In this paper, we propose a class of new tailored finite point methods (TFPM) for the numerical solution of a type of convection-diffusionreaction problems in two dimensions. Our finite point method has been tailored based on the local exponential basis functions. Furthermore, our TFPM satisfies the discrete maximum principle automatically. We also study the error estimates of our TFPM. We prove that our TFPM can achieve good accuracy even when the mesh size h ε for some cases without any prior knowledge of the boundary layers. Our numerical examples show the efficiency and reliability of our method.Kellogg [2] studied some one-dimensional problems, they used the method of "exponential fitting" to get the uniformly convergent approximation. But for high dimensional problems, people did not get the uniform convergence results by such technique. Recently, the typical methods for high dimensional problems are proposed to solve such singular perturbation problems based on the refined mesh technique, such as Shishkin meshes [3,14,15,16,20,22], in which people can get the uniform convergence on nonuniform meshes. Melenk et al. also used so-called hp-version finite element method to achieve uniform convergence (cf.[17] and the references in it). For more related work, please refer to the books by Morton [19], Roos, Stynes and Tobiska [21], and the review paper by Stynes [23]. Generally speaking, in those methods for high dimensional problems, one usually needs the finest mesh size h ∼ O(ε) to achieve a satisfied numerical result. Therefore, most of those methods need many degrees of freedom when ε 1, although they are uniformly convergent, especially if they want to have small pointwise errors on all mesh points. For example, by Shishkin meshes, one can get the uniform convergence rate, but they need a prior knowledge of the position of boundary layer (cf. [3,14,15,16,20,22]).Recently, we develop an efficient method, so-called "tailored finite point method ", for the numerical simulation of singular perturbation problems and high frequency wave propagation problems [6,7,8,9,11]. In our work, we proposed a kind of finite point methods which used the exact solutions of the local approximation problems to construct the global approximate solution. Therefore, we can have high accuracy even on the uniform coarse mesh h ε without any prior knowledge of the boundary layers. In [7], we have proposed some finite point schemes for convection-diffusion problems using Bessel functions. In that paper, our schemes also obtained very good approximate solutions on coarse mesh, but those schemes did not satisfy the discrete maximum principle in some cases.In this paper, we propose a class of new tailored finite point methods to solve the problem (1.1)-(1.2) numerically, in which we use the proper exponential functions to construct the approximate solution. These exponential functions are the exact solution of the proper local approximate problems. We prove that these new schemes can always satisfy the discrete maximum principle, we also...