Huang Bo welcomed the visit of Zhu Tao and his delegation, and expressed gratitude for the long-term support of COSCO Shipping Port. He pointed out that Guangzhou Port Group has deeply learned and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on port development, accelerating the construction of smart ports and digital transformation through management innovation, technological innovation, and service innovation, and cultivating new quality productive forces. With the thinking of integrating supply chain elements, based on the advantages of hub ports and collection and distribution, Guangzhou Port Group implements the development strategy of “hub + channel + network”, builds full supply chain service products, and shapes new development advantages. Guangzhou Port Group has a solid foundation and broad prospects for cooperation with COSCO Shipping Ports. It is hoped that the two parties will further deepen the mutually beneficial and win-win relationship, comprehensively improve the port service capacity, jointly strengthen and optimize the international land and sea routes, effectively reduce the logistics costs of the whole society, and provide strong support for better serving the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, and further opening up the domestic and international dual circulation.

 

Zhu Tao expressed gratitude for the support of Guangzhou Port Group and affirmed the cooperation results achieved by both parties. He stated that COSCO Shipping Ports has always been committed to the “bigger picture of the country”, seizing the opportunities of global development, practicing the ideas of specialization, globalization, green and low-carbon development, and contributing to building China into a powerful transportation, maritime and shipping country. COSCO Shipping Ports and Guangzhou Port Group are old friends and good partners, and their development strategies and concepts are highly compatible. It is hoped that both parties will leverage their resource combination advantages, further deepen cooperation in enhancing port capacity, building logistics channels, constructing smart low-carbon ports, constructing global supply chain nodes, etc, build a new model of cooperation between central and local enterprises, ensure stable and smooth global industrial and supply chains, and make greater contributions to better serving national strategies.

 

Deputy General Manager Chen Yipeng, and Chief Accountant Zhao Fengnian from COSCO Shipping Ports, Wei Tongjun, Chief Economist of Guangzhou Port Group, General Manager Zheng Lingtang, and Deputy General Manager Sun Bangcheng from Guangzhou Port Co., Ltd., Feng Hongde, Assistant General Manager of Guangzhou Port Group, and relevant responsible persons from both parties attended the meeting. (Text by Deng Bo, Picture by Huang Yong’an)