On October 19, 2023, CRRC and MTR Corporation Limited signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Sun Yongcai, Chairman of CRRC, held a discussion with Jin Zepei, Chief Executive Officer of MTR Corporation, and jointly witnessed the signing ceremony. Wei Mingde, independent director of CRRC, also attended the discussion and signing ceremony. Representatives of both parties, CRRC Vice President Yu Weiping and MTR Corporation Mainland Business Director Huang Kunwei, signed the agreement, marking a new level of cooperation between the two parties.

Sun Yongcai welcomed the visit of Jin Zepei and his delegation, and expressed his gratitude to the MTR Corporation for its continued trust and support to CRRC. He pointed out that CRRC is accelerating the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative and the national dual-carbon strategy requirements, fully grasping the development trends of digitalization, lightweight, green, intelligent, modular and platform, and continuing to promote urban rail transit equipment technical standards System. CRRC will give full play to its advantages in technological innovation, talent, and industrial chain, and continue to create greater value for its partners with full life cycle system solutions.

Jin Zepei said that CRRC and the MTR Corporation have always maintained a close cooperative relationship. The cooperation between the two parties has a solid foundation and broad areas of cooperation. He hopes that in the future, both parties can further strengthen cooperation in technical maintenance, standard formulation and life cycle management to achieve a mutually beneficial and win-win situation and jointly promote the sustainable development of the railway industry.

Participants in the symposium included heads of relevant departments and subsidiaries of CRRC headquarters, relevant personnel responsible for the mainland business of the MTR Corporation, as well as relevant leaders and responsible comrades of the Dalian Municipal Government and relevant municipal units. Editor/GaoLiMei