又一场专业国家级会议落地成都，级别高、规模大、会期长，主题锁定金融。而一场国际性盛会，是一座城市在专业领域“江湖地位”的最好说明。

3月26日-31日，全球瞩目成都。

世界历史最久、规模最大区域性政府间开发金融机构——泛美开发银行（Inter-American Development Bank， 以下简称“泛美行”），2019年泛美行年会首次落地中国，坐标锁定成都。

From March 26 to 31, Chengdu will attract worldwide attentions.

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the time-honored and largest regional intergovernmental development financial institution. The annual meeting of Inter-American Development Bank will first land in Chengdu, China.

“泛美行”是什么？

What is IDB?

全球的朋友在成都讨论些什么？

What does these foreign friends focus on in Chengdu?

首次落地中国，为什么选择成都？

Why Chengdu?

小编带你秒懂。

Now let’s have a look.

A Brief History of IDB

Full name: Inter-American Development Bank

Include: Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Investment Company and Multilateral Investment Fund

Headquarter: Based in Washington, USA

Status: The world's oldest and largest regional intergovernmental development financial institution

Influence: Latin America and even the whole world

Time of establishment: 1959. This year marks the 60th anniversary of IDB and the 10th anniversary of China's entry into IDB.

Member States: 48, 28 in Latin America and 20 in other regions, including the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan and other major economies in the world.

China is the 48th member of IDB and the 3rd member from East Asia after Japan and South Korea.

What is the annual meeting of IDB?

IDB Council holds its annual meeting, which is hosted by each member in turn.

Finance ministers or central bank governors of its member countries will attend the meeting.

The meeting will center on the economic and financial situation in Latin American and the world, development strategy and IDB's business strategy.

Why Chengdu?

IDB favored Chengdu's software and hardware strength and scored the highest points after paying site investigations to several candidate cities in China.

1Chengdu is accelerating the construction of a national central city that fully embodies the new development concept, leading and driving the efficient development of the western urban agglomeration.

2 Chengdu is accelerating the construction of the western financial center by continuously strengthening the five core functions and speeding up the formation of a new financial industry ecosystem. Here, the economic level of financial service entity is significantly improved. Chengdu will continue to deepen financial reforms and increase its international influence as the western financial center.

3 With the aiming of becoming a world-famed cultural city, Chengdu is now developing into a world famous cultural city, a famous tourist city, a famous sporting city, an international food city, a city of music city, and a city of exhibitions. It develops Tianfu culture on the basis of inherits Bashu culture.

4 Chengdu is now integrating into the overall plan of opening up the country. On the one hand, it becomes a strategic frontier in China's Western Campaign in order to stand out as an international hub city. On the other hand, it expands in four directions to seek comprehensive opening-up and embrace the global development with its wider ambition. 

How will the IDB Annual Meeting be held in 2019?

IDB Annual Meeting first arrives in Chengdu on March 26-31, 2019, which is sponsored by the People's Bank of China and Inter-American Development Bank, hosted by Sichuan Provincial People's Government and Chengdu Municipal People's Government.

Major Activities "1 + 4"

“1”：Annual Meeting of IDB

“4”：Mayor’s Forum, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and SME Development Forum, Business Forum, High-level Seminar on Green Finance

Total number of participants: more than 6500 people.

What is the significance to Chengdu?

1 It releases positive signals to further promote economic, trade, investment and financial cooperation between China and Latin America in the near future.

2 It is conducive to the docking of “The Belt and Road” initiative with the development strategies of Latin American countries in order to promote Sino-Latin American economic, trade, investment and financial cooperation to a new level.

3 It is conducive to displaying the 40-year achievements made in Sichuan since the implementation of reform and opening up strategy and promoting the construction of economic corridors and the western financial center.

4  It is conducive to strengthening multilateral economic and trade exchanges and making Sichuan an economic highland.

编辑：张静雯