On the afternoon of March 4th, the 18th session of the series entitled “Finance Propels the Opening of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” was held online by the International Monetary Research Institute (IMI) and the Department of Monetary Finance, School of Finance, Renmin University of China (RUC) with the theme of “The Impact of Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Financial Markets”. Hong Hao, special researcher of IMI, Managing Director and chief strategy analyst of BOCOM International, shared his perspectives on this topic, and the experts of IMI and invited guests held a wide closed-door discussion. The salon was moderated by Qu Qiang, Assistant Director of IMI, RUC.