpoint - The 2025 Green Finance Ecological Conference in Chongqing highlighted the city's strategic position as a "best testing ground" for green finance, leveraging its ecological significance and industrial transformation needs to promote ecological protection and industrial transition [3][12]. Group 1: Green Finance Strategies - The strategy of "疏堵结合，精准赋能" (combining restriction and precision empowerment) was proposed to address the high proportion of heavy industry in Chongqing, focusing on limiting investments in high-pollution and high-energy consumption projects while providing comprehensive support for transitioning enterprises [3][14]. - The introduction of products like the CGT-ESG bond portfolio aims to guide funds towards low-carbon and environmentally friendly sectors, facilitating the green transformation of industrial enterprises [3][14]. Group 2: Biodiversity Finance - Biodiversity finance is identified as a frontier area, emphasizing the importance of quantifying ecological value and designing financial products that attract social capital, transforming biodiversity protection from a purely philanthropic effort into a source of stable returns [4][15]. - The goal is to create "green assets" that generate cash flow and returns, thereby encouraging broader market participation in biodiversity protection [4][15]. Group 3: Collaborative Development - China Galaxy Securities plans to focus on three strategic areas to support Chongqing's development model of "capital, ecology, and industry": enhancing full-chain services, leveraging technology for precision service, and promoting regional collaboration for carbon reduction and ecological protection [5][13]. - The integration of industrial transformation and biodiversity protection is seen as a way to achieve synergistic effects, with innovative financial tools like "green transition bonds" and "ecological credit loans" being explored to support this dual empowerment [8][16].