Setting up Financial Literacy Month and Strengthening Financial Consumer Protection

The financial consumer education is the first line of defense of financial consumer protection,and is the important content and instrument of financial consumer protection.The paper studies the experience and practices of financial consumer education in foreign countries,and expatiates on the practices of financial consumer education carried out in Xi'an Branch PBC.On the basis of above analysis,the paper suggests that the government should set up Financial Literacy Month in China and construct a long-term and effective mechanism of improving national financial quality to strengthen financial consumer protection.