Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng met Brian David Li Man-bun, co-chief executive officer of the Bank of East Asia Ltd, in Shanghai yesterday. Both Shanghai and Hong Kong are international financial centers with wide cooperative prospects, and “we welcome the Bank of East Asia to push forward cooperation in the financial sector and share the opportunities in the economic development of the nation,” Gong said. The Bank of East Asia is optimistic about Shanghai’s economic development, Li responded, adding that the bank wishes to continue to provide service for the national strategy of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region, and actively push forward the cooperation between Shanghai and Hong Kong by providing better financial services.