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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: We're very pleased, of course, to be here at the

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Speaker 2: twentieth anniversary of Cities China Conference here in Shanghai, and

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Speaker 2: we have none other than the chair and CEO, Jane Frasier.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having us.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're delighted to have Bloomberg here. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for joining our conference.

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Speaker 2: So what do you hope to get out of this

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Speaker 2: and when talking to all your guests and your clients

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Speaker 2: and to understand a little bit more about the China market,

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Speaker 2: which you know very well. But we're coming out of

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Speaker 2: a bruising trade war. We're not even out of it

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Speaker 2: yet right. Some say it's a truce, not necessarily a

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Speaker 2: lasting piece. What has been your takeaway so far?

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Speaker 1: I think what's interesting this time at this conference is

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Speaker 1: that it's moved away from a China for China story

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Speaker 1: and instead we have had huge interests and a large

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Speaker 1: number of investors and companies coming to China to understand

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Speaker 1: what is happening here, as well as the Chinese companies

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Speaker 1: and investors that are looking much more externally now. So

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Speaker 1: that really feels like a sea change here. That's pretty exciting.

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Speaker 2: How do you serve your clients against the backdrop of

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Speaker 2: two governments that are trying to de risk, if not decouple.

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Speaker 1: I think the recent truth has brought some much needed

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Speaker 1: and welcome stability here. We're in a position now for

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Speaker 1: both sides that wanted to have a period now where

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Speaker 1: we can just we can move ahead and have a

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Speaker 1: more stable relationship between both of them. Is transactional, but

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Speaker 1: it's in both both sides interests. We see our client

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Speaker 1: base navigating this.

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Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, what's your vision for the China as the

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Speaker 2: China market as it folds into your overall restructuring plan

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Speaker 2: as well? You're now chair and CEO, first time that

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Speaker 2: those two rules have been joined in a couple of decades,

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Speaker 2: clear mandate to carry out your vision going forward?

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Speaker 3: What does that look like?

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Speaker 2: When you did exit your consumer banking business here like

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Speaker 2: you did in many markets around the world, you also

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Speaker 2: sold your retail wealth management portfolio to HSBC. You got

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Speaker 2: out of an investment bank JV with Orient Securities, I believe,

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Speaker 3: So City has.

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Speaker 1: Been in China for one hundred and twenty four years.

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Speaker 1: We have a landmark building here in Shanghai. And what

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Speaker 1: we have done is focused our strategy and grow. We

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Speaker 1: are following our international clients around the world.

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Speaker 3: We're seeing them with.

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Speaker 1: Renewed interest and focus in China as we talked about,

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Speaker 1: and then we're seeing the Chinese companies innovating at pace

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Speaker 1: and also looking at expanding internationally. So we've been growing

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Speaker 1: rapidly here with a more focused strategy, and it is

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Speaker 1: the power of clarity and renewed purpose in the firm.

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Speaker 2: Now, before this interview started, you really countered what I

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Speaker 2: said is you're pulling back a little bit from China.

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Speaker 2: That's not at all. You're adding headcount. How Come what

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Speaker 2: are your headcount numbers? When we get headlines that your

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Speaker 2: IT department maybe thirty five hundred jobs are going to

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Speaker 2: be moving elsewhere and this, and that you pulled back

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Speaker 2: from retail three or four years ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're getting the story wrong. Good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I serious.

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Speaker 1: City is on the city is on the front foot.

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Speaker 1: We are innovating, we are growing, We're helping support our clients.

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Speaker 1: Our clients are both building resiliency and they are reinventing

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Speaker 1: themselves with all the technological changes that is no different

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Speaker 1: in China than it is in other parts of the world.

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Speaker 1: So I know this is a firm with clarity, a purpose,

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Speaker 1: we have. I'm excited about the progress we're making, and

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Speaker 1: I see it here on the ground in China. If

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Speaker 1: headwinds that we all know about on consumer spending and

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Speaker 3: That here in China. It's a manufacturing powerhouse. What are

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Speaker 1: Fifty percent of all robotic companies in the world are

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Speaker 1: all Chinese companies expanding internationally. And we're both serving seventy

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Speaker 2: So how does that equate to what the deal flow?

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Speaker 2: You see, who's the head global banking who we talked

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Speaker 2: amount of deal flows going into twenty twenty six, what

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Speaker 2: kind of cross border with China do you see.

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Speaker 1: Look, I think we're seeing new corridors opening up, and

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Speaker 1: seeing the Middle East connecting with Asia. For the GCC,

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Speaker 1: of flows. In the last five years, Brazil's connection into

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Speaker 1: So you know, the world is changing rapidly. It's adding

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Speaker 1: new corridors, it's adding new flows, it's adding new wealth

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Speaker 1: and scale is the name of the game.

