Chen Jining separately met with the Global CEO of French Sanofi Group, Olivier Guald, and the Chairman of HSBC Group in the UK, Peter Wong.

This morning, the Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Chen Jining, separately met with the Global CEO of the French company Sanofi, Gler Hep, and the Chairman of the International Entrepreneur Consultative Conference of the Mayor of Shanghai, Nigel Higgins of HSBC Group from Britain. Chen Jining said that Shanghai will further increase its innovation and research and development efforts, place more innovation research projects and global synchronized development projects in Shanghai, strengthen cooperation with local innovative pharmaceutical companies, better participate in building industrial ecology, and work together to strengthen and expand the pharmaceutical industry. HSBC Group is one of the largest financial institutions globally, and it is welcomed to better grasp the new demands of economic and social development, leverage its global resource network and professional advantages, deepen cooperation in areas such as technology finance, green finance, urban renewal, cross-border and offshore finance, and assisting enterprises in going global to provide insights for Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a regulatory system that is in line with the open and innovative international financial center.