Recently, the Export-Import Bank of China Shanghai Branch, Jiangsu Branch, Zhejiang Branch, Ningbo Branch and Anhui Branch held a symposium on the coordinated promotion of Yangtze River Delta integration in Ningbo.

The meeting conscientiously studied the spirit of the important speech of the Symposium on Deepening the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta, the spirit of the Central Financial Work Conference, the Central Economic Work Conference, and the spirit of the National Two Sessions, closely focused on the important deployment made by Chairman Wu Fulin at the Yangtze River Delta Branch Symposium last year, closely followed the two keywords of "integration and high quality", and jointly planned to continue to deepen the working mechanism of the Yangtze River Delta integration and coordinated promotion, and make greater efforts to promote the high-quality and sustainable development of the Bank's business in the Yangtze River Delta region.

The meeting summarized the integrated and collaborative work of the Yangtze River Delta in recent years, and achieved good results in terms of working mechanism, collaborative mode, project linkage, and bank-government cooperation. The branches in the region actively explore the collaborative development model of "party building and joint promotion, business collaboration, management linkage, and effect sharing", focus on serving the coordinated development of the industrial chain and supply chain in the Yangtze River Delta, focus on the dynamics of key areas such as integrated circuits, new energy vehicles, and biomedicine, actively carry out industrial chain research, and sort out the list of key enterprises. Cooperate with the corporate department, transportation department, review department and regional branches of the head office to jointly carry out joint marketing, joint approval and credit delivery, and more than 20 projects have been implemented and reserved.

At the just-held 2024 work site meeting of the Hongqiao International Open Hub, the head office led the branches of three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta as the only financial institution to release the "Policy Finance Empowerment Hongqiao International Open Hub Plan" on the spot, which issued a "voice of mouth" and demonstrated "strength of mouth" with practical actions. As of the end of 2023, the credit balance of the five branches in the Yangtze River Delta region accounted for more than 15% of the bank's total credit balance, and the credit growth rate reached 9.92%. The War Planning Department, the Capital Liability Department, and the Customer Service Department of the head office expressed their support for the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, gave guidance on strategic planning, research work, credit delivery, risk prevention and control, and put forward requirements for the next step.

The year 2024 marks the sixth anniversary of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as a national strategy, and the Yangtze River Delta region has a pivotal strategic position in the overall situation of national modernization and all-round opening up. In the next step, under the strong leadership of the Party Committee of the Head Office, under the guidance and support of the relevant departments of the Head Office, the Yangtze River Delta Regional Branch will take the business cooperation promotion meeting as an opportunity, in accordance with the deployment of the Party Committee of the Head Office, based on its own location and functional advantages, jointly plan and explore the paths and measures to deepen the linkage within the bank and better support and serve the integrated and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta, so as to further enhance the innovation ability, industrial competitiveness and development level of the Yangtze River Delta region, and better support and serve the Chinese-style modernization.