Chinanews.com, Hangzhou, December 8 (Reporter Huang Hui) As the only national and global professional expo with the theme of digital trade in China, the first Global Digital Trade Expo (hereinafter referred to as "Digital Trade Fair") will be held on December 12. It will be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province from March 11th to 14th.
In the context of the rapid development of global digital trade, what is the meaning behind such a high-profile expo?
On the 8th, the press conference of the first Global Digital Trade Expo held in Hangzhou revealed a lot of information.
Digital trade is an important part of the digital economy, represents a new trend in the development of global trade, is a new engine for global trade growth, and injects new vitality into the recovery and growth of the world economy.
This also means that overweighting the development of digital trade is the only way.
In recent years, China's digital trade has flourished and has become a major digital trade country. The transaction volume of e-commerce and the scale of mobile payment transactions rank first in the world. The foundation of digital industrialization has become more solid, and the pace of industrial digitalization continues to accelerate.
In the first half of this year, China's digital service trade volume reached 1.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%.
Wu Zhengping, director of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the holding of the Digital Trade Fair will play an important role in promoting the vigorous development of China's digital trade, further expanding institutional opening, and promoting international exchanges and cooperation in digital trade.
As it said, the Digital Trade Fair will expand the "circle of friends" of digital trade.
The expo invites international organizations, international political figures, and international companies. Ireland, which is known as the "European Silicon Valley", is the country of honor. International organizations such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations International Trade Center, and the World Trade Organization, as well as Ireland, Belgium, and Singapore National dignitaries will participate in the conference, and important foreign guests from many countries will participate in the conference online and offline to promote the opening and cooperation of the digital economy into the fast lane.
At the same time, the Digital Trade Fair will build a digital trade platform that "participates in the formulation of global trade rules and demonstrates the achievements of digital economic development".
According to reports, the Digital Trade Fair covers the entire industry chain of digital trade, focusing on key areas such as digital products, digital technology, and digital services. It has set up 1 comprehensive pavilion and 6 special pavilions to comprehensively display the development trend of global digital trade and the development of China's digital trade. Results, as well as new trends, new technologies, and new scenarios in the field of digital trade.
Here, you can see the "new trends" of global technology products.
Han Jie, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, said that more than 800 leading companies in digital trade at home and abroad will gather here. Participants can visit many new technologies and new products such as automotive robot autonomous driving and situational awareness all-in-one machines, and experience them on the spot. Interactive projects such as the digital RMB Asian Games scene and the 3D digital clone experience cabin have witnessed various "first launches", "first shows" and "first exhibitions" in the field of global digital trade.
Not only that, during the Digital Trade Fair, research results, standards, and rules including "2022 Top 100 Global Digital Trade Enterprises Selection", "2022 Top 100 Digital Trade Enterprises List", "China Digital Trade Development Report (2021)" etc. Will be released to fully promote the steady and long-term development of digital trade.
Wu Zhengping believes that the Digital Trade Fair will also cultivate a high-level event in the field of digital trade with international influence.
"The first digital trade fair has both exhibitions and high-level conferences and forums, as well as economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges. It has built a broad platform for friends from all walks of life in the field of digital trade to exchange experience, discuss development, promote cooperation, and expand business opportunities. , It will also become a high-level event to participate in the formulation of global digital trade rules."
Why did the Digital Trade Fair fall in Zhejiang?
What is the strength of Zhejiang to do business globally?
On the map of China's digital economy, Zhejiang is undoubtedly a strong stroke.
As early as 2003, Zhejiang proposed the construction of "Digital Zhejiang".
In recent years, Zhejiang has vigorously implemented the "No. 1 Project" of the digital economy to add impetus to high-quality development.
The province is at the forefront of the country in terms of digital trade development scale, platform agglomeration, and rule exploration.
For Hangzhou, which has unique advantages in digital trade, the holding of the Digital Trade Fair is also very important.
Sun Xudong, deputy mayor of the Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, said that the Digital Trade Fair is an important open platform, which provides a rare opportunity for Hangzhou to make precise efforts to build a digital free trade zone.
"Focusing on the functional positioning of 'three districts and one center' endowed by the state, Hangzhou will speed up the construction of a 'world-class, nationally leading' digital trade demonstration zone, vigorously build five 100 billion industrial clusters and a trillion cross-border settlement hub, and build a Contribute to the Global Digital Trade Center." (End)