On July 28, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd. (CEB) signed a Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation in Shenzhen. Sha Yan, the President & CEO of SZSE, and Wang Zhiheng, the President of CEB attended the signing ceremony.

Established in August 1992, CEB is a nationalcommercial banklimited by shares asapproved by the State Council and the People's Bank of China. Guided by the strategic vision of “building a first-class wealth management bank”, CEB actively provides high-quality financial services to technology enterprises, private enterprises and SMEs, and has forged a strong market competitive edge in areas such as wealth management, financial technology and diversified financials. Therefore, CEB has achieved a balanced growth of all business lines, with improved risk management and enhanced innovation capabilities, and has become a well-functioning and influential listed bank.

In recent years, SZSE has earnestly acted in the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the capital market and the major decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, worked unswervingly both to consolidate and develop the public sector and to encourage, support, and guidethedevelopment of the non-public sector. Specifically, SZSE has promoted the deep integrationbetween the capital market and commercial banks, betterleveraged the main channel of direct financing, continued to improve the market system, product system, service system and opening-up system in support of high-tech enterprises and private enterprises, facilitated the allocation of financial resources to the field oftechnology and innovation, and actively boosted the growth of strategic emerging industries.

SZSE and CEB have been working closely in various aspects such as bond business and market cultivation. Both parties have carried out a number of bond market training and enterprise cultivation activities to jointly serve high-quality innovative enterprises. In addition, CEB has played an active part in underwriting the SZSE-listed rate bonds. According to the Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation, both parties will carry out more pragmatic cooperation in various areas such as establishing a comprehensive communication mechanism, making a concerted effort to improve the quality and efficiency ofservices to corporate clients, carrying out business cooperation between financial markets, and advancing product innovation and information sharing, so as to support the innovative development of SMEs, contribute to the sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening at higher levels, and assist in building a modern industrial system.

On the same day, CEB and SZSE held the “SetSail to Win” investment and financing roadshows for the key companies.Through the combination of “online + offline” approach, a number of outstanding science and technology innovation enterprises and SMEs wereinvited to participate in the “SZSE's Open House Program” activity, and more than 80 equity investment institutions were invited to provide professional services.