[Commentary] On September 3, the State Information Office held a press conference on the development of service trade and the progress of the preparations for the 2020 Service Trade Fair.

Yang Jinbai, Vice Mayor of Beijing, introduced at the meeting that the current service trade fair will open in Beijing on September 4, and has successfully completed the investment invitation and exhibition, with more than 100,000 registered participants.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Jinbai, Deputy Mayor of Beijing

　　The 2020 Service Trade Fair will open on September 4 and close on September 9.

International organizations, embassies in China, foreign business associations, institutions and enterprises from 148 countries and regions participated in the exhibition.

The top 30 countries and regions in service trade have institutions and enterprises participating. A total of 18,000 domestic and foreign companies and institutions registered online and offline to participate in the exhibition. More than 100,000 people registered to participate in the exhibition. 381 pre-funded results have been collected.

　　[Explanation] As one of the four major exhibitions opened to the outside world in China.

Since 2012, the Service Trade Fair has been successfully held for 6 sessions, accumulating more than 10,000 exhibitors and attracting more than 1 million merchants from 184 countries and regions.

Yang Jinbo introduced that the theme of this session of the Service Trade Fair is "Global Service Mutual Benefit Sharing", and the concept of the conference highlights "three services" and "three brand new".

　　[Concurrent] Yang Jinbai, Deputy Mayor of Beijing

　　The first is to adhere to the strategy of serving the country and "new exploration" to help the dual cycle.

The second is to adhere to the "new empowerment" of high-quality service development to promote transformation and upgrading.

Aiming at world-class technologies, standards and products, we will give play to the aggregation role of the exhibition platform, promote high-quality development, and promote industrial transformation and upgrading.

The third is to adhere to the opening up of services and "new experience" to break through time and space to serve the world.

A number of new policies and measures for opening up to the outside world will be released for the first time, and a number of new lists and new results in the 12 major areas of service trade will also be released one after another.

　　[Commentary] In addition, Yan Ligang, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that taking into account the global epidemic, the current service trade fair will be held in a combination of online and offline methods, and a special digital platform for the trade fair has been created.

　　[Concurrent] Yan Ligang, Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce

　　Online conferences can provide 500, and hold conference rooms of 100, 500 and 1,000 people at the same time.

Provide face-to-face business contacts on the cloud.

This platform provides 5000 private negotiation rooms for business negotiation such as one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many.

　　[Commentary] A reporter asked at the conference, how can ordinary visitors participate in the exhibition?

According to Yan Ligang, starting from September 2nd, the Service Trade Fair opened a personal appointment for the exhibition.

Online participation can be registered through the website of the Service Trade Fair or the official APP, and participate in live online meetings.

If you want to participate offline, people can register their ID number on the official website to make an appointment or bring their ID card to the site to register and enter the exhibition.

　　Liu Xuanting reports from Beijing

Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]