On June 26th, 2015, Guangdong Radio and TV University(RTVU) and Guangdong Provincial Financial Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Association(FCRIPA) signed a“Cooperative Agreement about Financial Education for Communities to Help with Entrepreneurial Innovation for Youth”.

The signing ceremony was held at the Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China, and the special education network of “Internet +”entrepreneurial and innovative knowledge and skills, a  subsidiary of Guangdong Lifelong Learning Network, went online on the same day. 

According to the agreement, Guangdong RTVU and the FCRIPA of Guangdong Province will jointly carry out the work of financial education for communities. Both parties will hold series of lectures on financial knowledge through Community Colleges (Schools) of the Guangdong RTVU system, and join together to build a special network of “Financial Education for Communities under the Guangdong Lifelong Learning Network”for community education, produce other teaching resources and push ahead other work to take financial education into communities. 

The two parties will also jointly carry out cooperation in the “Internet +” innovative and entrepreneurial community education and the project of support for inclusive financial entrepreneurship, and provide basic “Internet +” innovative and entrepreneurial courses for the public through the Guangdong Lifelong Learning Network (www.gdlll.cn). In addition, TV universities (community universities and community colleges) from all over the province will plan to organize community residents, RTVU students and alumni, as well as students from other colleges and members of society to participate in online study and face-to-face study, and guide learners to put forward entrepreneurial programmes, projects and plans. The two parties will then organize all kinds of financial service institutions to evaluate and select the entrepreneurial programmes and assist project leaders to win support from various preferential financial and other support policies.

Mr. Liu Wenqing, President of Guangdong RTVU and Mr. Yang Feng, Chairman of the FCRIPA of Guangdong signed the“Cooperation Agreement about Financial Education for Communities to Help with Entrepreneurial Innovation for Youth”. Leaders from Guangdong Higher People’s Court, the Financial Work Office of Guangdong Provincial Government and the Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Nearly one hundred representatives from all financial institutions in Guangdong province took part in the meeting. Other working documents and agreements were also presented at the signing ceremony. 

Mr. Liu Wenqing expressed the view that the cooperation was not only a useful exploration for the university to unite with strength of industry to jointly carry out community education, but also an important practice for improving local people’s financial know-how, which had a positive significance for carrying out community education work deeply, systematically and sustainably, and playing a positive role in pushing forward “Internet+” entrepreneurial and innovative work. 

It is understood that the FCRIPA of Guangdong province, established in December 2014, was the first provincial public welfare social group dedicated to protecting financial consumer rights in the country. The first president was Mr. Yang Feng, President of the Guangdong Branch of the Bank of Communications and its members came mainly from such financial service institutions as banks, security companies, insurance companies, small financial institutions, third-party payment companies and internet financial companies. Scholars and specialists in the financial and legal industries, consumers’ representatives and representatives from Guangdong RTVU were the executive members of the Association. 

                                   

                                                                                                          By Guangdong RTVU