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Should China continue to open its financial system? Our answer to this question is positive since financial opening is necessary for supporting economic innovation, containing financial risks and participating in international economic governance. However, the needs some new ideas in devising next-stage financial opening policies including replacing the experimental approach by more systemic method and top-level design, combining ‘using reform to assist opening’ and ‘promoting reform through opening’, and taking into full account of the spillover effects of Chinese financial policies. Finally, we make policy recommendations in seven key areas, including enforcing better policy coordination, devising macro-prudential regulations, increasing exchange rate flexibility, opening the domestic financial markets, relaxing restrictions on businesses of foreign financial institutions, improving external financing cooperation and adopting prudent cross-border capital flow management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]