On September 17, the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo grandly opened at Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center in Guangxi. As a financial institution that has deeply participated in the ASEAN Expo for consecutive years, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) established an exhibition area under the theme "Digital and Smart ICBC, Smart Connection to the World," comprehensively showcasing ICBC's innovative achievements in leveraging its global network advantages and high-level cross-border financial services to facilitate steady and sustained China-ASEAN economic and trade cooperation and promote coordinated regional economic development.

Entering the V2 area of the Financial Services Exhibition Zone in Hall B1 of Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, visitors are greeted by ICBC's exhibition hall. Giant LED screens and interactive touchscreen displays showcase the excellence of ICBC Guangxi Branch and ICBC's ASEAN institutions, vividly presenting ICBC's deep cultivation in ASEAN markets and its comprehensive financial service solutions of "financing, intelligence integration, technology integration, and connectivity," providing full-scale financial services for the sustainable development of the ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan, South Korea) industrial and supply chains.

ICBC's exhibition hall integrates dynamic videos, distinctive product displays, and interactive experiences to create a technology-rich viewing experience: the humanoid robot "Gong Xiaogui" serves as an intelligent guide and consultation expert, providing real-time answers to professional questions about foreign exchange policies and cross-border finance; a quadruped robot dog acts as an intelligent guide, leading visitors through the tour; visitors can experience the "AIGC Postcard" function on-site to generate personalized souvenirs. The exhibition hall also features rich interactive segments where visitors can deepen their understanding of ICBC's financial products and services through participating in quiz challenges, product experiences, and other engaging activities.

ICBC actively supports Guangxi's construction of a financial opening gateway facing ASEAN, actively serving Guangxi enterprises' "going global" and foreign enterprises' "entering Guangxi." Since the beginning of this year, ICBC has provided nearly 29 billion yuan in domestic and foreign currency financing to autonomous region's foreign trade and investment enterprises, achieving nearly 500 billion yuan in cross-border RMB settlement volume, representing a 40% year-on-year increase. The bank pioneered the landing of Guangxi's first cross-border multinational corporation integrated domestic and foreign currency fund pool netting settlement and innovative businesses such as bank guarantee-backed external guarantee internal loan project loans. ICBC actively supports the landing of the China-Vietnam cross-border QR code connectivity project in Guangxi, fully promoting account opening, process optimization, scenario construction, and application launch.

In September last year, the Belt and Road Inter-Bank Cooperation Mechanism (BRBR mechanism) led by ICBC signed a cooperation memorandum of understanding with the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, making Guangxi the first provincial-level administrative region to establish deep cooperative relations with the BRBR mechanism. Since establishing deep cooperation, the BRBR mechanism has successively held multiple events in Guangxi, including international syndicated loan business seminars and the 2025 China-ASEAN Financial Exchange Conference, and released the "BRBR Mechanism Action Plan for Strengthening International Syndicated Loan Cooperation," proposing the establishment of a BRBR syndicated project cooperation and mutual learning mechanism. This successfully attracted multiple new members from ASEAN and Northeast Asia (10+3) regions to join, creating a multilateral cooperation model of mutual benefit and win-win results in the Belt and Road and ASEAN regions.

ICBC will continue to deepen cross-border financial innovation, promote deep integration of finance with regional economy, and contribute greater strength to high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and building a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.