The 8th China Beijing International High-tech Expo
is going to be held from May 23 to 27 in Beijing. The five-day
event will showcase the latest sci-tech achievements to promote
huge business opportunities brought about by cooperation through a
series of activities, exhibitions, forums and seminars on special
topics as well as sci-tech trade talks. Currently more than 40
delegations and 2,000 enterprises have registered to take part.
According to Zhou Maofei, vice secretary of the
organizing committee and head of China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade Beijing Sub-council, compared with previous
Expos, this year’s will be more innovative.
In addition to the China Economy Summit, which has
been held for two years, one of the biggest highlights will be the
1st China Recycling Economy Development Summit. A special
exhibition area on the recycling economy and technologies for
recycling energy will also be set up for the first time. The summit
will conduct multi-level discussions on how to achieve sustainable
economic development based on effective exploitation of energy and
environmental protection.
The Academicians’ Forum on China’s Sustainable
Development will also be established, inviting academicians from
the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of
Engineering to discussions on sustainable development and the
national economy in next ten years.
A series of promotion meetings on overseas
investment will also be held for the first time. Zhou said more and
more domestic enterprises have an internationalizing strategy and
are improving their competitiveness. Business officials from
foreign embassies in China, visiting overseas delegations and
domestic enterprises which have successful development experiences
overseas will be invited to introduce the investment environment,
market demands and preferential policies. Domestic enterprises that
are capable of “going out” will have face-to-face communication
with visiting delegations.
This year’s Expo will also gather eight world
bourses together for the first time. Among them, New York Stock
Exchange, NASDAQ and Singapore Exchange, South Korea KSE and London
Stock Exchange will respectively hold special seminars, introducing
domestic enterprises to overseas financing channels and overseas
listing.
As the key content of this year’s Expo, the 2005
International Telecommunication Value-added Service Providers
Promotion Meeting will be held. This is the first time for the Expo
to give such a focus to telecom value-added services.
According to Zhou, China Telecom has shown great
development potential in this area. In order to display new
technologies and business opportunities involved, the promotion
meeting aims to provide a platform for domestic and foreign service
providers, and the operators of China Telecom. The meeting will
include introduction to the latest application platform, business
opportunities brought about by 3G and the most popular telecom
value-added service both at home and abroad. It is reported that
China’s major operators including China Unicom, China Railcom and
China Netcom as well as SKT of South Korea have been confirmed to
attend.
The Pioneering China - 2005 Chinese Pioneers Summit
will also be held for the first time. It will invite China’s first
batch of pioneering entrepreneurs who have achieved success to
exchange views on how to realize sustainable growth with a backdrop
of globalization.
Compared with previous Expos, this year’s will
showcase more “made in China” hi-tech achievements. Zhongguancun
Science Park, known as China's "Silicon Valley”, will specially
display their independently developed innovative achievements.
It is reported that this year’s Expo has not only
attracted the participation of China’s coastal cities, middle and
western provinces and cities but also international attention. So
far, 41 overseas delegations have registered to take part. Most of
them are entrepreneur delegations from 20 countries lead by their
own governments or business unions. Of them, it is the first time
for delegations from Greece and some Islamic countries to join and
search for business opportunities.
Zhou disclosed that Xinjiang, together with 53 of
the country’s Development Zones, will jointly sign and set up the
Middle Asia Trade Union during the period of the Expo. The Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region delegation will hold six cooperation and
negotiation meetings as well as recruitment activities cooperating
with research institutes and universities including the CAS and
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
South Korea will organize three separate trade
missions comprising nearly 50 IT companies to take part in the
Expo. The US, Austria, UK, Argentina and the province of Taiwan
will organize 50-100 large enterprises in delegations.
Zhou believes with the participation of so many
domestic and overseas enterprises, this year’s Expo will provide
more cooperation opportunities for enterprises both at home and
abroad.
(China.org.cn by Wang Qian, May 15, 2005)