The 7th China International Import Expo will start releasing opening sections continuously – Xinhuanet

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, 23 October Topic: The 7th China International Import Expo will continue to issue open sections

Xinhua News Agency reporters Xie Xiyao and Zhou Rui

Adhering to the theme “New Era, Shared Future”, the 7th China International Import Expo will be held in Shanghai from November 5th to 10th. The State Council Information Office held a press conference on 23 October to prepare for the introduction of the CIIE and to respond to external concerns.

Tang Wenhong, Deputy Minister of Commerce, said that all preparatory work has basically been completed The total exhibition area will exceed 420,000 square meters at the same time The Hongqiao International Economic Forum will hold a main forum and 19 sub -forums.

Since it was first held in 2018, the CIIE has been working as the “big four platforms” of international procurement, investment promotion, people-to-people exchanges, and open cooperation, becoming a a window to build a new development pattern, a platform to promote high-level openness, and an international public product shared globally. According to Tang Wenhong, this CIIE will focus closely on the above aspects to further improve efficiency.

Regarding the further development of the function of the window for building a new development pattern, focusing on the development of new productive forces, it is worth looking forward to many “firsts” and “launches”.

The technical equipment exhibition area focuses on the three main subjects of science and technology, industry and environmental protection. Update the field of artificial intelligence.

The innovation incentive area has been updated to create an innovation incentive area, focusing on the four main tracks of digital, green and low-carbon economy, life sciences, and manufacturing technology for the first time more in history.

In addition, this CIIE will continue to create the world’s first launch site for new products, the first choice for innovative technologies, and the first place for innovative services, which ‘ exhibit more than 400 representative new products, new technologies and services, and organize 39 government trade organizations and 4 business affairs.

Continuing with the ultra-large scale, the role of promoting high-level open platforms will be further used.

According to reports, this CIIE National Exhibition will continue to build an important platform for countries to showcase their broad image and opportunities in the field of trade and investment. 77 countries and international organizations are participating in the presentation. France, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and Uzbekistan will be the host countries.

With the theme of “Promoting Chinese Style Innovation and Sharing the World’s Development and Prosperity”, the China Pavilion will focus on showcasing the latest achievements in promoting Chinese style innovation and encouraging a high degree of openness to the outside world.

The enterprise exhibition will continue to maintain a large scale of more than 360,000 square meters, with a total of 3,496 exhibitors from 129 countries and regions participating The number of countries (regions) and the number of enterprises is exceed the previous edition, and the The number of exhibitors in the world’s top 500 and business-leading enterprises has reached 297 households, reaching the highest level, with 186 companies and institutions become “full-time students” for the seventh time.

Providing more than 120 booths free of charge to exhibitors from least developed countries, and holding sub-forums on sustainable development in the global South and China-Africa cooperation will strengthen… this CIIE more international public goods and services that are shared with the world.

“We will support 37 most developed countries to participate in national exhibitions and enterprise exhibitions, expand the African product range, help expand unilateral opening up to the most developed countries, and implement basic idea of ​​inclusion with practical actions. “.

With the theme “Adhering to high-level openness and promoting inclusive economic globalization”, this Hongqiao Forum will release the “World Openness Report 2024” and the latest Global Openness Index to recommend and provide recommendations for building an open world economy. There were approximately 110 different support activities including policy interpretation, docking and signing, etc.; the exhibition area of ​​cultural exchange activities exceeded 32,000 square meters, which was also the largest in history.

“Continue to release the benefits of opening up and strive to create a promotion platform for the world to share China’s new development and new opportunities.” published services, with a total of The planned trade volume exceeds 420 billion US dollars; more than 1,130 foreign-funded enterprises and investment promotion organizations have been organized to conduct detailed docking in various locations, and many of exhibitors have opened new stores, new factories, and new R&D centers in China.

Tang Wenhong said that this CIIE will rely on huge market advantages in China to continue to promote “exhibitions to products” and “exhibitors to investors”, and continue to write the “story of CIIE” .