On the evening of September 28, 2018, Chairman Zhu Zhangguanran of Cathay Group was invited to attend the 69th anniversary National Day reception in the Great Hall of the People. The National Day reception banquet was jointly organized by the General Office of the CPPCC, the United Front Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Overseas Chinese Office of the State Council, the Hong Kong and Macao Office of the State Council and the Taiwan Office of the State Council. The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Wang Yang, Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and other party and state leaders gathered with old and new friends from home and abroad to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The reception was presided over by Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Committee on Foreign Affairs. Some of them were members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretaries of the Secretariat, leading comrades of the National People's Congress, the State Council and the CPPCC.