Countdown For The Second Annual Fair: Over 3000 Companies Participating In The Exhibition

On the 29 day, the Ministry of Commerce held a briefing for Chinese and foreign media. Wang Bingnan, deputy director of the China International Import Fair Organizing Committee and vice minister of Commerce, announced that President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and related activities of the second China International Import fair and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum held in Shanghai in November 5th and deliver keynote speeches.

Wang Bingnan said that the preparations for the second China International Import fair, the national exhibition, the enterprise exhibition and the second Hongqiao International Economic Forum have been basically completed. With a total exhibition area of 30000 square meters, the national exhibition focuses on the development achievements, business environment and characteristic industries of each country. A total of 64 countries (including China) and 3 international organizations participated in the exhibition. The 15 host countries were Kampuchea, Czech, France, Greece, India, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Peru, Russia, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan.

The number of exhibitors exceeds the first session.

Wang Bingnan said that hosting the China International Import fair is a major policy decision made by China to promote a new round of high level opening up. It is a major initiative for China to open the market to the world actively, helping to promote the high quality development of our economy and better meet the needs of people's beautiful life.

The daily economic news reporter learned from the briefing that the scale of this Expo is more than the first. Wang Bingnan introduced that the total area of the first enterprise exhibition and national exhibition of the Expo was 300000 square meters, and the second Import Expo reached 360000 square meters, of which the enterprise exhibition increased from 270000 square meters to 330000 square meters, and the two expansion of the exhibition area is still "one exhibition is hard to find". The number of participating countries and regions, international organizations and exhibitors exceeded that of the first session.

"The total exhibition area of the enterprise exhibition area is 330 thousand square meters, exhibitors from various countries display goods, technology and services to achieve" buy the world, benefit the world ". Covering five sectors, including equipment, consumption, food, health and service, and seven exhibition areas, more than 3000 enterprises from more than 150 countries and regions participated in the exhibition. " Wang Bingnan said.

Reporters found that according to the Ministry of Commerce statistics, the first Import Expo business exhibition set up seven exhibition areas, the exhibition area of 270 thousand square meters, from 151 countries and regions 3617 enterprises participating. The amount of on-site intentional transaction is USD 57.83 billion.

Zhang Jianping, deputy director of the academic committee of the international trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told reporters in the daily economic news that China's economic development to the present stage, in the process of consumption transformation and upgrading to stimulate economic growth, encouraging imports is a very important aspect. "The higher the level of economic development of a country, the stronger the domestic consumption demand. Expanding imports will help to use global resources to meet the needs of the transformation and upgrading of domestic consumption. "

"At the same time, under the background of counter globalization and the rise of trade protectionism, China's initiative to open wider to the outside world and share the fruits of the domestic market and reform and opening up with the rest of the world has also provided tremendous opportunities for global enterprises." Zhang Jianping said.

There are over 300 supporting activities during the exhibition.

The import Fair has not only set up a high level platform for the economic and trade cooperation among enterprises around the world, but also an international "big stage" for ideological and cultural exchanges.

Wang Bingnan said that during the exhibition, there were more than 300 supporting activities to promote economic and cultural exchanges at home and abroad. More than 140 exchanges and exhibitions of intangible cultural heritage and "Chinese time honored brands" will be held in 18 provinces and cities. The Import Expo integrates exhibition, trade, forum, humanities, diplomacy and other activities, and the comprehensive spillover effect will continue to enlarge.

At the same time, for the Hongqiao International Economic Forum, which has a very high degree of concern, Wang Bingnan said that the Hongqiao international economic forum aims to build a high-end dialogue platform for the international business and business community to discuss the major frontier issues of the world economy. It is an international public Communists to promote openness and cooperation. The theme of the second Hongqiao International Economic Forum is "open innovation, win-win cooperation". It is composed of the main forum of the opening ceremony and five sub forums.

Wang Bingnan pointed out that the five sub forum topics were "openness, rules and business environment", "artificial intelligence and innovation development", "WTO reform and free trade agreement", "digital era and e-commerce innovation and development", "70 years of China's development and destiny of mankind". "At that time, it is expected that more than 4000 representatives of political, business and international organizations from various countries and regions will attend the conference."

Prior to this, Chen Chao, deputy director of the Department of international economic and trade relations of the Ministry of Commerce, said at the second interpretation of the Hongqiao international economic forum that 1500 guests will be invited to the opening ceremony in the morning of November 5th, and 800 guests will be invited to the forum every afternoon. At that time, it is expected that more than 50 heavyweight political and business scholars, including WTO director general azewido, UNCTAD Secretary General Kitui, aiib president Jin Liqun and global top 500 enterprise leaders, will be the speakers of the forum.