Etihad Credit score Insurance coverage (ECI), UAE’s federal export credit score firm, engaged with key stakeholders and took half in discussions throughout its go to to China as a part of a high-level UAE Commerce Mission and Delegation led by His Highness Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Courtroom for Improvement and Fallen Heroes’ Affairs.
The UAE delegation attended a number of landmark occasions, together with the eighth China Worldwide Import Expo (CIIE), the China-UAE Financial & Commerce Cooperation Promotion Convention, and AIM China Chapter 2025, underscoring the rising strategic and financial ties between the 2 nations. Throughout its participation at CIIE, ECI showcased its choices at its sales space, offering delegates and companies with insights into its complete commerce credit score insurance coverage options, market intelligence capabilities, and risk-mitigation companies.
At China-UAE Financial & Commerce Cooperation Promotion Convention, H.E. Raja Al Mazrouei, Chief Government Officer of ECI, took half in a panel dialogue titled ‘Logistics, Commerce, and Superior Manufacturing,’ highlighting the UAE’s place as a strategic gateway for international commerce.
The session highlighted ECI’s position as a catalyst for progress, offering monetary safety, market intelligence, and risk-mitigation instruments that allow UAE exporters to increase confidently throughout worldwide markets. H.E. Raja emphasised that ECI is ready to join SMEs to a world community of greater than 400 million corporations, serving to them establish patrons, suppliers, and new commerce alternatives.
H.E. Al Mazrouei additional commented on commerce insurance coverage and export credit score evolving to strengthen UAE–China cooperation, particularly as extra corporations from either side enterprise into co-manufacturing and industrial initiatives.
Throughout the ‘Capital Stream in a New Multipolar World’ panel, organized as a part of the AIM Congress China Chapter 2025, H.E. Raja mentioned how international capital dynamics and industrial innovation are redefining worldwide commerce. The dialogue additionally underscored ECI’s dedication to empowering SMEs, strengthening provide chain resilience, and advancing sustainable commerce in alignment with the UAE 2031 imaginative and prescient’ – which goals to develop the nation’s non-oil exports to AED 800 billion.
“SMEs symbolize over 94 per cent of UAE enterprises, forming the spine of our economic system, a significant supply of employment, and advancing financial variety. Initiatives comparable to Xport Xponential have already mobilised AED 174 million in SME funding. By empowering SMEs, we strengthen home worth chains and appeal to enterprise capital and overseas direct funding (FDI) into high-impact, productive sectors,” H.E. Raja stated.
China stays one of many UAE’s most important buying and selling companions, with bilateral cooperation strengthened by means of strategic frameworks such because the UAE-China Complete Financial Partnership Settlement (CEPA). ECI has performed a major position in facilitating UAE-China commerce by supporting corporations getting into or increasing into the Chinese language market, enabling joint ventures, and partnering with Chinese language monetary establishments and export credit score businesses, together with Sinosure. These efforts guarantee resilient, safe, and sustainable commerce and funding flows between the 2 nations.