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We build our model upon the sequence labeling model, but enhance it with word information by incorporating the word lexicon into the character representations. We further exploit the inter-dependencies between event triggers and argument by building a word-character-based graph network via syntactic shortcut arcs with dependency-parsing. The architecture of the graph minimizes error propagation, which is the result of the error detection of the word boundaries in the processing of Chinese texts. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our work, we build a large-scale real-world corpus consisting of announcements of Chinese financial news without golden entities. 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