The Eighth China International SME Expo Opens Today

The China Fair has adopted a competitive recruitment mode in Guangdong province; the first official guest country was introduced; the Japanese exhibition area doubled; the participation of financial institutions increased significantly.

The Eighth China International SME Fair and the Sino Thai SME Expo (hereinafter referred to as "the Eighth China Fair") will be held on from September 22nd to 25th in the A area of Guangzhou China Import and Export Fair. Zhang Wenxian, director of the Guangdong provincial organizing committee and director of Guangdong SME Bureau, said: "the innovation this year is to increase the intensity of specialization."

Nandu reporters learned yesterday from the organizers that the Eighth China Expo held 10 pavilions. Standard booth 5073, the exhibition area is 100 thousand square meters. At present, nearly 3000 SMEs in 32 countries and regions, including China, have signed up for the exhibition, with more than 5000 booths. There are 626 overseas enterprises and more than 80 thousand registered merchants. The conference focuses on the current hot issues of small and medium enterprises to arrange activities to serve the needs of spanformation and upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises.

At present, there are more than 3000 small and medium-sized enterprises in China and abroad. Thailand will serve as the guest host country of the current China Expo, and Russia will attend the exhibition as the official guest of the first China Expo.

The exhibition plan is over fulfilled.

According to the data released by the organizing committee, 3561 of the 7 domestic libraries have been recruited, completing 101.7% of the 3500 plans, and exhibiting 2223 small and medium-sized enterprises. 3 overseas exhibition pavilions have implemented 1512 booths, completing 100.8% of the 1500 plans, and exhibiting 817 small and medium-sized enterprises from 33 countries and regions such as Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Spain, Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan.

The organizers of the organizing committee told reporters in Nandu, "so far, overseas exhibitors have participated in the exhibition, including participants from the European Union, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries and regions. It has been revealed that 817 small and medium-sized enterprises which have signed up for overseas exhibitions have already implemented 2717 domestic docking enterprises and 3737 docking merchants.

"Aiming at the many difficulties and problems faced by the small and medium-sized enterprises, as the big province of small and medium-sized enterprises, we have organized the eighth session in a specific way. Expo Central China In the work, we should give prominence to the three aspects of spanformation and upgrading of SMEs, alleviate the financing difficulties of SMEs, and enhance the comprehensive quality of SMEs. We should strive to build a high-end platform for the development of SMEs, and promote the display, trading, exchanges and cooperation of SMEs at home and abroad to boost SMEs' strength and growth. Chen Yunxian, vice governor of Guangdong, said at the news conference of the general assembly.

Zhang Jianming, Vice Minister of Information Department of Guangdong provincial council for international trade promotion, told reporters yesterday in Nandu that the provincial council for trade promotion will also invite us government officials and entrepreneurs from the environmental protection, water treatment and clean energy industries to carry out project docking with Guangdong enterprises. In order to actively help domestic enterprises to "go out" very well, the Guangdong provincial council for Trade Promotion (CCPIT) actively invited the Guangdong chamber of Commerce in the United States, Holland and the United Arab Emirates to participate in the exhibition.

Stepping up specialization

In order to create more professional banquet, the China Fair will be in the investment mode. Scale of exhibition The exhibition hall service has been explored completely. "The innovation of this year's China Fair is to increase its professionalization efforts." Zhang Wenxian, director of the eighth Guangdong provincial organizing committee and director of Guangdong provincial SME Bureau, said that the international energy saving and environmental protection technology exhibition area is bigger and stronger, and the docking activities between Chinese and foreign enterprises are further and meticulous and the exhibition hall service is more professional.

The promotion of specialization is also reflected in the further concentration of industry exhibition. The scale of government recruitment has been reduced from 5 museums and 9 industries in the seventh China Fair to 4 museums and 3 industries. In addition, the competitive recruitment mode in Guangdong province has been changed from the task directly assigned by the organizing committee to the initiative of all cities to apply for booths and investment promotion tasks.

"This can fully demonstrate the achievements of SMEs' independent innovation, spanformation and upgrading, and the economic development of private enterprises, and further focus on Industry Exhibition and highlight professionalism." Zhang Wenxian said.

Zhu Hongren, deputy director of the Organizing Committee of the Eighth China Expo and member of the Party committee of the Ministry of industry and information, also highlighted the professional characteristics of this Expo. First, the formation of professional focus, improve service levels. This year's focus will be on machinery and electronics, textile and clothing, food and medicine, home building materials, catering equipment and raw materials, etc. The two is to enrich the international content and enhance the display effect. This year will continue to highlight the host country Pavilion and increase the content of guest countries. Thailand, the host country, will organize nearly 200 small and medium-sized furniture exhibitors to participate in the exhibition. The guest countries Russia has 147 enterprises to participate in the exhibition. Three is to grasp the current hot spots and create quality forum. During the Expo, 12 major forum activities will be organized around the hot issues of SME development, such as China SME Summit Forum and Asia Europe SME development seminar. The four is to do well the docking service and ensure the effectiveness. The organizing committee is committed to improving the level of docking service between Chinese and foreign enterprises, and promoting exchanges and cooperation between China's small and medium-sized enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in various countries and regions around the world.

"The China Expo is different from the Canton Fair, highlighting the centralization of services for small and medium enterprises, so the key is to solve the problem of spanformation and upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises, build various platforms for the development of SMEs, and enhance the overall quality of SMEs." Xiao Yaofei, a professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, told reporters in an interview with Nandu.

Expansion of overseas exhibition hall and financial institutions

Compared with previous registration forms, Nandu journalists found that the "international flavor" of China Expo is becoming stronger every year, and overseas exhibitors are enthusiastic. Besides the host country and honorary host country in previous years, the official guest country mechanism has been introduced for the first time in this Expo, so that more and more small and medium enterprises at home and abroad are active on display, trading, communication and cooperation on this platform.

During the current China Expo, overseas exhibition hall has expanded greatly in scale compared with the previous period. At the same time, the scale of the Hongkong exhibition area has doubled to the seventh China Fair, reaching 144 booths. Macao has applied for half a pavilion and has 66 booths. In Taiwan exhibition area, the quality of the exhibitors has been greatly improved compared with last year. All the exhibitors are from Taiwan, and 70% of the enterprises have come to the mainland for the first time. Apart from setting up Thailand's principal guest abroad, Russia has also been added as a guest country, as well as honorary host countries such as Japan, Korea, Spain and Australia.

"The official guest state is different from the host country. There is no restriction on the scale of the exhibition, the exhibition is more flexible, but the requirements of the enterprise specifications for registration are higher." Zhang Wenxian said that as the official guest state of the current China Expo, Russia will organize nearly 150 enterprises to participate in the exhibition. The exhibition industry covers nine fields: industry, services, high-tech, energy saving, environmental protection, machinery, construction, consumer goods, food and agricultural products. According to the briefing, the China Expo will provide a multilingual free spanlation service for exhibitors and merchants to participate in the exhibition. It will meet the docking needs of Chinese and foreign enterprises through many docking modes such as point to point docking, free pairing, on-site promotion and business inspection.

In addition to the expansion of overseas pavilions and the increasing participation of financial institutions, it is also a highlight of this session. It is reported that the number of guarantee enterprises participating in the Eighth China Expo has doubled. Docking negotiations are not only trade butt, but also increase the docking of finance, for example, the 100 billion will be carried out in the current China Expo. In addition, there are special activities for the spanformation and upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises, the holding of a number of private equity financing or IP O financing activities, the public technology forum for SME quality assurance, and the training of private entrepreneurs' quality.

Geographic depth

Thailand serves as the host country, Japan's exhibition area doubled.

At the current China Expo, Thailand, as the guest host country of the China Expo, will set up the Thailand National Pavilion on the theme of "green development and environment friendly coexistence". It will organize more than 200 enterprises to participate in the exhibition, with an exhibition area of more than 10 thousand square meters. It is reported that the Thailand National Pavilion will set up a special area such as the king area, the Thailand landmark area, the enterprise exhibition area, the movie media area, the negotiation area and so on, and comprehensively promote the Thailand products and customs.

It is noteworthy that the size of the Japanese exhibition area has more than doubled. Japan's recruitment agency said that this shows that Japanese enterprises want to make full use of the platform of China Expo to display their confidence in Japan after the earthquake. The small and Medium Enterprises Bureau said that it thought that the participating enterprises in Japan would be reduced by the earthquake. As a result, the scale of the exhibition area in Japan doubled, and the South Korean exhibition area expanded by 1/3 over last year. In a group exhibition, Japan's trade promotion organization said that the Expo will be an important platform for Japanese enterprises to establish confidence in the Chinese market after the earthquake.

Vachira Exco, director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Thailand SME Promotion Bureau, introduced Thailand's preparations for participating in the current China Expo. Thailand's participation in the exhibition concept is to advocate a green and sustainable lifestyle. It will bring together activities that highlight Thailand's image and reflect Thai lifestyle, and create an activity center for "shopping, visiting and tasting". At present, Thailand has organized 194 small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in the exhibition, involving food and beverage, cosmetics, health products, tourism, culture and other fields.

"This Expo will bring opportunities for Thailand SMEs to invest in China. It is estimated that SMEs in Thailand can achieve a commercial partnership of not less than 600 pairs, with a total trade volume of not less than 450 million baht (about 95 million 760 thousand yuan)", said the Thailand SME Promotion Bureau Foreign Affairs Bureau, La Exco.