On August 26, 2019 Smart China Expo opened in Chongqing. Focusing on "exhibition", "show", "competition" and "theory", the Smart China Expo showcased new products, new technologies, new formats and new models of the global intelligent industry, attracting nearly 20 Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award winners and Fields Medal winners, nearly 100 well-known academicians at home and abroad, and more than 40 heads of Fortune Global 500 enterprises.

At the Expo, Hanhua Financial Holding with subordinate company CCIFT signed a series of major project cooperation agreements with domestic and foreign industrial partners to further strengthen and accelerate the layout and implementation of the collaborative innovation and development strategy of industry and finance.

On August 25, at the Central Signing of Major Investment Projects in Yubei District in 2019 sponsored by Yubei District Government, Hanhua Financial Holding and Yubei District Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement on jointly promoting comprehensive financial services in industrial parks. Hanhua Financial Holding will work with all its financial service agencies to provide high-level inclusive financial services, fully promote the high-quality economic development of Yubei District, and assist in the construction of National Airport Economic Demonstration Zone in Chongqing, China-Singapore Connectivity Project and Inland International Financial Center. Major leaders of Yubei District government and heads of relevant units in the District attended the signing ceremony.

On August 26, at the Major Projects Signing Ceremony of the 2019 Smart China Expo, the Yubei District Government, Hanhua Financial Holding, Cocoon Networks and Magna Carta Island International Innovation Centre Ltd jointly signed a cooperation agreement on building a digital inclusive financial industry cluster in the presence of leaders of relevant ministries and commissions of the country, leaders of Chongqing Municipality and important guests at home and abroad.

On the same day, at the China-Britain "Smart Future" Intelligence Industry Cooperation Summit Forum of the 2019 Smart China Expo jointly organized by the Department for International Trade, Chongqing Cloud Computing And Big Data Industry Association and China-Britain Business Council, CCIFT and UKDE jointly signed a cooperation agreement on establishing an international supply chain finance and cross-border trade settlement platform in the presence of Li Mingqing, the vice mayor of Chongqing, and Graham Stuart, the minister of Investment of Department for International Trade. The two sides will give full play to their respective resource advantages in China, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Britain, Europe and other relevant countries' governments and public institutions, international financial organizations and institutions, international trade associations and chambers of commerce, financial science and technology and financial services, and rely on the China-Singapore Connectivity Project to assist the construction of China-Singapore Fintech Cooperation Demonstration Zone.

On August 27, CCIFT and China Communications Services Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of China Comservice, signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the headquarter of Hanhua Financial Holding. The two sides will go on an all-round business cooperation on projects related to smart parks, smart communities, smart campuses and smart cities with superior resources.

At present, Chongqing is fully implementing the "two-point" orientation, "two places" and "two high" goals put forward by general secretary Xi Jinping and the important spirit of "three roles". At the same time, Chongqing is firmly pushing forward the development strategy of big data intelligence, accelerating digital industrialization and industry digitization, promoting the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, and striving to use intelligence to empower the economy and inject momentum to life. Hanhua Financial Holding will continue to give full play to its pioneering advantages in inclusive financial industry, work with partners in the industrial ecosystem to jointly assist Chongqing in promoting the new development of intelligent industry, jointly open up the "New Blue Ocean" of digital economy, and make great contributions to the development of "the belt and road initiative".

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1. Hanhua Financial Holding Co., Ltd. was founded in 2004 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2014. It is currently the most comprehensive, largest and nationwide inclusive financial comprehensive service group serving small and medium-sized enterprises in China. The company is going on a way of highly diversified equity and practicing a good public corporate governance structure with a full format layout of ten types of financial licenses, including private banks, financial asset management (AMC), securities companies (preparation), financing guarantees, financial asset trading centers, Internet credit, financial factoring, financial leasing, Internet insurance sales, private equity funds, etc. It can offer the comprehensive financial service of "equity+claim+trade+insurance" in a closed loop. Up to now, the company has set up 138 subsidiary corporations in 28 provinces and regions of the country with a professional team of 1,600 people, management assets of over RMB120 billion and management funds of over RMB 10 billion, serving more than 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises, more than 1,000 listed companies and more than 500 large and medium-sized enterprises.

2. CCIFT is an investment and development organization in international high-end industrial park approved by China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity (CCI) Administrative Bureau. The company with a registered capital of RMB 1 billion is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hanhua Financial Holding Co., Ltd. (HKSE.3903), the national inclusive financial comprehensive service group with the most complete format, largest scale and most services for small and medium-sized enterprises in China. The core mission of CCIFT is to give full play to its operational advantages in resources, capital, fund, assets, qualifications and other high-end elements within the framework of the China-Singapore Connectivity Project, and to assist the governments of China and Singapore as well as superior and strong enterprises to jointly build a high-starting, high-level and innovative China-Singapore Connectivity Project.

3. Cocoon Networks is currently the largest integrated business service platform between China and Europe. The company is committed to creating an ecosystem of multinational enterprises to facilitate the connectivity of the leading European science and technology projects with the Chinese market and capital. As an international investment company, it directly invests in high-quality industrial projects and initiates and manages industrial funds, providing an accessible physical platform for business cooperation, talent exchange, project pooling and community construction between China and Europe.

4. Magna Carta Island International Innovation Centre Ltd is the birthplace of new knowledge, new technology, new products and new industries in the world with 3 functions of scientific research, technological innovation and industrial drive. (1) Scientific research: It is an important source of new knowledge in the world which gathers many world-class universities and research institutions in Britain and integrates personnel training and knowledge innovation. (2) Technological innovation: It gathers a large number of world-class scientific and technological enterprises, multinational companies and venture capital companies, generates a large number of new technologies on the basis of knowledge innovation, and drives the global industrial transformation through product innovation, market innovation and management innovation. (3) Industrial drive: The invention and marketization of its new technologies promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, especially manufacturing, and help improve the competitiveness of cities and the national real economy.

5. UKDE is a financial technology group which is located in the City of London and is committed to providing safe, compliant and convenient digital financial services to the global top enterprises. The businesses are mainly digital finance and block chain science and technology services to generate global digital financial service providers including block chain science and technology services, digital financial settlement services and block chain venture investment.

6. China Communications Services Corporation Limited, an independent legal entity under the Hong Kong listed company China Comservice (00552.HK), is mainly engaged in Internet voice value-added service, comprehensive maintenance of information equipment, installation and maintenance of communications, sales of information terminals, and integration and construction of communication engineering systems, etc. with business qualifications such as general contract of communication engineering, business license of value-added telecommunications services, integration of communication information network systems, and professional contract of intelligent construction engineering. Its domestic business covers the whole area of eastern Guangdong extending to Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou, Henan and other provinces as well as South Africa and other countries. Focusing on building smart series and general-purpose capability products, China Communications Services Corporation Limited adhere to promote smart products for China's communication services, form solutions around key industries such as operators, Party, government and army, construction real estate, electricity, transportation, Internet /IT technology, build smart cities, boost digital China and serve a better life.