Changing the name of Beijing International Trade Fair to ＂speed up＂ and upgrading to promote the high-level cooperation and development of international service trade
Cctv news(Reporter Liu Liang): the State Council Press Office held a press conference on May 22nd. Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Bingnan, Vice Mayor of Beijing Municipal People’s Government wang hong, Director of Service Trade and Business Services Department of Ministry of Commerce Xian Guoyi and Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce Yan Ligang introduced the development of China’s service trade and China International Fair for Trade in Services in 2019, and answered questions from reporters.
Wang Bingnan introduced at the meeting that the Beijing International Trade Fair will be held in Beijing from May 28th to June 1st. The theme of this year’s Beijing International Trade Fair is "Openness, Innovation, Wisdom and Integration". Enterprises and institutions from 130 countries and regions will hold exhibitions and discuss cooperation in 12 service trade fields. This year’s Beijing International Fair has four characteristics:
One isPositioning is more accurate. Giving priority to the development of service trade is an important measure to promote China’s economic transformation and upgrading and high-quality development. Facing the new situation and new tasks, it will promote the positioning of Beijing International Trade Fair. Beijing International Trade Fair is positioned as a "service trade exhibition with global influence". Focusing on this new orientation, the China (Beijing) International Service Trade Fair will be renamed as China International Fair for Trade in Services from this session. After the renaming, the Beijing International Trade Fair will devote itself to building brands, expanding its influence and leading the innovative development of global and China service trade.
The second isFaster frequency. Starting from this year, the Beijing International Trade Fair will be adjusted from biennial to annual, which is rare in large-scale foreign-related mechanism exhibitions other than China International Import Expo and ASEAN Expo.
The third isOn a larger scale. This year, the exhibition area of Beijing International Trade Fair has greatly increased from 50,000 square meters in the past to 150,000 square meters. It is also the first time to try to set up a number of sub-venues, and fully incorporate Beijing’s important landmarks and functional facilities such as CBD, Forbidden City and Financial Street into the overall resources of Beijing International Trade Fair, fully demonstrating the development characteristics and broad space of Beijing’s service industry and service trade.
The fourth isThe level of internationalization is higher. According to the new orientation of "global influence", the Beijing International Fair has invited a wide range of domestic and foreign political and business representatives and merchants to participate in the exhibition, which has received positive response from the international community. The number of countries and regions participating in the Beijing International Fair has greatly increased compared with the previous year, with broad international representation. A total of 21 international organizations and 130 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, among which countries and regions with the top 30 service trade volume in the world and countries that have signed service trade cooperation agreements with China will participate in the exhibition. Thailand will be the guest country of this Beijing International Fair.
Wang hong introduced the progress of Beijing’s preparations. She said that the 2019 Beijing International Trade Fair will focus onScience and technology, culture, health, businessAnd other service fields, and strive to play an active role in leading the global service industry and service trade in frontier concepts, advanced technologies, innovations and industry standards.
The conference adopted "One master and many assistants."Way, set up a main venue and 10 sub-venues, hold about 150,000 square meters of exhibitions and 236 forum meetings, including more than 100 forum meetings such as global service trade summit, international forums, industry conferences and special forums, and more than 100 negotiation and trading activities such as country promotion, provincial and municipal promotion and industry negotiation.
The main venue is located in the National Convention Center and the surrounding Olympic Celebration Square and Beijing International Convention Center, and the sub-venues are located in Wangfujing Commercial Street in Dongcheng, Financial Street in Xicheng, CBD in Chaoyang, Zhongguancun in Haidian, Shougang Park in Shijingshan, Beijing City Sub-center in Tongzhou, Huitian District in Changping, Jing ‘anzhuang Pavilion in China International Exhibition Center, Shunyi New Pavilion and Palace Museum.
Wang hong said that up to now, the preparations for this Beijing International Fair are progressing smoothly. Ninety-eight of the 131 countries that signed the "One Belt, One Road" cooperation document with China participated in the exhibition.
Thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, five cities with separate plans and Shenyang participated in the exhibition, and Fujian Province was the guest province of this Beijing International Fair.
It has been confirmed that three former foreign politicians, 12 heads of international organizations and foreign ministerial guests attended the meeting, and one academician of the European Academy of Sciences, four academicians of the China Academy of Engineering, two academicians of the China Academy of Sciences and more than 300 well-known experts, scholars and entrepreneurs attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
At present, a total of 7,998 enterprises and institutions participated in the exhibition, including 1,690 exhibitors and 6,308 participants. Among these enterprises, there are 614 multinational companies and well-known enterprises in the industry and 63 Fortune 500 companies. In addition, there will be 36,000 merchants and representatives, more than 150 media and more than 500 media reporters.
The 2019 Beijing International Trade Fair is about to kick off, and we look forward to this wonderful service trade event to promote high-level cooperation and development of international service trade.