News from this newspaper (Reporter Zhao Diewen/Picture) Yesterday the reporter learned from the Organizing Committee of the 18th Western China International Expo that the 18th Western China International Expo (hereinafter referred to as "Xibo Meeting”) successfully concluded in Chengdu on September 20. 4,015 companies participated in the exhibition, more than 50,000 guests and merchants from 66 countries and regions participated in the online and offline exhibitions, and 758 investment cooperation projects were successfully signed... Another western event ended perfectly.
new opportunities and new expectations
series of activities are highly praised. This year's West Expo focused on building a high-level open communication platform, hosting 5 main events, 1 guest country event, 2 rotating chairman unit events, 3 theme city events, 15 special events, and 3 branch venue events. These activities have shared new opportunities and new development expectations for the western region in the new era from different dimensions and levels. For the first time, a Southeast Asian country-Singapore was invited as the guest of honor, and it successfully hosted the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Singapore-Sichuan Trade and Investment Committee and other activities, deepening the pragmatic cooperation between the western region and Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries.
dignitaries and guests cloud integration. Despite the impact of the epidemic, this year's West Expo still attracts important international and domestic guests to participate. Important guests such as foreign politicians, foreign minister-level officials, and foreign guest groups attended the opening ceremony online or offline. A number of top 500 guests from the three categories participated in the 11th China Western Investment Conference and other activities, continuously helping the western region to move towards the forefront of opening up.
New pattern New focus
highlights the important platform functions of the “Belt and Road” joint construction. This year's West Expo will set up a special "Belt and Road" international cooperation exhibition hall to showcase the achievements of infrastructure interconnection, two-way trade and investment cooperation, technological innovation along the "Belt and Road" and related countries, as well as relevant national advantageous industries and characteristics The products have attracted more than 50 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. During the exhibition, the 10th Western China International Cooperation Forum, the 11th China (Sichuan)-South Asia Southeast Asia Business Leaders Summit, the 12th Western China International Capital Forum and Global Economic Development Forum Central and Eastern Europe Summit, 2021 "Belt and Road" Activities such as the Chinese Business Summit opened one after another.
highlights the strategic traction of the "two-city economic circle". Focusing on the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing region's dual-city economic circle, the Chengdu-Chongqing region's dual-city economic circle cooperation pavilion was created for the first time. Supporting and leading major projects. Focusing on innovation and development, park construction, economic development, etc., successfully held the "Two Cities, Two Carbon and Two Cycles-China Chief Economist Forum", the Chengdu-Chongqing Double City Economic Circle Collaborative Innovation and High-quality Development Entrepreneur Summit Forum and Manufacturing Park Investment Promotion Activities such as the Investment Conference, the Sichuan-Chongqing Private Economic Development Cooperation Summit and the 2021 (5th) Tianfu Forum.
highlights the coordinated development of 's new western land-sea channel . Focusing on the construction of the new western land-sea corridor, set up the first western land-sea new channel cooperation pavilion, focusing on displaying the construction achievements of the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) along the western land-sea new channel in cold chain logistics, free trade zones, comprehensive protection zones, ports and other fields; setting up a new western industry The Kinetic Energy Pavilion showcases the tremendous progress and development achievements made in the development and opening up, modern industry, ecological security and other fields of the western region, which has strongly promoted the coordinated and coordinated economic development of the western region.
new image and new achievement
investment promotion bears fruit. At this West China Expo, relevant western provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps launched 2,445 foreign investment projects focusing on characteristic advantageous industries and strategic emerging industries as well as major infrastructure and important reform areas. Fang signed 758 investment cooperation projects with domestic and foreign investors, with a total investment of 4.3 trillion yuan, which further promoted domestic and foreign enterprises to pay attention to, enter and invest in the west. During the exhibition, the Tibet and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps simultaneously held relevant thematic investment promotion activities, and presented the new business cards of "Share the Third Pole of the Earth" and "Open Corps" to the world.
Economic and trade cooperation adds further results. The 13th Western China International Buyers Conference, the 16th China-EU Investment and Trade Technology Cooperation Fair and the Opening Ceremony of the Sichuan Export Commodity Fair and the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 Sichuan Superior Featured Industry Boutique Trade Conference, the 3rd Western China International The pregnancy and infant fair, the 2nd Western (International) Children’s Culture and Entertainment Expo, and the 12th Western China International Hardware & Electrical Expo 3 sub-venue activities have appeared one after another.Help "Made in Sichuan" go abroad and Western characteristic products to the international stage, and promote the western region to enter the global trade market.
Open cooperation cities and prefectures to play the leading role. Leveraging on the platform of this year's West China Expo, cities and prefectures have held a series of investment promotion activities around the modern industrial system of "5+1" in industry, "10+3" in agriculture and "4+6" in service industry, demonstrating the industrial foundation of Sichuan in an all-round way. The new image of solidity, burst of development vitality and broad investment prospects demonstrates the new development vitality of "one branch with multiple branches and five districts in coordination". As the theme city of this year's West Expo, Leshan City has set up a comprehensive image exhibition hall to comprehensively showcase the development achievements in cultural tourism economy, modern industry, rural revitalization, modern service industry, etc., and hold China-Japan-Korea (Leshan) economic and trade cooperation and exchanges. The three activities, including the first Leshan International Food Festival, and Leshan Investment Promotion and Project Signing Ceremony, created a new business card for "Leshan City of Food" and let "Leshan Impression" go to the world.
New Challenge New Model
Epidemic prevention and control safety is paramount. In accordance with the principles of "classified implementation, due inspections, and safety," this year's West China Expo formulated epidemic prevention and control work plans and emergency plans, established provincial and municipal epidemic prevention and control expert groups, and clarified personnel health monitoring, nucleic acid testing and other requirements ; Implement designated professional medical personnel and treatment hospitals to do emergency transfer and medical treatment; all participants, staff, service personnel and exhibitors shall strictly implement pre-conference health monitoring and two nucleic acid tests within 48 hours. Overseas guests and businessmen All participate online.
The first innovation of the exhibition model. Facing the new challenges of the epidemic and the new trend of exhibition industry accelerating the development of digitalization and intelligentization, this year's West China Expo has innovated the exhibition and conference mode. In terms of exhibition setting, the outdoor exhibition area was innovatively set up for the first time to host Leshan International In the Food Festival, the innovatively set up branch venues with a total area of 478,000 square meters, actively publicize and promote famous and special products such as "produced in Sichuan, made in Sichuan, and created in Sichuan"; in the field of science and technology applications, the digital exhibition service platform is used to pioneer the "exhibition + live broadcast" The integration model of “Tianfu Exhibition Cloud” realized the organic integration of online and offline for the first time, and realized “cloud display”, “cloud negotiation” and “cloud signing”. ,It has accumulated more than 150,000 visits and upgraded the IP brand of "Xibo Hi Shopping Festival" to ensure the effectiveness of the exhibition activities.
The publicity report is vivid and colorful. The media at home and abroad paid extensive attention, with more than 160 media and more than 800 journalists attending the conference to cover and report. During the exhibition, we will focus on expo exhibition, investment promotion, project cooperation, service trade and other fields, and organize more than 80 interviews with reporters. The conference, the exhibition site, and the live webcast of the "Xibo Hi Shopping Festival" were watched online for more than 3 million times, more than 3,000 related information reports were released, and more than 20 million clicks and reads on Weibo topics related to the China West Expo.
(Source: Southwest Business Daily September 28, 2021 06th edition: The market is fruitful and rewarding The eighteenth Western China International Expo ended perfectly in Chengdu)
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