China Exim Bank signs cooperation agreements at Financial Street Forum

Policy-bank deal signings at a forum session are a recurring signal of where state-directed cross-border financing is heading, so the substance lies less in the documents themselves than in the Belt and Road framing around them. The partners involved span Chinese and foreign counterparties, which points to continued institutional engagement in infrastructure and trade-linked lending. Whether these agreements translate into disclosed project pipelines, and whether the Belt and Road label keeps anchoring Chinese export-import finance through the 2026 forum cycle, is the open question worth watching.