Since its establishment, the trading hub has become a spring board for many business people from countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative to enter the Chinese market.
Marel, a world-leading meat processing company, recently set up its first demonstration center in China at the Hongqiao Central Business District Bonded Logistics Center.
A delegation headed by Phuti Joyce Tsipa, consul-general of South Africa in Shanghai, visited the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center on July 20.
The hub is one year-round platform for the CIIE to help overseas companies explore the Chinese market through roadshows, negotiations, and exhibitions.
The guests learned about the center's role in helping overseas products enter the Chinese market and its future plan to become a novel platform for international trade.
A media delegation consisting of 21 journalists from 15 renowned media outlets in Honduras recently visited the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trade Center.
The sixth China International Import Expo, which will take place this November in Shanghai, started accepting registration applications from professional visitors, or buyers, on June 1.
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.