The highly anticipated third China International Import Expo (CIIE) will
be held in the coastal city of Shanghai from Nov. 5-10 as scheduled.To
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Flocking to this year's CIIE are returnees from past expos as well
as new faces, including nearly 50 Fortune 500 and industry-leading
companies, signaling a vote of confidence in China's further opening-up.
For these 2,600-odd global exhibitors, as well as some 400,000
participants at the event, this year's expo provides an opportunity to
explore China's economic vitality and learn more about its new
development blueprint. The expo promises to inject fresh impetus into a
global economy crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.As the pandemic
continues to disrupt economic activities worldwide, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted a global economic contraction of 4.4
percent for 2020, and the World Trade Organization said world
merchandise trade is expected to fall by 9.2 percent this year.
Facing "the worst crisis since the Great Depression" as the IMF
described, China has managed to restore its economy while containing the
epidemic, becoming the first major economy to achieve growth since
COVID-19 crippled the world economy.
"Big winds and storms may upset a pond, but never an ocean," said
Chinese President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the first CIIE
in 2018, comparing the Chinese economy to an ocean. His words still
resonate today.
In fact, China's rapid economic recovery amid the pandemic has not
only proved its own economic resilience, but also served as a beacon of
hope for the whole world, providing fresh business opportunities for
global enterprises, small- and medium-sized in particular, via such
platforms as the CIIE.Clementine Mwaba, a Zambian trader in honey
business, said as Zambia's huge produce yearns for more overseas
markets, the CIIE provides a platform for securing one.
"The upcoming international import expo in China works to provide
the space and opportunities for more markets for us," Mwaba said.
Over 12,000 km away, Marileidy Herrera, associate director at Cuban
import and export company CARIBEX S.A., also showed strong interests in
this year's CIIE.
"China is a growing market for our products, which have been very
well-received by the Chinese population so far," she said, adding that
her country expects to double its sales of lobsters to China by the end
of this year.
For Kenji Mizuta, president of the Japan External Trade
Organization's Shanghai Representative Office, the third CIIE will be
the largest event his organization has ever attended this year.
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