This conference aims to bring together researchers and policymakers to discuss consumer finance development and its impacts on economic development and quality of lifein China, an emerging market.This conference welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers on a variety of topics associated with consumerfinance related social indicators, such as consumer incomes, expenditures, debts, assets, and financial satisfaction, and these factorsˇ impacts on quality of life. The selected papers will be published in a special issue of Social Indicators Research after the conference