Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center, the year-round display and trading platform for the China International Import Expo, will see another 130,000-square-meter space be put into use this year.
Shanghai will hold a major shopping festival in early May to further stimulate market expectations and confidence – and accelerate the development of the city as an international retailing hub, local authorities said recently.
The Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trade Center gathers more than 70,000 imported goods from more than 90 countries and regions.
The spillover effects of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) has reached far beyond Shanghai to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, which is basically the entire Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region, experts said during a recent interview with Radio Shanghai's Voice of YRD.
Sergio Lopez, the assistant to the chairman at China Dream Investment Co in South Africa, has been committed to boosting economic, trade and cultural exchanges between China and South Africa.
The government organized central SOEs to set up 99 trading groups to participate in the fifth CIIE held in Shanghai in early November.
Many eye-catching exhibits at the fifth China International Import Expo, such as sprouted coffee and one-year-old oysters, have entered the Shanghai market thanks to the Greenland Global Commodity Trading Hub, a permanent trading platform of the CIIE.
The two-day trade and investment matchmaking conference of the fifth CIIE has concluded on Monday, with accumulated intended turnover exceeding $4 billion.
