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SHANGHAI, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The 5th edition of the China International Import Expo (CIIE), which concluded

on Thursday, was hailed as another fruitful event as the value of intended

deals reached during the six-day expo increased 3.9 percent from the previous

year to $73.52 billion. Sun Chenghai, deputy director-general of the CIIE

Bureau, described the expo as a "successful, splendid and fruitful" one at a

news conference on Nov 10.

Jinbao, mascot of the China International Import Expo, welcomes visitors from

all over the world. (Photo: Liu Tianyang)

This year's CIIE, like previous editions, comprised a business exhibition, the

Hongqiao International Economic Forum, a country exhibition, as well as a slew

of supporting activities and people-to-people and cultural exchanges programs.

As of 12 pm on Nov 10, the expo had received about 461,000 visitors.

This year's CIIE attracted participants from 145 countries, regions and

international organizations. More than 2,800 enterprises, including 284 of the

world's top 500 enterprises and many industry giants, gathered to showcase

their products and services at the business exhibition. About 90 percent of

them were repeat exhibitors.

The fifth CIIE also welcomed 39 trade missions and nearly 600 sub-trade

missions. More than 600 intended deals were reached at 82 project signing

ceremonies. A total of 293 cooperation intention agreements involving $5.9

billion worth of products and services were signed at trade and investment

matchmaking conferences during the expo. The number of technologies, high-tech

products, and innovative services debuted at the 5th version was 438.

This year's online country exhibition enabled 69 countries and international

organizations to display their scientific and technological achievements,

culture and art. The online exhibition saw 59 million visits, more than the

previous edition.

The Hongqiao International Economic Forum, which included 24 parallel sessions,

invited high-profile government officials, Nobel Prize laureates, academicians,

senior executives of industrial pacesetters from home and abroad to discuss

global openness, with the RCEP and Higher-level Opening-up, and the Release of

World Openness Report 2022 being among the highlights.

This year, international organizations such as the United Nations Industrial

Development Organization and the United Nations Population Fund organized

forums for the first time and helped expand the global influence of the

Hongqiao Forum.

The e-CIIE 2022, a digital platform new to the expo, drew 368 companies from

the intelligent industry and information technology sector to showcase their

latest products, and had more than 600,000 visits.

A new exhibition area was set up this year to demonstrate China's opening-up

achievements over the past decade.

The area that hosted the expo's cultural exchange activities was a record high

32,000 square meters. More than 700 institutions from around the world, a

year-on-year increase of 16 percent, attended these activities.

A 12,000-sq-m long-standing exhibition was set up to showcase the cultural

exchange of 10 provinces, autonomous regions and provincial-level

municipalities.

Troupes from the Hong Kong Special Administrative

Region[https://fanyi.baidu.com/?aldtype=85&keyfrom=alading#en/zh/Hong%20Kong%20S

pecial%20Administrative%20Region%2C%20HKSAR] also brought performances to the

expo for the first time.

About 100,000 square meters of exhibition space for next year's CIIE has

already been booked. Be sure to secure your booth of the 6th CIIE at:

https://www.ciie.org/exhibition/f/book/register?locale=en

Contact: Ms. Cui Yan

Tel.: 0086-21-968888

Email: ciie2022@ciie.org

Website: http://www.ciie.org/zbh/en/

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