The Group's key partner - the International Finance Forum (IFF) held its 12th Annual Global Conference in Beijing, from 6 to 8 November, 2015. The conference theme was “New power of global growth”. With constant impacts and challenges from the international politics, global economy and innovated technology, how to choose the route to reform, to promote multilateral cooperation, to innovate financial services, and to develop the real economy have become the central issues of the global financial reform and development. The 12th International Finance Forum (IFF) Annual Conference focused on the topics of the roles of the multilateral financial organization on facilitating infrastructure construction and economic growth, exploring new financing methods and investment model, as well as seeking for new drivers for global economic growth. Another hot topic was to focus on the development of the China economy, which included the present status and the future growth trends of China economy. 

Kevin Michael Rudd, the Former Australian Prime Minister and co-chairman of the IFF; Han Seung-soo, IFF Co-Chairman and the President of the 56th Session of the UN General Assembly; Yukio Hatoyama, former prime minister of Japan and Chairman of IFF Advisory Committee; Jenny Shipley, President of the Sustainable Development Council of IFF and former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Prince Turki, the Co-Chairman of IFF Fund Council and the chairman of King Abdullah foundation Saudi Arabia; Zhu Guangyao, China's vice minister of finance; Jiang Jianqing, President of IFF and the chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank; and other over 100 financial leaders made a speech at the Annual Conference. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General; Jean-Claude Trichet, the IFF Co-Chair, former president of the European Central Bank and Jin liqun, the President-Elect of Asian infrastructure investment Bank (AIIB), specifically had a video speech for this Annual Conference.

As an important partner of BH Group, the International Finance Forum (IFF) is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental international organization and a regular platform for global high-level dialogue and academic research in the financial field. It was founded in Beijing in October 2003 under the initiation of over 20 countries and regions such as China, U.S. and E.U., important international organizations such as the U.N., and a large number of financial institutions and financial leaders. It is also an international financial diplomacy and the strategic think tank platform between China and the new emerging economies. It has been supported by more than 200 global financial leaders and IFF still work closely as a partnership with more than 50 international and regional organizations.