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This article presents a summary of the "Seminar on editing and publishing modern Tianjin's financial history," held November 9-10, 2010, in Tianjin, China, and sponsored by the Tianjin Archive. More than 50 experts and scholars from Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and other cities attended this meeting, and 40 papers were presented. The first part of the article summarizes the relationship between the financial industry and Tianjin as a financial center. The second part discusses currency, financial markets, and market trends. The third part discusses financial structure, bankers, and banks. The fourth covers location and characteristics of archival materials and other miscellaneous topics. The fifth covers key issues raised by the primary source materials.