About
CUFE Institute for
AI & Digital Finance
中央财经大学人工智能与数字财经研究中心
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Institution
The CUFE Institute for AI & Digital Finance (CUFE AI²F) is based at CUFE’s National Academy of Finance and Economic Strategy and was renamed from the Digital Finance Research Center. Its work has developed at the intersection of digital finance, sustainability and intelligent technologies. Research projects, professional tools and public exchange are its three principal forms of work.
- Affiliation
- National Academy of Finance and Economic Strategy, CUFE
- Research positioning
- AI-enabled digital finance research at the frontier of finance theory and public governance.
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Research trajectory
Sustainable digital finance enters public discussion
CUFE convened academic, regulatory and industry participants to discuss green finance, digital technology and consumer behaviour.
From research to policy practice and international exchange
The Center contributed to research for Hainan’s financial development plan and to a carbon-neutrality programme of the UNIDO Green Industry Platform.
National Social Science Fund support for digital currency and green consumption
A project on the mechanisms linking digital currency and green consumption received National Social Science Fund support under project 22BJL024.
Build a research-to-tool cooperation path
The Center built a clearer collaboration mechanism across research design, methodology standardization, and reusable scenario implementation for digital finance and AI topics.
Specialist knowledge enters agent systems
Longma Shujuan and the Longma ESG knowledge base brought specialist material on data assets, carbon finance, ESG and financial risk into updateable retrieval systems, alongside a specialist agent education platform enabling finance and management students without programming backgrounds to tune agents and build knowledge bases.
Research outcomes gain national certification and competition validation
The team’s industry platform received National High-Tech Enterprise certification, its specialist agent platform completed generative-algorithm registration, and the team placed runner-up in an iFLYTEK AI developer competition’s financial risk-control track — milestones marking the transfer of academic research into verifiable, sustainably operated technical capability.
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Global connections
Globalization is embedded in the Institute’s research workflow. The team studies how AI adoption, capital governance, data rules and compliance regimes differ across markets, and translates findings into practical guidance for industrial firms.
Recent work with the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) has supported data sections of the Tech for Trees report.
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Industry & globalization
AI²F transforms research outputs into reusable capability chains for advanced manufacturing, shipping and corporate globalization, using research methods, data and platforms to support a continuous path from problem definition to decision support. View capabilities and application scenarios