On 6 June, Stewart Gorman, Consul of Trade and Investment Office of British Embassy, and Yang Haixia, Trade and Investment Officer of British Embassy, visited CCYIA together. Zheng Weihang, Secretary General and EVP of CCYIA, received the consul.

During this meeting, the two parties carried out in-depth discussion on cooperation in the 12th China Cruise Shipping Conference which will be held from 5 to 7 November this year in Sanya, Haihan province. Both parties reached a consensus and fully affirmed the development prospects of China's cruise construction industry. They hoped to work together to make China’s shipbuilding bigger and stronge

According to the British side, The Embassy will organise a British delegation to attend the CCS12 conference; invite a number of high-tech enterprises engaging in cruise construction to thoroughly participate in the Cruise Construction Forum in the hope of exchanging experience with Chinese enterprises engaged in cruise manufacture and repair; organize relevant British enterprises in the cruise industry chain to participate in the Expo for demonstration and communication.