高盛总裁约翰·华尔顿呼吁中国放宽外汇规则，放松跨境数据限制，提高监管透明度，因为该国政策制定者正寻求加强上海作为国际金融中心的角色。
Goldman Sachs president John Waldron has called on China to loosen foreign exchange rules, ease cross-border data restrictions and improve regulatory transparency as the country’s policymakers seek to strengthen Shanghai’s role as an international financial centre.
华尔顿同时也是该投资银行的首席运营官，并被广泛视为接替现任首席执行官大卫所罗门的有力人选，他在上海政府国际商界领袖顾问委员会年度会议上对上海的潜力表达了信心。
Waldron, also the investment bank’s chief operating officer and widely seen as a front runner to succeed its current CEO David Solomon, expressed confidence in the city’s potential at an annual meeting of international business leaders advising the Shanghai government.
“上海有巨大的机遇成为领先的全球资本市场中心，”华尔顿在周日的第38届国际商界领袖顾问委员会会议上表示。
“Shanghai has an enormous opportunity to become a leading global capital market centre,” Waldron said at the 38th International Business Leaders’ Advisory Council meeting on Sunday.
“透明度、可预测性和一致性是增强全球投资者信心的三个最重要因素……使他们愿意将资本配置到这个市场，而非其他全球机遇。”针对上海市长朱忠明关于在推进国际金融中心建设过程中扩大跨境和离岸金融服务的关键瓶颈的提问，华尔顿指出了一系列监管措施。
“Transparency, predictability and consistency are the three most important things that generate confidence in global investors … to allocate capital to this marketplace versus other global opportunities.”Responding to Shanghai Mayor Zhu Zhongming’s question about the key bottlenecks to expanding cross-border and offshore financial services, amid the city’s international financial centre push, Waldron pointed to a set of regulatory steps.
“[这包括] 对海外融资结构的明确指引，加强对内外投资的保障[以及] 明确且具规定性地阐述这些保障措施是什么，”他说。
“[This includes] clear guidance on overseas financing structures, stronger safeguards on inward and outward investment [and] being very clear and prescriptive about what those safeguards are,” he said.
他还提到“重构外汇法规并简化资本账户开设”，并指出“中国市场的一个挑战在于资本账户以及资本的流入和流出。”监管机构还应改革股票市场所有权规则，其中一些规则，正如华尔顿所说，限制了市场融资能力，并应加快首次公开发行、二次股权交易及其他资本市场产品的审批，以使资本形成的速度更接近全球标准。
He also pointed to “restructuring foreign exchange regulations and simplifying capital account opening” and noted that “one of the challenges in the Chinese market is the capital account and the flow of capital into and out of the country.”Regulators should also reform stock market ownership rules, some of which Waldron said constrained the market’s capacity to raise capital, and expedite reviews of initial public offerings, secondary equity transactions and other capital market offerings to bring the pace of capital formation closer to global standards.
他还建议在监管和许可审查过程中，根据外国金融机构的全球资源而非仅其本地实体进行评估，这将使全球企业更有信心向该市分配资本。
He also suggested assessing foreign financial institutions based on their global resources, rather than just their local entities, during regulatory and licensing reviews, saying this would give global firms greater confidence to allocate capital to the city.
周五，华尔顿在北京会见了中国财政部副部长廖敏。财政部表示，双方“就中美经济贸易关系及两国宏观经济形势交换了意见”。
On Friday, Waldron met China’s Vice-Minister of Finance Liao Min in Beijing, where the two “exchanged views on China-US economic and trade relations and the two countries’ macroeconomic situations”, according to the ministry.
周日会议期间，华尔顿还呼吁上海推动跨境数据流动，并在上海自由贸易试验区内的临港新片区扩大跨境数据传输试点项目。
During the Sunday meeting, Waldron also called on Shanghai to facilitate cross-border data flow and expand its pilot programme for cross-border data transfers in the Lingang New Area, a special area within the Shanghai free-trade zone.
他指出，跨境数据传输的限制可能导致“信息孤岛”，阻碍依赖全球风险控制和IT平台的中国企业上海团队充分发挥其组织的全球能力。
Restrictions on cross-border data transfers could create “information silos”, preventing Shanghai-based teams at Chinese companies that rely on global risk control and IT platforms from fully leveraging their organisations’ global capabilities, he noted.
华尔顿还建议上海通过简化签证申请、建立高管职业资格和管理经验的互认机制等措施，提升对国际专业人才的吸引力。
Waldron also urged Shanghai to make the city more attractive to international professionals through measures such as simplifying visa applications and establishing mutual recognition of professional qualifications and management experience for senior executives.
他表示，上海具备成为全球人才领先目的地的条件，指出这是一个“高管们……愿意居住”的城市。
He said Shanghai was well positioned to become a leading destination for global talent, noting that it was a city “where executives would ... be happy to live”.
“进一步投资，使全球人才在上海的生活和工作更加便利和顺畅，这一点非常重要，”他补充道。
“More investment in further making it easier and more seamless for global talent to live and work in Shanghai is something that’s very important,” he added.