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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

China Consumer discretionary / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Remarkable recovery vs 4Q22, improving spending power and excellent sustainability.</li><li>We believe the data points during the 2023 Chinese New Year are better than our expectation and meaningfully encouraging for the consumer sector, because: 1) the base was high in 2022, as the number of COVID-19 cases were very limited during Jan-Feb 2022 and the number of passenger journeys already grew by 31% YoY</li><li>2) the improvement is significant vs 4Q22, supported by the 89%/ 73% recovery rate of domestic tourism volume/ spending during this CNY, better than 61%/ 44% in the 10-1 holidays and any level in the entire 2022 year,</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Remarkable recovery vs 4Q22, improving spending power and excellent sustainability.We believe the data points during the 2023 Chinese New Year are better than our expectation and meaningfully encouraging for the consumer sector, because: 1) the base was high in 2022, as the number of COVID-19 cases were very limited during Jan-Feb 2022 and the number of passenger journeys already grew by 31% YoY2) the improvement is significant vs 4Q22, supported by the 89%/ 73% recovery rate of domestic tourism volume/ spending during this CNY, better than 61%/ 44% in the 10-1 holidays and any level in the entire 2022 year,Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Consumer Sector – Strong recovery and sustainability during CNY