In the morning of May 8, President Lu Wenbin was invited to have an online meeting with Emmanuel Jimenez, Director of the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank.

The two sides briefly reviewed and highly affirmed the past achievements in promoting regional development performance evaluation capacity building around brand cooperation projects such as Asian Evaluation Week and Shanghai International Development Evaluation Training Program (SHIPDET), and fully exchanged and reached a consensus on further strengthening cooperation between the two sides, actively promoting the preparation of Asian Evaluation Week 2023, optimizing and adjusting SHIPDET curriculum design, etc. Preliminary consensus was reached.