Since the first China International Trade Fair was held, ICBC has been committed to providing all-round high-quality financial services for China International Trade Fair and continuously improving the breadth and depth of services. In September this year, the industrial and Commercial Bank of China signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with the China International Import Expo Bureau, becoming a comprehensive partner of the fourth China International Import Expo. Based on the successful experience of serving the first three sessions of the Expo, ICBC will participate in and serve the Expo from the multi-dimensional aspects of investment attraction, supporting activities, transaction promotion and financial services with wider participation, smarter financial products and higher service standards, so as to build an interconnection bridge for the merchants participating in the Expo and make the fourth Expo a success The wonderful and fruitful event actively contributed to the wisdom and strength of ICBC.
Sheng invites global merchants to share opportunities for entering the Expo
During the fourth China International Fair, ICBC will host a number of enterprise dialogue, consultation and forum supporting activities, and provide customers with global, intelligent and professional service guarantee. Relying on one belt, one road, the interbank normalization cooperation mechanism (BRBR) and the two international platforms of the China EU business alliance, ICBC will focus on the Hongqiao International Economic Forum, “green finance for sustainable development” sub forum and the China EU entrepreneurs’ conference. “Green finance helps one belt, one road”, the high level representatives of Chinese and foreign financial institutions and enterprises will be invited to participate in the forum. The blueprint of sustainable and inclusive development of the world will be drawn up and the latest achievements of green bank in green finance will be released. The China EU Entrepreneurs Conference will invite high-level representatives of China EU governments and enterprises and members of the China EU business alliance to express their insights on building China EU green partners and tapping new drivers of China EU digital cooperation. At the same time, it will also release the overall brand of ICBC in the field of global financial services.
For the first time, ICBC has provided accurate services to merchants entering the Expo through entrusted exhibition arrangement.
ICBC also innovated the service form of this Expo, providing exhibition venues for nearly 50 overseas enterprises from about 20 countries and regions in the food and agricultural products exhibition area for the first time through entrusted exhibition arrangement, accurately serving the merchants entering the Expo, helping customers overcome the epidemic restrictions and realize the transformation of business scenario from “business” to “business”. Since the outbreak of covid-19 pneumonia, ICBC has been carrying out the “Chun Rong action” to provide special assistance to key foreign trade and foreign funded enterprises, and fully protect the foreign trade industry chain and supply chain. In the first nine months of this year, the “spring financing action” has issued local and foreign currency financing equivalent to nearly 1 trillion yuan to key foreign trade foreign-funded enterprises and their overseas upstream and downstream enterprises.
Gather forces from all over the world to build a global trade and financial platform
ICBC actively utilizes the global business layout and is committed to improving the service capacity of the global trade finance platform. One belt, one road, was established in 426 countries in 49 countries and 6 by the end of 2021. It has extended to 20 countries in Africa through its participation in Standard Bank of South Africa, and has 125 branches in 21 countries along the “one belt and one road” network, covering six continents and important international financial centers worldwide. It has a huge customer base of more than 9 million corporate customers and nearly 700 million individual customers in the world.
Since 2021, ICBC has organized a total of 13 offline and online investment fairs, with more than 1000 domestic and foreign enterprises and trade promotion institutions from more than 20 countries and regions participating. In terms of overseas exhibition recruitment, ICBC linked with overseas branches and successfully held 7 “cloud promotion” activities, attended by representatives of nearly 1000 enterprises and exhibition organizations; Successfully promoted the participation of enterprises from 10 countries including Angola, Ghana, Rwanda, Luxembourg, Peru and Colombia. In terms of domestic investment promotion, six exchange and docking activities were held in Beijing, Shanghai and other places, and more than 140 buyers were invited to participate. Among them, more than ten exhibitors of the world’s top 500 medical devices were invited to have a direct dialogue with many well-known third-class hospitals and other medical institutions in Shanghai at the exhibition of medical devices and medical health care; More than 100 exhibitors and channel purchasers were attracted to participate in many food and agricultural products exhibition area exchange meetings for economic and trade exchanges.
Focus on the needs of customers and integrate financial supporting services
In order to meet the diversified financial needs of exhibitors and purchasers of the Expo, ICBC upgraded and launched the comprehensive financial service scheme of “intelligent enjoyment of ICBC Huiju Expo” for the fourth Expo, customized the six in one financial product system of “intelligence, speed, integrity, excellence, cloud and number” for the Expo, and built a financial bridge for the interconnection of Global trade in the post epidemic period. For example, support domestic purchasers’ wechat online reservation account opening service and overseas exhibitors’ witness account opening service, use “cloud customer service” to establish intelligent service scenarios and provide one-stop account services; Provide exhibitors and purchasers with corporate currency exchange and interest rate and exchange rate hedging tools including forward foreign exchange settlement and sales, options, option portfolio, exchange rate swap, hedging and interest rate swap, add 10 foreign exchange settlement and sales currencies, and support the personal exchange business of 26 foreign currency currencies.
At the Expo, ICBC will officially release the global financial service brand - “ICBC global bank”. Based on the “preferred bank for domestic foreign exchange business” strategy of ICBC, the brand aims to reflect the international vision and global business philosophy of ICBC in recent years, comprehensively improve the effectiveness of cross-border and cross market financial service capabilities, help customers accurately obtain the required products and improve the global customer service experience through brand integration.
In this Expo, ICBC will also introduce digital RMB into the Expo for the first time, launch the “financial e-purchase” platform of ICBC in the Expo Cultural and creative Museum, strive to build a digital consumer finance ecosystem, and continuously expand the financial service scene, covering major fields such as smart people’s livelihood, digital government affairs, commercial empowerment and peer cooperation. At the same time, ICBC also upgraded the “global matchmaking Hui 2.0” platform, opened up online and offline space barriers, and built a global “circle of friends” with information sharing and mutual benefit.
Build the foundation of service and comprehensively improve offline service
Comprehensive cooperation association between ICBC and China International Import Expo Bureau