PANews reported on March 17 that the People's Bank of China held a 2025 Science and Technology Work Conference from March 13 to 14. The conference emphasized the need to deepen comprehensive and strict party governance, strengthen the construction of the science and technology team, and promote high-quality development of science and technology work. The focus includes deepening data governance, promoting the application of new technologies, strengthening information technology support, promoting the construction of independent and controllable financial infrastructure, and maintaining network and data security.

The meeting also proposed to accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of finance and steadily promote the application of large artificial intelligence models in the financial field. At the same time, we will solidly complete the final work of the "14th Five-Year Plan", start the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan", increase the supply of standards around key directions in the financial field, and promote the further improvement of the internationalization of financial standards.