The Asian Development Bank (ADB) held a training session on anti-corruption and integrity policies for Chinese enterprises via video link on April 28. The meeting focused on the ADB's polices and cases related to bidding and procurement as well as its anti-corruption and integrity policies. The training aimed to help Chinese enterprises familiarize themselves with the ADB's anti-corruption and integrity policies and rules of bidding and procurement and strengthen their anticorruption and integrity systems to better participate in the construction of the ADB-financed projects.

Cheng Zhijun, Director-General of the Department of International Economic and Financial Cooperation of China's Ministry of Finance (MOF), Zhu Xiaolei, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Policies, Laws and Regulations of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and ADB officials, including the head of the Office of Anticorruption and Integrity, Director General of Department of Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management,  Vice-president of Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department (PPFD), and Director General of ADB's East Asia Department, attended and delivered speeches at the meeting. Representatives from the discipline inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China in the MOF, the MOF's Department of Asset Management, and Bureau of Supervision and Evaluation participated in the meeting.

Chen noted that China and the ADB have maintained for long good partnership in anti-corruption and integrity, adding that he hopes the two sides can take the opportunity to continue deepening dialogue and exchanges. He said he expects that with the guidance of the ADB's relevant departments, Chinese enterprises will become more familiar with international bidding and anti-corruption policies and rules, better participate in cooperation in relevant projects, build more influential and high-quality projects, and make positive contributions to poverty reduction and development in the Asia-Pacific region.

The training was warmly welcomed by representatives of Chinese enterprises. The 1,500 trainees came from 11 central State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and over 300 local SOEs. SOE representatives, including those from the China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Railway Group Limited, China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, China Communications Construction Company Limited, and POWERCHINA International Group, made key speeches at the meeting.