To thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, accurately fulfill the relevant arrangements of the “15th Five-Year Plan” proposals, anchor the goal of building a world-class bay area and a world-class urban agglomeration full of vitality and international competitiveness, and fully serve the coordinated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), Everbright Bank successfully held the “March into the Greater Bay Area” Financial Services Promotion Conference in Shenzhen on November 27.
Gathering forces from government, enterprises and research institutions, the event invited more than 50 representatives of key enterprises in science and technology innovation, trade and other fields to conduct in-depth exchanges around regional development, bank-enterprise cooperation and other topics, strengthen industry-finance coordination, and inject financial momentum into the high-quality development of the GBA.
At present, the GBA has formed trade, science and technology innovation, and financial centers with Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong as the core. It has further stepped up efforts in industrial transformation and upgrading, regional coordinated development, and the domestic and international dual circulation, implemented the new development concept, and built a new development pattern.
Ma Bo, Dean of Everbright Financial Research Institute, stated that in line with the relevant requirements of “promoting regional coordinated development” in the “15th Five-Year Plan” proposals, Everbright Bank has specially developed the “Comprehensive Financial Services Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”. Focusing on four key areas—scientific and technological innovation, cross-border finance, domestic and foreign trade, and regional coordinated development—the plan aims to support the GBA in enhancing its role as a driving force for high-quality development. In the field of scientific and technological innovation, Everbright Bank has made targeted layouts: launching the “Mengxing Series” products tailored for future industries such as embodied intelligence and deep-sea economy, and the “Xinxing Series” products for key industries including integrated circuits and industrial mother machines, providing full-cycle and multi-scenario financial solutions for enterprises in the GBA.
Shang Wencheng, President of Everbright Bank Shenzhen Branch, said that to support the development of new quality productive forces this year, Everbright Bank has explored and built an exclusive investment-loan linkage service model in Shenzhen. It matches phased credit issuance with the financing arrangements of sci-tech enterprises at various stages, and has increased support for key “bottleneck” areas such as chips, advanced communications and advanced manufacturing, as well as major national infrastructure projects. Looking ahead, in conjunction with the Comprehensive Financial Services Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Everbright Bank will adhere to a customer-centric approach and provide companion financial services for enterprises throughout the start-up, growth and mature stages.
During the event, relevant personnel from Everbright Bank, Everbright Securities and Everbright Wealth Management respectively introduced their featured services and products specifically for sci-tech enterprises in the GBA. They also held discussions and exchanges with invited enterprises to accurately match business needs and refine cooperation scenarios.
Participating enterprises spoke highly of the new achievements of Everbright Bank in the field of sci-tech finance. A person in charge of an industrial fund stated that they will strengthen investment-loan coordination with Everbright Bank and Everbright Securities to increase support for sci-tech enterprises in the bay area. Some financial directors of enterprises emphasized the strong support from Everbright Bank during their start-up and R&D phases, which accompanied the companies’ growth. Now, as they prepare for listing, they hope to further deepen cooperation with Everbright. Participating enterprises also reached three important consensuses: first, financial institutions can further increase long-term financing support for sci-tech enterprises during the technological R&D stage; second, continuously improve the online and digital level of financial products to achieve efficient connection of capital flow and information flow between banks and enterprises, and enhance service response efficiency; third, financial institutions can rely on their own customer networks and industrial resources to build bridges for upstream and downstream cooperation among sci-tech enterprises, recommend application scenarios, and extend non-financial value-added services. These consensuses point out the direction for further deepening bank-enterprise docking and strengthening industry-finance coordination.
The successful holding of the “March into the Greater Bay Area” Everbright Financial Services Promotion Conference is a vivid practice of Everbright Bank actively implementing national strategies, fulfilling the requirements of the “15th Five-Year Plan” proposals, and helping regional coordinated development. In the future, Everbright Bank will continue to deepen its presence in the GBA market, continuously iterate and optimize the comprehensive financial services plan, and support the coordinated development and high-quality construction of the GBA with more high-quality and efficient financial services, contributing Everbright’s strength to the effective implementation of national regional development strategies.
