On November 4, 2022, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as CASIC) signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Yuan Jie, Secretary of Party Leadership Group and Chairman of CASIC, Liu Chuandong, Member of Party Leadership Group and Chief Accountant of CASIC; Qiu Yong, Party Secretary and Chairman of SSE, Cai Jianchun, Deputy Party Secretary and President of SSE, and Dong Guoqun, member of the Party Committee and Executive Vice President of SSE, attended the signing ceremony. Liu Chuandong and Dong Guoqun signed the agreement on behalf of the two sides.
At the signing ceremony, Yuan Jie, Secretary of Party Leadership Group and Chairman of CASIC, said that by signing strategic cooperation agreement with the SSE, it is expected to further strengthen cooperation in the cultivation of high-quality enterprises for listing, promote the improvement of the quality of listed companies held by CASIC, facilitate CASIC and its affiliated companies to make better use of the SSE's financing tools, and carry out further professional cooperation. CASIC looks forward to further deepening mutual trust and coordinated development with the SSE, comprehensively learning, grasping and implementing the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, accelerating the construction of an aerospace power and making aerospace contributions to the building of a modern socialist country in all respects.
Qiu Yong, Party Secretary and Chairman of SSE, said that the report to the 20th CPC National Congress proposed that China should accelerate the achievement of sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening at higher levels and speed up the building of an aerospace power. The SSE has conscientiously implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, committed to serving the national strategies of innovation-driven development and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reform and innovation, vigorously promoted the improvement of the layout and structure of the state-owned sector, and constantly improved its ability and level to serve the real economy, thus building up the strength, quality and size of state-owned capital. After development of over three decades, the SSE has become a gathering place for large-cap blue-chip enterprises and companies with "key and core technologies", with considerable achievements in stocks, bonds, funds, derivatives, internationalization, etc. The SSE's advantages in capital market resource allocation are highly compatible with CASIC's business development characteristics. Through the signing of this agreement, we hope it can push the cooperation between the two sides to a new level and make new and greater contributions to the implementation of the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, the construction of the capital market, and the development of the aerospace industry.
In recent years, the SSE has attached great emphasis on serving SOEs and central SOEs as well as scientific and technological innovation. As the backbone of China's aerospace industry, CASIC is the main force in building an aerospace power and national defense weaponry, and is a leading enterprise in the development of China's industry information technology. As an important financial infrastructure of the capital market, the SSE can effectively promote the virtuous cycle of technology, capital and industry. The SSE and CASIC working together to promote the effective integration of capital market and sci-tech industry is of profound significance in promoting scientific and technological innovation and building a great modern socialist country.
Officials of relevant departments of the SSE and heads of relevant departments and units of CASIC attended the events.