This project, by hiring a third-party service provider, provides comprehensive professional services andtraining for the implementation of financial risk sharing mechanisms at all levels of the project.

Request for Expression of Interests Country：People's Republic of China Project Name: IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project Numbers: 9213-CN Financial Risk Sharing Mechanism Project Third-Party Service Institutions Contract Number: GDCS-00 8 The Government of the People's Republic of China has obtained a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to improve food safety management at the national and sub-national levels, and to reduce food safety risks in certain value chains. The project is implemented by the State Administration for Market Regulation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangdong Province, and Shandong Province (Yantai City). As part of the project, Guangdong Province plans to establish a financial risk-sharing mechanism, using $40 million from the Bank loan funds to set up a financial risk compensation fund pool (hereinafter referred to as the "Fund Pool"), aimed at specifically enhancing the quality and safety control levels across the full value chain of agricultural products and pre-cooked food industries such as vegetables, lychee, pigs, and aquatic products in the project area, and addressing the challenges of difficult and expensive financing faced by new types of agricultural operators, rural collective economic organizations, and farmers (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementing Entities"). The project initially focuses on four industries—vegetables, lychee, pigs, and aquatic products—as well as the pre-cooked food industry in five cities: Guangzhou, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing, while also considering other industries. This contract utilizes World Bank loan funds to purchase third-party service institutions for the financial risk-sharing mechanism project (hereinafter referred to as the "Third-Party Service Institutions"), to provide services for the orderly and compliant lending and risk compensation work of cooperating financial institutions,