Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, met with Wu Fulin, Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of China, and representatives of official export credit agencies of various countries who came to Shanghai to attend the 29th Asian Export-Import Bank Forum Annual Meeting.

Chen Jining welcomed the holding of the 29th Asian Export-Import Bank Forum Annual Meeting in Shanghai, expressed gratitude to the Export-Import Bank of China for its long-term positive contribution to Shanghai's development, and introduced the latest situation of Shanghai's economic and social development. He said that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China drew up a grand blueprint for basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035. The starting point and goal of all our work is to let the people live a better life. As China's economic center city and a frontier window for reform and opening up, Shanghai is deepening the construction of an international economic, financial, trade, shipping and scientific and technological innovation center, striving to give full play to its leading and exemplary role in promoting China's modernization. The Export-Import Bank of China is the largest official export credit institution in the world. All of you here come from official export credit institutions of various countries. As urban renewal, industrial transformation, penetration of scientific and technological innovation, and adjustment of consumption structure continue to accelerate, it has opened up a broader space for all parties to deepen cooperation. We hope to better play the role of professional institutions, grasp the development trend of digitalization, intelligence and green, make good use of Shanghai's international platform, place more new institutions, new businesses, and new projects in Shanghai, continuously enrich financial products, innovate financial service standards, and jointly promote the formation of closer economic and trade cooperation relations to better serve enterprise development and industrial transformation. We will unswervingly deepen high-level reform and opening up, make every effort to create a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment, and support global financial institutions and enterprises to achieve greater success in Shanghai with the long-term, stable and predictable development environment. Great development.

Wu Fulin, President of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation Lim Shin Quang, Chairman and President of the Import and Export Bank of Korea Yoon Hee Seng, and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Chalong Mohzani said that Shanghai is an important window for the world to observe China, a vane of the Asian economy, and the first choice for global companies to enter the investment and exhibition industry in China. Through Shanghai as a cutting-edge window, we fully feel the clear attitude and powerful actions of China to comprehensively deepen reforms and expand high-level opening up to the outside world. The Asian Export-Import Banks Forum is committed to strengthening communication and cooperation between official export credit agencies of various countries and supporting regional economic and trade development. We are willing to give full play to our professional advantages, focus our products and funds on the forefront window of China's reform and opening up, provide more financial support for economic and trade exchanges, cross-border investment, and industrial transformation, and better achieve win-win development.

Shanghai City leaders Li Zheng and Xie Dong, and Wang Chunying, President of the Export-Import Bank of China, attended the meeting.

(Photo taken by Chen Zhengbao in this article)