The 2025 Qingdao Venture Capital Conference will be held on Sept 26, themed "Tech Empowerment, Open Integration: New Models and Trends in Finance".

This year's event evolves from a venture capital-focused gathering into a broader financial industry summit, expanding its scope to include the entire finance sector while emphasizing financial openness and technology-driven innovation. It aims to provide trend insights and a communication platform, serving as a window and bellwether for financial institutions, private equity and venture capital firms, fintech companies, and the public to grasp economic trends and understand the transformation of financial services.

The conference will feature opening remarks, key project unveilings and signings, keynote speeches, roundtable discussions, thematic forums, as well as capital promotion and tech project roadshows. It will gather over a hundred leading experts, scholars, entrepreneurs, and investors from well-known domestic and international financial institutions, top private equity and venture capital firms, and major insurance capital representatives.

As a significant platform for developing Qingdao into a venture capital hub, the conference has been held successfully six times since 2019. Over the years, it has continuously innovated in format and content, gaining growing influence and strong support from national ministries, including the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

By facilitating continuous dialogue between capital and innovation, the conference has broadened financing channels for enterprise — especially tech startups — accelerated the clustering of venture capital resources, and provided strong support for Qingdao's high-quality economic development.

As of the end of July this year, the number of private fund managers, funds under management, and total assets under management in Qingdao have increased by 1.5 times, 5.7 times, and 3.3 times, respectively compared with the end of 2018, with national rankings rising by three, 10, and eight places. To date, national private funds have invested in 1,351 Qingdao projects, with capital under management reaching 92.2 billion yuan ($12.94 billion).