On December 19, Professor Chi Fulin, President of CIRD and President of Hainan Institute for Free Trade Port Studies, held a working meeting with Professor Yu Young-bong, President of the Jeju Institute. Prior to the meeting, President Yu Young-bong of the Jeju Institute and his delegation visited the CIRD’s History Museum. The two sides conducted in-depth exchanges on pragmatically advancing cooperation between the two institutes and promoting stronger exchanges between the Hainan Free Trade Port and Jeju Special Self-Governing Province of the Republic of Korea.

Following the meeting, President Chi Fulin and President Yu Young-bong jointly signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Deepening Cooperation (2026–2028) between the CIRD and the Jeju Institute.

Participants included Kang Chang-min, Vice President of the Jeju Institute; Jung Ji-hyung, Research Committee Member of the Jeju Institute; Yang Zishuai, Researcher of Research Planning & Strategy Division, the Jeju Institute; Miao Shubin, Executive President of CIRD; Yin Zhongyi, Advisor to the President of CIRD; Long Xiaoling, Vice President and Director of the Office of CIRD; Gao Lijun, Assistant to the President of CIRD; Li Chun, Director of CIRD-GRANDALL Center of FTP Law Studies; Guo Da, Executive President of Hainan Institute for Free Trade Port Studies; Guo Wenqin, Vice President of Hainan Institute for Free Trade Port Studies; Wang Hongsen, Secretary-General of Hainan Institute for Free Trade Port Studies; Lin Fen, Project Assistant of Center for International Cooperation of Hainan Institute for Free Trade Port Studies.