Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6 Special article: Extensive learning, joint progress, openness and sharing—the six-year CIIE has allowed win-win cooperation to benefit the world
Xinhua News Agency reporters Su Liang, Zhang Dailei and Du Jing
It’s the golden autumn season again, and the Sixth China International Import Expo will arrive as scheduled on the 5th. At the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai), which is shaped like a “four-leaf clover”, guests from 154 countries, regions and international organizations gathered at the exhibition. More than 3,400 companies participated in the exhibition and nearly 410,000 professional visitors registered.
The CIIE is personally planned, deployed and promoted by President Xi Jinping. Talking about the achievements made by the CIIE in the past six years, many guests and exhibitors said that the CIIE is the epitome of China’s firm promotion of high-level opening up, and effectively promotes the world to share China’s large market and China’s new opportunities, so that win-win cooperation can benefit the world. world. Over the past six years, China has remained true to its original intention of hosting the China International Import Expo, welcoming guests from all continents and bringing together good things from around the world. It has continuously encouraged merchants from all over the world to seize China’s development opportunities in the new era, deepen international economic and trade cooperation, and achieve common prosperity and progress.
Create opportunities for development
China’s economy is a sea, not a small pond. Over the past six years, the CIIE has provided more market opportunities, investment opportunities, and growth opportunities for all countries to achieve common development.
“An important platform to showcase new products, new technologies, and new solutions”, “An excellent opportunity to increase influence and visibility”, “A good channel to expand the Chinese market”, “An excellent window to explore exchanges and cooperation”… This year, more than a hundred people from the world Senior executives from the global headquarters of Fortune 500 companies and industry leading companies came to China to participate in the CIIE, which reached a new high.
Grundfos, a multinational water pump manufacturer headquartered in Denmark, has participated in the exhibition for six consecutive years. It is not only a “full-time student” of the CIIE, but also a supplier of venue equipment.
“Come to the CIIE!” Peter Westergren-Oxen, Grundfos’ senior director of global products, extended an invitation to colleagues around the world. “This is a good opportunity to communicate face-to-face with Chinese customers.”
Last year, Oxon moved to China and participated in the CIIE for the first time. He was deeply touched by the exhibition and its “spillover effect”. He said that only by fully understanding the Chinese market and customer needs can we design more products that are close to local needs and have competitive advantages.
During this CIIE, Oxon’s colleague and Grundfos Global Vice President Astrid Nelgaard Frith will also attend the event on site. She said that this was her first time to China and her first time to participate in the CIIE, “and she has been looking forward to this for several years.” The CIIE can help companies “see more possibilities in global exchanges.”
Medtronic, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in the United States, has also participated in the CIIE for six consecutive years. Medtronic Chairman and CEO Jeff Massa told Xinhua News Agency that the CIIE is an important platform for multinational medical companies to share opportunities in the Chinese market and showcase global cutting-edge medical technologies. Thanks to the strong market influence of the CIIE, Medtronic’s products and services can benefit Chinese patients faster.
“The CIIE is a window for observing China’s economic development.” Massa said that China’s economy continues to develop and shows strong resilience and vitality, which attracts Medtronic to continue to strengthen local capacity building and continue to deepen its exploration in the Chinese market.
“The CIIE provides a platform for all multinational companies developing in China to display and communicate. It is a booster to strengthen international cooperation, stimulate innovation vitality and build an industrial ecosystem.” Siemens Global Executive Vice President, Chairman, President and CEO of Siemens China CEO Xiao Song told reporters that companies displaying products at the CIIE are like planting seeds. Now these exhibits, services or solutions have taken root in all walks of life in China.
Spanish economist Julio Ceballos believes that China uses the CIIE as a window to convey its willingness to expand opening to the outside world and strengthen economic and trade relations with the world, reflecting its commitment to multilateralism and international cooperation.
In the past five CIIEs, exhibitors launched about 2,000 new products, new technologies and services, with a cumulative intended transaction volume of nearly US$350 billion. As a major initiative in the history of international trade development, the CIIE is getting better and better, demonstrating China’s firm stance of supporting free trade and promoting win-win cooperation, as well as its responsibility to promote the construction of an open world economy and support economic globalization.
Make growth more inclusive
“Every time I go to Shanghai, I always come back with a smile.” Takam, a 51-year-old businesswoman from Cameroon, is a “frequent” at the CIIE. This year is her fourth time participating in the CIIE. At previous CIIEs, Takam discovered that Chinese consumers are particularly fond of pure natural products, so this year she specially selected mahogany oil with pure natural ingredients.
“The CIIE has helped me accumulate a lot of experience.” Takam told reporters with deep emotion. In her decades of business career, she has participated in exhibitions in many countries, but the CIIE has better effects. “The best The exhibition is always in China”.
“We must send the best and latest products to the CIIE”, “let more people know about the good things from our hometown”, “the CIIE brings us not only orders, but also hope”… Since the CIIE was held, many exhibitors It emits a similar voice and highlights the strong magnetism of the CIIE.