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Speaker 2: What will be your strategy with wealth management? You got out,

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Speaker 2: as I said, the retail fortune of your health management

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Speaker 1: Rightw SO City is focused internationally on not on retail banking.

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Speaker 1: We are focused on serving clients who have cross boorder needs.

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Speaker 1: growing internationally. We think of the world's billionaires and wealthy

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Speaker 1: think of investors and corporations we're doing so there's a

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Speaker 3: It's going to be fifty percent of all of the

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Speaker 1: Network households created in the next three years will be

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Speaker 2: Of hiring is going to be needed in this part

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Speaker 2: At a time when we're also seeing Corporate America as

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Speaker 2: they invest heavily into AI, they've had to pull back

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Speaker 3: Have been cut. It's a great question.

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Speaker 1: I think AI is certainly changing a lot of what

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Speaker 1: so you'll be certainly a lot of shift in coding jobs.

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Speaker 1: We've seen that already. Our productivity is up nine percent

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Speaker 3: There's going to be new jobs created too.

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Speaker 1: None of us quite know yet exactly how the timing

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Speaker 1: change ahead of that, but our approaches, we're going to

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the Middle East. I think you just came

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Speaker 2: back from Riard. You're col chair of the US Saudi

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Speaker 2: Biased maybe, but again what do you hope to get

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Speaker 2: and the vision that you just talked about.

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Speaker 1: The growth plans that we have going forward. Because we

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Speaker 1: Let's take India. City is larger in India today. We

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Speaker 3: When I look at Korea, we are aware.

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Speaker 1: I was just that that's another market where we were

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Speaker 1: and we have a very strong position there supporting multinationals

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Speaker 1: becoming more focus on diversification.

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Speaker 3: There is also a focus on reinvention.

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Speaker 1: What we are doing is helping provide the strategic advice.

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Speaker 1: We're helping provide the financing and structuring and arranging that,

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Speaker 1: and we're also helping manage the supply chain reconfiguration. We're

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Speaker 1: helping with the hedging and foreign exchange interest rates. Because

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Speaker 1: volatility is a feature, it's not a bug of this system.

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Speaker 2: Through your restructuring, you had to get rid of the

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Speaker 3: I know you have the wrong story. The city is

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Speaker 2: I only ask because, again, the Russia situation is a

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Speaker 1: We have been winding down, as many many companies have been,

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Speaker 3: It would be good to get that done.

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Speaker 1: But it's not critical to the firm's strategy going forward.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the outlook in the United States right

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Speaker 2: going into the new year and the spectrum of inflation rising.

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Speaker 1: Look, I don't think we're out of the woods yet,

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Speaker 1: and there's a sensor that maybe another.

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Speaker 3: Shoe to drop.

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Speaker 1: It could be in tariff or in the labor market,

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Speaker 1: could be in the asset prices that are quite high

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Speaker 1: in the States. But all of that said, we're quite

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Speaker 1: optimistic about twenty six. The challenge for the FED right

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Speaker 1: But as we look further out into next year, I

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Speaker 1: think the resiliency of the corporate balance sheets, the strength

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Speaker 2: We're a couple of months out now from when we

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Speaker 1: You know, our balance sheet is pristine, but I think

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Speaker 1: part of that is because it's very heavily our investment grade.

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Speaker 1: On the corporate side, we're over eighty percent investment great globally,

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Speaker 3: Of the economy on the balance sheet.

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Speaker 1: All of that said, we haven't seen a thing that

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Speaker 1: fiscally responsible. Companies have been building up some more cash,

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Speaker 1: most of them for investment, and they're you know, they're acting.

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Speaker 3: From a position of strength.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on the labor market, will keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on some of the areas of mid tier

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Speaker 1: as we're concerned that second third order effects the banks,

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Speaker 2: Are you concerned by what some say maybe bubble forming

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Speaker 2: how much of a bubble are overheating.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if we're just in with a lot

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Speaker 1: saying that there are some real pockets of let's call

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Speaker 1: it the British understatement, frothiness in the market. It's more

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Speaker 1: be in danger of overbuilding, But no one's feeling that

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Speaker 1: on that one, certainly some pockets of frothiness there on

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Speaker 1: the valuations, but the core infrastructure investments are important, and

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Speaker 1: as we're seeing in our own bank, and I think

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Speaker 1: many companies are, we'll start getting some of the productivity

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Speaker 1: benefits coming through. But the scale, the scale and the

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Speaker 1: pace of investment is unprecedented, that.

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Speaker 3: Is for sure.

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Speaker 2: Jane Frazer, thanks so much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Hope you don't mind me playing the devil's advocate. I

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Speaker 2: have the story straight now. Thanks. Thanks, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Very much for having us here. Thank you CHININGA conference.

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Speaker 2: The twentieth anniversary of that conference here in Shanghai,