2016-06-06

At 10 am of June 6^th, 2016, Chairman ZHANG Yi was invited to head the Delegation to visit Chase Shanghai Financial Valley. The Delegation was consisted of Mr. Assen Vassilev, the former Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy, Ms. Violeta Lorer, the former Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Economy and Energy, Mr. Henrich Guntermann, CEO of European Consortium of Technology Transfer, Mr. XIANG Lanxin, Professor of Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Genève), Dr. Walter HU, Deputy Secretary General of ECMDC, Mr. Antonio Stefano, Legal Assistant of ECMDC and Ingrid JIANG, Chairman of the Board, EU-China Sci-Tech Financial Center Management Co., Ltd. The Delegation held the in-depth discussion as for the bilateral cooperation along with Mr. LIN Zhenxiong, Chairman of the Board, Shanghai Chase Financial Valley Group Co., Ltd, Mr. LI Peirong, Managing Director of the Board, and JIANG Yun, Vice President. Afterwards, both parties have signed the strategic partnership framework agreement and visited Chase Shanghai Financial Valley.

Mr. ZHANG Yi and Mr. XIANG Lanxin (Left Three), Mr. Assen Vassilev (Middle), Ms. Violeta Lorer (Left Two), Mr. Henrich Guntermann (Left One) and Ingrid JIANG (Right Two), Mr. Antonio Stefano (Right One)

Shanghai Chase Financial Valley Group Co., Ltd is an innovative operator in the financial service industry. Chase Shanghai Financial Valley is located in Jiading District, Shanghai with the planned land of 67 hectares, 1.2 million square meters of covered area, and the total investment of 6 billion RMB. Chase Shanghai Financial Valley is the 5^th generation financial industry park with the new full eco-system. Chase Shanghai Financial Valley is based on the financial outsourcing service industry. It is set on becoming the new platform and the innovation-oriented, eco-friendly smart new town with internet finance as the core, financial service as the link, and the capital investment, financing as the leverage.

At the meeting, Mr. LIN Zhenxiong extended his welcome to the guests. Then he explicated in details the positioning of the Valley and its future development plan. Mr. ZHANG Yi expressed his thanks to the warm reception from the Valley and congratulated Mr. LIN on the achievements the Valley has made since the last year. He remarked, on the occasion of the 1^st anniversary of Chase Shanghai Financial Valley, the cooperation between ECMDC and the Valley would surely improve the Valley’s influence and appeal further within the concerned circle. ECMDC had assembled European high-quality resources of different sorts and formulated the detailed execution plans. Mr. LIN Zhenxiong extended his gratitude to Mr. ZHANG Yi for the strong support from ECMDC to the development of the Valley. He said, today was the perfect integration of right timing, right location and right partners. It was the purpose of the joint efforts that both parties should start with the concrete projects and set up the examples, patterns in order to take the lead in the sci-tech innovation in China. Henceforth, Chase Shanghai Financial Valley would spare no efforts to work with ECMDC to build EU-China (Shanghai) Sci-Tech Financial Center with the mission of turning the Center to be the benchmark.

Those who attended the meeting also offered their insightful opinions as for the positioning of EU-China (Shanghai) Sci-Tech Financial Center and its future development. Mr. Assen Vassilev and Ms. Violeta Lorer expressed in succession their willingness of actively participating in the work of building EU-China (Shanghai) Sci-Tech Financial Center. They said, as EU Member State, Bulgaria had its own advantages and they stood ready to make the full cooperation with ECMDC and its Chinese partners. The joint efforts could serve the good pattern for the partnership between China and Central and Eastern European countries.

Mr. Henrich Guntermann remarked, Sino-European sci-tech financial partnership would have a very promising future. As the European partner of ECMDC, European Consortium of Technology Transfer would be fully devoted to the work of selecting the best technology suppliers and the best financial partners in Europe and make its own contribution to the construction of EU-China (Shanghai) Sci-Tech Financial Center. Mr. XIANG Lanxin said, the cooperation between ECMDC and Chase Shanghai Financial Valley could become the benchmark as for “One Belt, One Road” construction in the future and serve as the reference model for Sino-European partnership.

Mr. LIN Zhenxiong, Mr. LI Peirong and Mr. JIANG Yun indicated their intentions in succession that with the devoted support and active participation from European friends, Shanghai Chase Financial Valley Group Co., Ltd would go all out to work closely with ECMDC, and present the excellent EU-China (Shanghai) Sci-Tech Financial Center to the world.

Amid the blessings of all attendees, ECMDC and Shanghai Chase Financial Valley Group Co., Ltd had signed the strategic partnership framework agreement.

The Signing of the Partnership Agreement

After the ceremony, the Delegation visited Chase Shanghai Financial Valley and had the field investigation of the future workplace of EU-China (Shanghai) Sci-Tech Financial Center. The delegates were greatly impressed by the scientific planning of Chase Shanghai Financial Valley and its beautiful environment, the complete facilities. All of them believed that European partners would feel easily at home here and be devoted to the work with Chinese colleagues. Their joint efforts of innovation and entrepreneurship would surely add the credit to the cooperation between China and Europe.

Mr. ZHANG Yi, Mr. Henrich Guntermann and Mr. Antonio Stefano at Chase Shanghai Financial Valley