China Civil Aviation Network correspondent Wang Jing reported: On November 3, 2021, Zhejiang Changlong Airlines Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the headquarters building of Changlong Airlines. Bao Lingjie, Vice President of Zhejiang Branch and President of Hangzhou Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Wei Yang, Fang Xiao and Li Xin, Vice Presidents of Hangzhou Branch, Liu Qihong, Chairman of Zhejiang Changlong Airlines, Liu Yi, President of Zhejiang Changlong Airlines, Gao Yingzhan, Secretary of the Party Committee, Zhang Hongzhi, Executive President of Zhejiang Branch, and other leaders attended the ceremony, and Li Xin, Vice President of Hangzhou Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Gao Yingzhan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Changlong Airlines, signed the agreement on behalf of both sides.
According to the agreement, ICBC Hangzhou Branch will provide Zhejiang Changlong Airlines with an intentional credit of RMB 50 billion, tailor-made multi-level and all-round financial services such as financing, settlement, wealth management and information consultation. The two sides will continue to expand aircraft leasing and other businesses, support Changlong Airlines to carry out industrial mergers and acquisitions, and deepen business cooperation in many fields. Provide differentiated and competitive overall solutions in international business cooperation to accelerate the pace of internationalization of Changlong Airlines.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Branch is the flagship city branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Co., Ltd., and is also the industry-leading city bank of commercial bank in Zhejiang Province in terms of deposit scale, number of customers served and comprehensive competitiveness. As of the end of 2020, the main operating indicators of the Hangzhou branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China continued to lead the Hangzhou industry, while the non-performing loans continued to "double down", and various risks were effectively prevented and controlled. It ranked first in the evaluation of the business performance and business development of branches directly under the country and provincial capital cities in the system for three consecutive years. In recent years, it has won dozens of honors at or above the provincial and ministerial levels such as "National Civilized Unit", "National Financial May Day Labor Award", "National Excellent Unit for Enterprise Culture Construction", "National Advanced Unit for Ideological and Political Work in the Financial System", "Top Ten Units for the Construction of Professional Ethics of Employees in the National Financial System", etc.
Zhejiang Changlong Airlines is the only local passenger and cargo integrated transport airline in Zhejiang, and the province focuses on cultivating "eagle enterprises" and leading enterprises in the aviation field. At present, the company has entered the ranks of medium and large airlines, with a fleet size of 61 aircraft (65 by the end of 2021), and by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the company's fleet size will exceed 100, entering the ranks of large airlines. Based in Zhejiang, facing the whole country and flying to the world, Changlong Airlines has set up three branches in Xi'an, Chengdu and Guangzhou, namely the northwest, southwest and central and southern regions, to build a development pattern of "one main and two wings" in the province, "east, west, south and north" in China, and connecting and radiating countries along the "Belt and Road". A total of nearly 500 domestic and foreign routes have been opened, including nearly 100 solo routes in Zhejiang, and more than 230 routes for the elderly and young. Changlong Airlines actively assumes social responsibility and has won more than 70 honors such as the National Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation, the National Youth Civilization Number, the National Transportation System, the Advanced Collective and Individual in Zhejiang Province to Fight the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic, the Outstanding Contribution Award for Poverty Alleviation cooperation in the East and West of Zhejiang Province, and the "Six Consecutive Champions" of local outstanding contribution enterprises. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Zhejiang Changlong Airlines will closely focus on the construction of platform bases such as the main aviation operation base, and make every effort to build a "trinity" of aviation upstream and downstream industry chains of air transport, aviation-related manufacturing and aviation services, and create an aviation ecosystem.
As the official partner of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, Zhejiang Changlong Airlines and ICBC will take this signing as an opportunity to integrate their own resources in service, technology, and brand, work together to promote Asian Games services, create a model of bank-enterprise cooperation, and make new and greater contributions to the high-quality development of Zhejiang and the construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone.