On the afternoon of December 12, Shanghai International Group (SIG) held the kick-off meeting on budget work for 2020 and final account work for 2019 in association with three financial enterprises: Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB), Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank (SRCB) and Guotai Junan Securities. Guan Wei, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SIG, hosted the meeting. Ye Jinsong, Deputy Director General of the Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SHSASAC), attended the meeting alongside leaders of the Office of Financial Evaluation, the Office of Financial Enterprise Evaluation and the Office of Audit and Supervision, relevant staff members of the Department of Financial Management and the Department of Capital Operation of SIG, as well as leaders in charge and department heads of the three financial enterprises.

At the meeting, Guan noted that SHSASAC released the Plan for SIG Performing the Shareholder's Rights and Responsibilities for Invested Enterprises (HGZWCQ [2018] No. 402) at the end of last year, to transfer the rights and responsibilities of deliberating on the three financial enterprises' budgets and final accounts from SHSASAC to SIG. This year SIG performed the responsibility of prior deliberation on the enterprises' budgets and final accounts for the first time, to implement the requirements of Document No. 402 released by SHSASAC and promote the pilot work of SIG's financial holding companies, and gradually improve the control processes on three enterprises. The enterprises' leaders in charge pledged to support SIG in performing the shareholder's rights and responsibilities, and agreed to the budget and final account work plan. The attendees exchanged ideas on the time, process, content and other issues of budget and final account submission.

Ye raised expectations and requirements for the budget and final account work. Firstly, SIG and the three financial enterprises should strengthen communication, examine the rationality of budgets and the authenticity and integrity of final accounts, and finish the budget and final account work perfectly and punctually; secondly, the three financial enterprises' next-year budgets should reflect the goal of quality improvement and benefit increase, establish the awareness of main responsibility and primary business, and focus on the strategic goal of building Shanghai International Financial Center; lastly, the three financial enterprises should further improve the capability of "five-in-one" financial control, seize development and investment opportunities on the basis of effectively preventing risks, improve the quality and benefit of primary business, and jointly promote the building of Shanghai International Financial Center.