Senior representatives from the Xiamen National Accounting Institute (XNAI) met Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) CEO Zhongjing Wang and his team at the MCDF Secretariat in Beijing on 12 August. They discussed strengthening MCDF-XNAI knowledge collaboration to promote high-quality connectivity infrastructure investment in developing countries.
The XNAI delegation comprised Ms. Li Xing, Party Secretary, Mr. Zhixuan Wang, Director of the Research Center for Belt and Road Financial and Economic Development (RCBRFED), Mr. Haijian Liang, Head of International Partnership and Capacity Development Program, and Mr. Zhouyun Wu, Coordinator for Multilateral Development Banks, RCBRFED.
Ms. Xing shared XNAI’s interest in enhancing its institutional capacity building function by leveraging its financial talent training, think tank function, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research, and international platforms connected with China’s Finance Ministry. She said MCDF is a key partner for jointly promoting the application of international standards for development across these mechanisms.
CEO Wang thanked Ms. Xing and colleagues for XNAI’s collaboration with MCDF on information and knowledge-sharing activities. This includes XNAI’s role as a cohost of the annual Asia-Pacific Integrity and Compliance Forum, together with International Financial Institution (IFI) and research partners. Building on the successful co-organization of the second and third forum in 2024 and 2025, respectively, the fourth forum will be held in Beijing on 8-10 September.
“Anticorruption, antifraud, integrity, and compliance underpin high-quality connectivity infrastructure investment,” said CEO Wang. “Deepening MCDF-XNAI cooperation to promote the application of IFI’s environmental and social standards and good practices in connectivity projects’ design and implementation can serve as a model for future cooperation with partners in developing countries.”
The forthcoming launch and operations of the MCDF Learning Center at XNAI, the establishment of a potential knowledge-sharing network, and long-term training opportunities were discussed. The focus was on ensuring MCDF and XNAI’s partnership provides concrete and practical capacity building for developing countries based on IFI standards and good practices.
Procurement was identified as a particularly important topic given its linkage to many integrity cases and is one that could be addressed together with ESG issues as mutually reinforcing areas of standards.
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