2020 Service Trade Fair will promote the "signal light" of global economic recovery
□ Our reporter Wu Qiong
The 2020 China International Service Trade Fair (Service Trade Fair) came to an end on September 9. The current Service Trade Fair has vigorously promoted the innovative development of service trade and international cooperation, helped the global economic recovery, and at the same time demonstrated to the world my country’s opening up attitude.
Many exhibitors and organizations that have enjoyed development opportunities praised the Service Trade Fair.
In the face of the continuing spread of the global epidemic and the severe and complex economic and trade situation, the "headwind" and "countercurrent" have achieved good results and public praise, and proved to the world that openness, cooperation, and win-win are still the consensus and mainstream of the international community.
Exhibitors and institutions benefited
This service trade fair is China's first major international economic and trade event combining online and offline since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. It has a clear theme, rich content, and bright spots.
After the service trade fair ended, from the perspective of transaction results, exchange results, and impact, the current service trade fair has achieved fruitful results.
According to reports, this session of the Service Trade Fair was active, with 240 agreements and agreements signed; 190 forums and negotiation activities were held, and 97 authoritative publication achievements, 19 alliance platform achievements, and 99 innovation achievements were obtained. .
22,000 online and offline participating companies and institutions from 148 countries and regions have gained tangible benefits.
Because of this, many exhibitors and guests who have benefited from the Service Trade Fair, people from all over the world and domestic and foreign media who are concerned about the 2020 Service Trade Fair have praised the event held in this special period.
The Philippine Embassy in China and the Tourism Counselor of the Beijing Office of the Philippine National Tourism Administration, Bai Aiwen, said in an interview with a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily: "The successful holding of this service trade fair will not only promote cooperation and exchanges between the Philippines and China in the field of service trade. And all the participating countries have benefited a lot."
"This is an important event of strategic significance." Wilfred Maroube, CEO of the Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Bureau, gave positive comments to the Service Trade Fair, calling the exhibition a field of information communication, logistics, bancassurance, etc. Companies provide platforms, and these areas are critical to Kenya’s economic recovery after the epidemic.
Claudia Pereda, president of the National Foreign Trade Bank of Mexico, who participated in the service trade fair for the first time, believes that the service trade fair platform can better communicate directly with Chinese companies.
He promised that "we will definitely come to China again next year to participate in the conference."
The Panamanian website "Telemetro" reported that the Panamanian Embassy in China has once again enhanced Panama's international reputation as a logistics hub and a tourist destination country through the booth set up at this service trade fair.
Paola Lepedo, Minister-Counselor of the Uruguayan Embassy in China, also believes that this session of the Trade Fair will bring more business opportunities to Uruguay.
"Take advantage of the opportunity of the Service and Trade Association, China will soon become one of Uruguay's main sources of foreign investment."
The US "Qiao Bao" in the editorial titled "Service Trade Association's China and the World'" summarized the comment that this session of the Service Trade Association not only made the public "eye addiction", but also let domestic and foreign enterprises taste. To the sweetness of "Nuggets".
Promote innovative development and international cooperation
Many participating foreign business associations and exhibiting companies believe that the current service trade fair has accumulated new experience and new results in innovative exhibition service models under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, and promoted the innovative development of service trade and international cooperation.
As an exhibitor of this year's Service Trade Fair, the Marketing Manager of the Hamburg Tourism Bureau, Germany, commented that the service trade fair "the form of online and offline integration is the latest development trend of the exhibition."
Deloitte China North China Regional Managing Partner Shi Nengzi said: "This session of the Service Trade Fair explores the future development trend of service trade, allowing us to share exchanges with our peers and other ecosystems and promote the positive development of the industry."
In terms of promoting international cooperation in service trade, Margit Molner, director of the China Economic Policy Research Office of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, praised the Service Trade Association for “helping to accelerate the recovery of the service industry and promote the growth of international service trade”.
As a tourism counsellor, Bai Aiwen focused on the international cooperation and exchanges in the field of tourism service trade to reporters, and believed that at the critical moment of the normalization of global epidemic prevention and control and the restart of the tourism industry, the service trade fair held by China is of great significance.
"As a tourism counsellor, I think that the successful holding of the Service Trade Fair has given us a good opportunity to enhance the attractiveness of the Philippines in the tourism market. This is at the moment when the travel and communication between the Philippines and the Chinese people are somewhat blocked due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. It seems particularly important."
In addition to exhibiting companies and institutions, domestic and foreign media have also paid close attention to the important role played by the Service Trade Association in promoting international cooperation in service trade.
