On December 17, 2016 local time, China Merchants Chairman Li Jianhong met in Hong Kong with Lu Zhipeng, CPC Nantong Municipal Committee Secretary, exchanging ideas about future development. CMG Executive Vice President Sun Chengming, CFO Fu Gangfeng. Executive Vice President Wang Hong, Assistant President Hong Xiaoyuan and Director Li Yinquan attended the meeting.

Li Jianhong said that Group's investment covered widely in Nantong, such as offshore engineering, ship repairing, finance, logistics, real estate and etc.. In the recent years, CMG explored business in cruise, health industry and insurance, which provided a great opportunity to a higher-level cooperation between Nantong and Group.