In this episode of Women Changing Finance, Yijing Wang, founding partner of 2060 Advisory, a pioneering impact investing firm based in Shanghai, explains how China’s social and environmental entrepreneurs are building new solutions. We explore what’s happening on the ground in China: artisan cooperatives that support vulnerable women, inclusive tech startups, and climate ventures creating low-carbon concrete and plastic alternatives. These are powerful innovations, yet many global investors overlook China’s potential in solving urgent global challenges. Yijing shares what it means to work in this gap: building trust between local changemakers and capital providers, navigating a fragmented funding landscape, and pushing for stronger collaboration despite geopolitical headwinds. She also explains how 2060 Advisory is helping translate between sectors and align finance with sustainability goals that matter at the local level. This conversation is a rare window into China’s impact space, and a reminder that systems change is happening in many languages, and led by women everywhere.

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To go further here are some of the references mentioned during the episode:

• 2060 Advisory https://www.2060advisory.com/
• China Alliance of Social Value Investment (CASVI) https://www.casvi.org/en/
• British Council, Social Enterprise Programme in China https://www.britishcouncil.cn/en/uk-china-social-enterprise-social-investment-partners
• Impact Management Platform (IMP) https://impactmanagementplatform.org/
• IRIS+ by the GIIN https://iris.thegiin.org/
• UNDP China https://www.undp.org/china/sdg-finance
• Yijing Wang was awarded the 2023 British Council Business and Innovation Award https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2023/how-award-winning-cambridge-graduate-is-changing-impact-investment-in-china/