The US "Qiao Bao" pointed out that as the world's first comprehensive exhibition in the field of service trade, the Service Trade Association not only opens the Chinese market to service providers worldwide, but also introduces China's innovative services and innovative technologies to the world. Promote international cooperation and revitalize the "energy" of global service trade.
The report believes that this is also the meaning of the theme of the "Global Service, Mutual Benefit Sharing" theme of the 2020 Service Trade Conference.
Demonstrate a stance of expanding openness to the world
A number of exhibitors, institutions and media from multiple countries stated that this session of the Service Trade Fair fully demonstrated China's firm confidence in continuing to expand its opening up.
As one of the exhibitors of the Service Trade Fair’s educational service topic, Jesper Knutel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of EF Education Enterprise and Government Solutions China, believes that China’s service trade has a different significance in accelerating the opening up in a special period. Unusual.
This service trade fair has attracted many Malaysian tourism industry participants.
Malaysian ambassador to China Raja Datuk Nusirwan pointed out when evaluating the event that from the 2020 Service Trade Fair, it can be seen that China still continues to adhere to the confidence and determination of reform and opening up.
The media is particularly concerned about China's posture of expanding opening up.
Singapore’s "Lianhe Zaobao" commented that through the Service Trade Fair, China has shown a stance of expanding its opening up to the world, and it has also released to the outside world China’s obvious goodwill to continue to relax market access for the service industry and actively expand imports of high-quality services.
In addition, politicians from many countries and international public opinion also pointed out that the current service trade fair has become a "signal" for promoting global economic recovery, and has actively promoted all sectors of the world to jointly fight the epidemic and promote economic recovery to reach important consensus.
Peter Buck, Chairman and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, believes that the 2020 Service Trade Fair will be held at a critical moment, which has strengthened people's confidence in economic recovery.
Bai Aiwen said, “I think the success of this service trade fair is not only in the recovery and promotion of the tourism industry, it has also promoted trade activities within and outside China. Therefore, the service trade fair can be said to have successfully achieved the expected goal of the conference. "
The Japan Broadcasting Association website stated that the 2020 Service Trade Fair hosted by China has shown its determination to promote economic recovery while the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still raging around the world.
When evaluating the source of the super high popularity of the current service trade fair, international public opinion said, “This is because China has demonstrated a consistent open attitude and an orderly restoration of economic order, but also because the huge potential of China’s service trade market has made the world Companies see business opportunities."
The Service Trade Fair in 2020 has come to an end, and the 3rd China International Import Expo ("CIIE") will come again in November.
China's opening to the outside world has provided the international community with the scarcest exchange platform at the moment.
A higher level of openness in China will surely inject a source of impetus into the prosperity and development of the world.
Cartography/Li Xiaojun
Compared with previous sessions, the 2020 Service Trade Fair will actively innovate and realize the integration of comprehensive and thematic, online and offline, indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
The reporter felt deeply about this during the interview: Chinese and foreign exhibitors gathered in the offline exhibition halls, and the atmosphere of the negotiations was enthusiastic. A large number of new technologies, new products, such as inactivated vaccines for the new crown virus, smart city operating systems, rehabilitation training robots, ultra-high-definition data services, etc. New services are unveiled; online venues, "cloud exhibition" makes people feel like they are on the scene, "cloud conference" live broadcast simultaneously, "cloud negotiation" crosses the barrier of space...
Many online and offline exhibitors, institutions, and individuals interviewed even sent a strong signal: Openness, cooperation, and win-win are still the consensus and mainstream of the international community.
A China that is open-minded and embracing cooperation will surely win more cooperation in opening up and go further in cooperation.
From this perspective, although the six-day service trade fair period has ended, the influence of the trade fair may never end.
Through this interview, the reporter also learned that 60% of the world's total economic output comes from the service industry, and service exports, which account for 20% of global exports, contribute nearly half of the global foreign trade added value.
It can be said that the prospects for the development of service trade are broad, which is where the growth potential of the world economy lies.
At present, many industries have been affected by the global epidemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, but services such as telemedicine, online education, shared platforms, collaborative office, and cross-border e-commerce have been widely used.
Looking to the future, open cooperation in the service industry is increasingly becoming an important force for development.
With the help of the Service Trade Fair, China will build a new platform for the development of global service trade, create a big market, work with all parties to create an open and inclusive cooperation environment, activate innovation-led cooperation momentum, and continue to create a new situation of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation.