China Industrial and Commercial Bank President Liu Jun: It is more important to focus on whether talent possesses industry knowledge, technical expertise, and technology mastery.

On June 18, at the 2026 Lujiazui Forum "General Assembly Five: Building a sound technology finance full life cycle service system to serve the high-quality development of the real economy," Liu Jun, the President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, mentioned talent supply and stated that large financial institutions do not particularly value whether talents are graduates of finance and economics majors, but rather value their industry knowledge, technical expertise, and mastery in technology. "Now we require our talent teams to have a '-shaped' combination, or to have a full understanding of financial knowledge, market knowledge, and also to have as many '' drawn horizontally as possible, indicating a deep understanding of different industries." Liu Jun stated that this human resources structure system meets the development needs of modern financial institutions, allowing financial institutions to form a financial intelligence balance sheet in finance, asset-liability structure, and data asset-liability structure.