China News Service, Haikou, May 10, title:
(The First Consumer Expo) From Boao to Consumer Expo: China shares market opportunities and demonstrates its determination to open up
China News Agency reporter Wang Xinli and Wang Ziqian
In early May, Hainan, the southernmost part of China, entered a hot weather pattern.
Compared with the warming climate, the hotter is popularity.
In less than a month, the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference and the first China International Consumer Goods Expo were successively held in the province.
The 2021 annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia coincides with the 20th anniversary of the founding of the forum. It has an unprecedented scale. Representatives from more than 60 countries and regions and more than 4,000 people have registered to participate, making it the world's largest offline conference this year.
The first Consumer Expo attracted nearly 1,500 domestic and foreign companies from about 70 countries and regions, and more than 20,000 buyers. It is the largest consumer boutique exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region.
On May 10, Haikou City, Hainan Province, the first Consumer Expo was opened to the public.
The picture shows people taking a group photo in front of the Consumer Expo logo.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
In Hall 3 of the Consumer Fair, the 180 products exhibited by CP Group cover 6 major business clusters including aquatic products, rice, and health products.
As the first foreign-funded enterprise to enter the mainland after China's reform and opening up, CP has actively participated in China's reform and opening up and has grown rapidly thanks to China's economic development.
Xue Zengyi, vice chairman of China's agriculture and animal husbandry food company of CP Group, said in front of the booth of the Consumer Expo that the Consumer Expo will be very attractive to multinational companies, which fits the company's main business and can fully display products.
In the previous Boao Forum for Asia 2011 annual meeting, Xie Guomin, chairman of CP Group, initiated the initiative and held the "Chinese Business Round Table Conference" for the first time.
He has participated in the conference many times and called on Chinese businessmen around the world to seize the strategic development opportunities of China's economic transformation and invest in Chinese industries.
In addition to CP, there are more than 200 high-quality products from more than 40 companies in the Thailand Pavilion of the Consumer Expo.
In his speech at the opening ceremony of the Consumer Expo, Thai Prime Minister Prayut stated that the participation of the Thai government and enterprises in the exhibition shows that the Thai side is actively implementing the leaders of the two countries to strengthen economic and trade cooperation and promote the passage of the Hainan Free Trade Port and the "Belt and Road" initiative. , To realize the promise of economic and trade interconnection, which will effectively promote the comprehensive and steady recovery of the economy, and maintain the stability of the multilateral trading system and the global supply and demand chain.
Chi Fulin, director of the China (Hainan) Reform and Development Research Institute, observed that with the increasing influence of the Boao Forum for Asia, it has become a platform for Chinese leaders to release information on China's reform and opening up.
As a national exhibition after the Canton Fair, the China International Import Expo, and the Service Trade Fair, the Consumer Expo is of iconic significance to the Hainan Free Trade Port, which is opening up a new height for China to the outside world. It adapts to the development trend of global service trade and is China’s opening up. Substantive measures.
The latest data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the total retail sales of consumer goods nationwide in China was 10,522.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.9% and an average growth of 4.2% in two years.
Driven by Chinese consumers, American company Tapestry has recently achieved a substantial increase in global revenue compared to before the epidemic.
Zhou Guanghua, vice president of the company's China region, said that from the Boao Forum for Asia to the Consumer Expo, China is practicing opening up from concept to practice.
He emphasized that these two meetings demonstrated China's determination to remain open to the outside world and will not close the door due to the epidemic or other international relations.
Foreign investors value whether China’s foreign policy, especially China’s long-term policy of attracting foreign investment, has changed.
Many foreign companies said that through these two meetings, they found that China is attracting foreign investment very strongly, which shows that the pace of China's reform and opening up has not stopped, and the degree of opening up is even greater.
These have strengthened their confidence to invest in China and share the opportunities in the Chinese market.
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