On October 21, Zhang Shouchuan, Vice President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and his delegation visited Huayou Headquarters for an exchange and were warmly received by Chen Xuehua, Chairman of Huayou Holding Group. Leaders from relevant ICBC head office departments, the Jakarta Branch in Indonesia, and ICBC Zhejiang provincial branches, along with Qian Xiaoping, Vice President of Huayou Cobalt, attended the exchange.

Vice President Zhang Shouchuan expressed deep admiration for the achievements Huayou Group has made through 32 years of dedicated focus on the new energy and new materials industry, as well as Chairman Chen Xuehua's entrepreneurial passion. He noted that Huayou has consistently expanded its industrial and innovation chains with a global perspective and vigorously developed the green circular economy, making positive contributions to safeguarding national resource and energy security and promoting the high-quality development of the real economy. He stated that over the years, ICBC and Huayou Group have empowered each other, building a partnership of high mutual trust and benefit. ICBC will deepen its comprehensive financial services, accelerate the development of its sci-tech finance ecosystem platform, deepen cooperation across Huayou's business segments, continuously optimize products and improve services, and provide Huayou with comprehensive, high-quality financial support, working hand in hand to make contributions to the endeavor of advancing China’s strong energy nation development.

Chairman Chen Xuehua extended a warm welcome to Vice President Zhang Shouchuan and his delegation and expressed sincere gratitude for the high-quality financial support ICBC has long provided. He noted that ICBC was the only bank that participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of Huayou Cobalt, and that Huayou Cobalt's primary settlement account was also opened with ICBC, reflecting the deep-rooted cooperation between the two sides. Huayou remains committed to its main track of new energy lithium battery materials, has established a business pattern of "Global Resources, Global Manufacturing, Global Markets," and is advancing the "One Core, Two Poles, Four Modernizations" development strategy to achieve profitable and sustainable growth. He said that ICBC, as an important strategic partner of Huayou, offers broad space for cooperation, and expressed the hope that both sides will continue to expand the breadth and depth of cooperation, innovate industry-finance synergy models, and jointly build a benchmark of finance empowering the new energy and new materials real-economy industries.

Prior to the exchange, Vice President Zhang Shouchuan and his delegation visited Huayou's Global Exhibition Hall to learn in detail about the Group's development history, global industrial layout, and future development plans.