The first China International Import Expo has fruitful results
Q: This is the first time that China has hosted the China International Import Expo. It is highly concerned at home and abroad. Can you please introduce the main features and significance of the first China Expo?
Zhongshan: The first China International Import Expo was fruitful, brilliant and widely acclaimed, and it was a complete success. This is the successful practice of Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, the concrete action to implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the major event celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
This is a grand meeting of the party's wise decision-making. The holding of the Expo is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core to promote a new round of high-level opening up. It is a major initiative for China to open its market to the world. The Expo was personally planned by President Xi Jinping, personally proposed, personally deployed, and personally promoted. President Xi Jinping has made important instructions on many occasions, emphasizing the need to become a world-class fair; personally promoting it in a number of major international occasions and numerous bilateral events, welcoming all parties to China to provide a strong political guarantee for the successful hosting of the Expo. .
This is a fruitful event. The first entry fair included exhibitions and forums. The exhibition consists of a national trade and investment exhibition and a corporate trade show. The National Exhibition mainly displays the image and development achievements of various countries, and only shows that it is not sold; the exhibition is divided into seven major exhibition areas, both trade in goods and trade in services. 172 countries, regions and international organizations from five continents participated in the conference, and 3,617 exhibitors participated in the exhibition. More than 800,000 people entered the library to negotiate purchase and visit experience, with a turnover of US$57.8 billion. The Hongqiao International Economic and Trade Forum consists of the main forum, three parallel forums, and international financial media and think tank forums. More than 4,500 guests from all walks of life attended the event. The first session of the Expo was widely followed by domestic and foreign, attracting nearly 4,000 Chinese and foreign journalists to attend the conference.
This is an "uncommon" event. President Xi Jinping emphasized that the Expo is not a general exhibition and pointed out the direction for the Expo. Specifically embodied in: the theme is not general, is the world's first national-level exhibition with the theme of import, is a major innovation in the history of international trade development. The content is not general. It integrates diplomacy, exhibitions and forums. It not only negotiates cooperation but also exchanges ideas. It can not only benefit but also the future. Economic cooperation and humanities exchanges can complement each other and complement each other. The form is not general, insist on open cooperation and exhibitions, and the WTO, UNCTAD, UN UNIDO and other international organizations act as cooperative units. The participating countries and China will work together to create an open and diverse exhibition. The role is not general, to serve the overall situation of economic and social development, to serve the strategy of opening to the outside world, and to serve the “Belt and Road”. It not only allows the world to share China's huge market opportunities, but also builds a common platform for countries to cooperate with each other, providing an international public product for economic globalization.
This is a significant event. The Expo will help to co-ordinate two resources in the international and domestic markets, promote the construction of a modern economic system, promote global opening through active opening, and promote the construction of the “Belt and Road”. It is the symbol of China’s new era and high level of openness. engineering. The Expo will help deepen the structural reform of the supply side, expand the supply of high-end and high-end products, enable consumers to experience and enjoy global good goods without going abroad, better meet the needs of the people's better life, and be an effective carrier to promote high-quality economic development. . The Expo will help countries to share China's development opportunities, expand cooperation space, and tighten interest ties, which is a practical move to promote the building of a community of human destiny. The Expo is an international event that is both good for China and good for the world. It is an international event that promotes open development and win-win cooperation.
The success of the Expo is based on the wise decision-making and strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. It is a full expression of the superiority of China's socialist system and is the joint efforts of all members of the Preparatory Committee, localities and departments. the result of.