Since the first CIIE, Syrian female entrepreneur Rula Adib has actively participated in bringing rose essential oil and other specialty products to China. This year, Adib once again came to Shanghai with full expectations.
Adib told reporters that the cost of participating in the CIIE is not high. For small businesses like us from Syria, this is a huge opportunity to enter the Chinese market. Enterprises “start” from the CIIE to further explore the Chinese market. Since participating in the exhibition for the first time, the company has completed compliance procedures such as trademark registration in China, carried out initial brand building for the Chinese market, and also plans to launch new packaging to “bring surprises to Chinese customers.”
This CIIE provides free booths, subsidies and other measures to about 100 companies from 30 least developed countries, and continues to promote the entry of specialty products from these countries into the Chinese market. As Pamela Kirk-Hamilton, executive director of the International Trade Center, a joint organization of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, said, the CIIE is not only a “powerful platform” to promote international trade, but also an “important opportunity” for developing countries. .
The International Trade Center is a partner of the CIIE and organizes a group of small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in the CIIE every year. As of the fifth CIIE, the International Trade Center has organized 260 companies from 37 developing countries to participate. In Kirk-Hamilton’s view, one of the most important ways to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is to promote the continued growth of exports from least developed countries, and “the CIIE is actually part of the solution.”
“It is China’s economic vitality and market magnetism that attract us all the way here!” Philip Galanis, chairman of the Bahamas Trade Commission, told reporters that five Bahamian companies will participate in this CIIE. Although there is no booth, the CIIE The rich supporting forums will lay the foundation for The Bahamas to further participate in the CIIE in the future.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. The China-Europe freight train “CIIE” carries exhibits from the 6th CIIE across the Eurasian continent, continuously delivering products from the “Belt and Road” countries to the exhibition site. Rozalia Varfarovskaya, a leading researcher at the Chinese Socio-Economic Research Center of the Institute of China and Modern Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the CIIE will help promote high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road”.
Over the past six years, the CIIE’s “circle of friends” has continued to expand, attracting new and old friends of different sizes, industries, development stages and cultural backgrounds to attend the “China Covenant”, becoming a practical platform for China to continue to expand high-level opening up to the outside world. , issued a strong message of the times to promote inclusive growth of the world economy.
Accumulate momentum for the future
Over the past six years, the CIIE has become a window for China to build a new development pattern, a platform to promote high-level opening up, and an international public product shared by the world.
In 2018, at the opening ceremony of the first CIIE, Lagarde, then president of the International Monetary Fund, used the metaphor of a bridge and associated the CIIE with the “three bridges” built by China: “Bridge to the World” Bridge to Prosperity” “Bridge to the Future”. Just like the image described by Lagarde, the CIIE is also a bridge, connecting the world’s good products, companies from various countries, people’s livelihood and people’s hearts, and also connecting the vision of people around the world in pursuing a better life.
Openness brings progress, while isolation inevitably leads to backwardness. Expanding opening up and turning China’s big market into a big opportunity for the world is China’s original intention of hosting the CIIE.
“The CIIE has become an important platform for China to share development opportunities and strengthen cooperation with multinational companies, sending a strong signal that China insists on opening up to the outside world.” said Bai Ruiming, chief commercial officer and chairman of China of Rio Tinto, a global mining company. This year he He will attend the meeting together with the group’s CEO and looks forward to “feeling the pulse of the CIIE and the Chinese market.”
In the eyes of Haili Turk, an economics professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the CIIE will help promote a more open world economy and create more channels for global economic and trade exchanges. He said that in the context of some countries’ implementation of trade restrictions, intensified geopolitical conflicts, and increasing uncertainty in the world economy, holding the CIIE further demonstrates the value of China’s commitment to opening up.
Large-scale cooperative trade exhibitions such as the Canton Fair, Consumer Expo, Trade in Services Fair, China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, and China-Arab States Expo, together with the CIIE, have formed a national-level “exhibition matrix.” The spillover effect of these exhibitions continues to amplify, playing an important role in promoting the supply and demand docking of national-level goods and services, increasing trade exchanges between countries, and accumulating momentum for a shared future for all countries.
“China places its own development in global development, injects impetus into the development of other countries, and enhances the well-being of people in all countries.” Jovanovic, chairman of the Equality World Forum in Belgrade, Serbia, said with emotion.
“If we are connected, we will advance together; if we are related, we will retreat together.” China’s achievements have changed itself and the global economy. We should use openness to relieve development difficulties, use openness to bring together the power of cooperation, use openness to gather the momentum of innovation, and use openness to seek shared benefits, so as to push economic globalization forward. The original intention of opening up China to the CIIE is consistent, and we will work with partners to inject valuable certainty into a world intertwined with changes. (Participating reporters: Lin Jing, Wang Ze, Wang Jian, Jiang Youlin, Chen Binjie, Jiang Xuelan, Lian Yi, Hao Yalin, Xu Jing, Hu Jiaqi, Shi Zhongyu, Chen Yao, Luo Xin)
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2023-11-06 13:32:39
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