13 January 2020, a delegation from China Everbright Limited (“Everbright”, Stock Code：165.HK) led by Mr. Zhao Wei, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Everbright, and Mr. Zhang Mingao, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of Everbright, visited the Monetary Authority of Macau. The delegation held a meeting with Ms. Lau Hang Kun, member of the Board of Directors of the Monetary Authority of Macau, together with other senior officials from the Banking Supervision Department of the Monetary Authority of Macau, to better understand Macau’s financial regulation policies and innovations in the banking business, as well as discuss cooperation plans for the future.

As Macau celebrates the 20th anniversary of its reunification to China, Everbright hopes to enhance their cooperation with the Monetary Authority of Macau in the area of financial innovation. Everbright will fully utilise the Group’s advantages in full asset management, setting up bases in Hong Kong and Macau, and facilitate the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (the “GBA”) in order to serve the Belt and Road Initiative and Portuguese-speaking countries. Everbright will provide financial inclusion services for individual clients as well as micro, small and medium enterprises via Everbright’s leading financial technologies.

Ms. Lau Hang Kun, member of the Board of Directors of the Monetary Authority of Macau, welcomed the delegation led by Mr. Zhao Wei. She expressed hopes that Everbright would make the most of its advantages to explore the field of financial innovation, stimulate Macau’s financial development with local characteristics, and promote appropriate economic diversification in Macau.