On March 31, China Merchants Port and Ping An OneConnect held the signing ceremony of "The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Port Logistics and Trade Facilitation Blockchain Platform" project at the China Merchants Port Building. Group President Hu Jianhua, Chen Xiaoying, Commissioner of Shenzhen Customs, and Chen Xinying, Co-CEO of Ping An Group, attended the event and witnessed the signing. Huang Chuanjing, Deputy General Manager and Chief Digital Officer of China Merchants Port, and Ye Wangchun, Chairman and CEO of Ping An OneConnect, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.

According to the agreement, the two parties will, based on the principles of mutual benefit, mutual construction and win-win, give full play to their respective advantages, realize the integrated development of "industry + technology", jointly create a first-class trade facilitation platform, and forge China Merchants' ePort digital port logistics ecosystem.

Hu Jianhua pointed out that the cooperation between China Merchants Port and Ping An OneConnect is the concrete action to implement the instructions of "take blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, and accelerate the development of blockchain and industrial innovation" and the "Outline for Building China's Strength in Transport". China Merchants Port and Ping An OneConnect can complement each other's advantages. With the strong support of Shenzhen Customs, both parties will be able to establish an optimal cooperation model to achieve win-win and sustainable development. Chen Xiaoying stated that the two strong forces work together to apply the blockchain technology to the port logistics industry and break many bottlenecks of the traditional international supply chain. It is believed that it will inject new impetus to the accelerated development of modern logistics services and generate significant influences.