China News Service, Xiamen, September 8 (Reporter Long Min Yang Fushan) Following the footsteps of the China International Trade in Services Fair held in Beijing, 2020 Xiamen International Investment and Trade Fair and Silk Road Investment Conference (referred to as "Xiamen Fair") ) On the morning of the 8th, the curtain was opened in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, to revitalize investment confidence and promote the recovery of the world economy.
Since the beginning of this year, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has swept the world and severely impacted the world economy.
Under the normalized situation of epidemic prevention and control, while controlling the scale of on-site holdings, this Xiamen Fair will work with Alibaba Group to build a cloud platform and hold the "Cloud Investment and Fair" simultaneously.
Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of China's Ministry of Commerce and Deputy Representative for International Trade Negotiations, said that the "Cloud CIFIT" opened a new model of online and offline integration, and the "Never End CIFIT" showed a new look.
It is hoped that global businessmen can create a space for cooperation and share market opportunities through cloud display, cloud docking, cloud seminars, and cloud signing at the "Cloud Investment and Trade Fair".
In addition to the "Cloud Investment Fair" held online simultaneously, the total exhibition area of this "Xiamen Fair" is about 110,000 square meters. It is divided into two parts: investment theme pavilion and industry investment pavilion, with a total of 16 professional exhibition areas.
Among them, the overseas pavilion covers an area of 2,000 square meters. In addition to the Philippines, the country of honor, 42 countries and regions including the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and South Korea have confirmed their participation; the "Silk Road Shipping" pavilion is set up along the "Silk Road" National and regional investment cooperation creates new engines and fosters new business formats.
The China International Investment and Trade Fair, which takes place in Xiamen on September 8 each year, is the only international investment promotion activity aimed at promoting two-way investment in China. After years of exploration and development, it has become the world’s largest, most complete, and influential event. One of the most extensive international investment promotion platform and a global two-way investment event, has built a bridge between China and other countries in the world to strengthen cooperation and seek common development, and has also become an important window for China to open up.
Lin Jian, the deputy mayor of Xiamen, said that the current Xiamen Fair is based on the construction of the core area of Fujian’s “Haisi” and integrated into the “Belt and Road” initiative to create a two-way investment promotion platform that serves countries and regions in the post-epidemic era, and promotes the stability of the world economy. It plays an important role in healthy development, restoring investment confidence in the international community, serving "stabilizing foreign investment, stabilizing investment, and stabilizing foreign trade", and accelerating the formation of a new development pattern with domestic and international cycles as the main body and mutual promotion of domestic and international cycles.
World investment trends and economic trends under the epidemic prevention and control are hot topics of this Xiamen Fair.
The 2020 International Investment Forum and 9 parallel forums held at the Xiamen Fair will provide a dialogue platform for countries to jointly discuss the ways to warm together in the global economic winter.
Li Yong, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Fahad Alcarville, Chairman of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, Gazi Abner, Honorary Chairman of the World Trade Center Association, Ramon Lopez, Minister of Trade and Industry of the Philippines, etc. An important guest gave a video speech or a keynote speech.
In addition, this year's Xiamen Fair will cooperate with national business associations to release authoritative information reports, and organize a series of key regional and hot business matchmaking and investment promotion activities around key themes such as global investment promotion, new economy, financial funds, and industrial Internet. Experts, scholars and business representatives from various fields are invited to gather in Xiamen to catch the pulse of world economic development under the new situation.
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