On May 29, Group President Hu Jianhua met with Zhang Huaguo, President of China Development Bank Shenzhen Branch.

Hu Jianhua said that China Merchants Group and China Development Bank had established a favourable cooperative relationship in successive steps ever since the Sri Lanka project. The two parties carried out in-depth cooperation on several significant projects in the spirit of a high level of mutual trust and achieved outstanding results. In the future, he hoped that both parties would continue to strengthen mutual trust and develop a closer cooperative partnership. Zhang Huaguo gave an overview of China Development Bank Shenzhen Branch and stated that China Merchants Group is a customer of great importance to China Development Bank. The Shenzhen branch will continue to promote further cooperation between the two parties on major business and achieve win-win cooperation.