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190 Forums and Business Talks Will Be Held at the 2020 CIFTIS

2020-8-31 14:44:24

The 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services ("CIFTIS") to be held in early September in Beijing is coming soon. The 2020 CIFTIS News Briefing held on August 27 disclosed that, as of now, 190 forums and business talks will be held during the 2020 CIFTIS, including 4 summit forums, 134 industry forums and business talks, 29 theme activities of countries and regions out of China, 18 theme activities of provinces and municipalities, and 5 evening activities. The themes of the activities are closely related to the development of the times, focusing on industry hot topics and leading the development trend of trade in services.

According to Wu Lanlan, the daily work leader of the Exhibition Team of Beijing Municipal Organization and Service Guarantee Leading Group and the Party Member and Deputy Director of the CCPIT Beijing, introduced the five main characteristics of the 2020 CIFTIS as follows:

　　1. High level of the hosts

　　International organizations, governments, domestic and foreign business associations and other institutions are invited to participate in the 2020 CIFTIS. International organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, World Food Program, International Banking Federation, World Trade Center Association, World Trade Point Federation, and World Tourism Cities Federation will hold forums on topics such as intellectual property protection, food supply chain, financial technology, smart connection, creative economy, and prosperity recovery of world tourism. The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Development Research Center of the State Council, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and other relevant national departments will co-organize with the People's Government of Beijing Municipality the summit forums with the themes of "New Trends in the Open Development of Trade in Services", "Development Trends and Frontiers of Digital Trade", and "Trade in Services Facilitation from the Perspective of Multinational Companies". The Ministry of Commerce and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality will also jointly hold the China E-commerce Convention, and the CCPIT will hold professional forums on blockchain, trade in services standardization, information security and other content. In addition, more than 20 foreign embassies and chambers of commerce in China, including Finland, Uruguay, Lithuania, and Mexico will hold promotion activities; more than 10 national-level associations, such as the Publishers Association of China, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China Association for Promoting UN Procurement (CAPUNP), China Chamber of International Commerce, and China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment will hold industry conferences and special forums.

　　2. Guests with outstanding influence

　　International guests are invited to actively participate in the fair. Up to now, 20 heads of international organizations, including Hedwige, president of the International Banking Federation, Vladimir Norov, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Joachim von Amsberg, Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, as well as 10 ministerial guests, including ministers of the Ministry of Sports of Brazil, the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Education of Finland, and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Finland, as well as the Mayor of Helsinki in Finland and the Governor of the Danish Central Bank, will participate in the fair online; 25 foreign ambassadors to China, including Australia, Colombia, Ireland and Cuba have confirmed to participate in the fair on site; more than 70 executives from 43 Fortune 500 enterprises and 20 multinational companies, including Ericsson, IBM, SAP, Philips, Siemens, Schneider, and Dell, have confirmed to participate in the fair; Joseph Stiglitz, Lin Yifu, Li Daokui and other well-known economists, as well as more than 10 academicians including Wu Hequan and Chai Hongfeng have confirmed to participate in the fair. Nearly 60 heads of overseas associations and institutions including the American Chamber of Commerce in China, Canada-China Business Council, the China-Britain Business Council, and Federation of German Industries have confirmed to participate in the fair. International organizations such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Health Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Procurement Division will also send representatives to attend the fair.

3. Hot topics

　　The 2020 CIFTIS will give full play to the advantages of the platform and the leading role of innovation with the theme of "Global Services, Shared Prosperity". Activities focusing on the twelve major areas of trade in services will be held, covering 20 themes such as winter sports, cultural services, financial services, 5G communication services, education services, sports services, service robots, public health and epidemic prevention, e-commerce, environmental services, technical services, construction services, transportation services, tourism services, design services, exhibition services, intellectual property rights, and traditional Chinese medicine services. Advanced theoretical seminars will also be held, so as to build a platform for government-enterprise, industry-university, and domestic-international matchmaking, and actively promote the integration and exchange of trade in services innovation theories and advanced technologies.

Focusing on global epidemic prevention and control, nearly 20 forums on public health and epidemic prevention and how e-commerce enterprises fight against the "epidemic" will be organized in the fair; Focusing on the Winter Olympics, 17 forums on the technology-based winter Olympics, ice and snow equipment industry, and Olympic city development will be organized; Focusing on digital trade, more than 10 forums, including the Innovation and Development Forum on Digital Economy, and Innovation and Integration Forum on Global Procurement and Digital Trade, will be held; in addition, 7 forums on new infrastructure, including Zhongguancun Industrial Internet Industry Ecological Construction and Development Forum and 2020 International Engineering Management Forum, will be held.

　　4. Wide coverage of achievements

　　During the 2020 CIFTIS, a group of authoritative releases will be organized. More than 30 industry development reports, indexes and list rankings, including the Action Plan on the Recovery and Revitalization of City Tourism amid COVID-19, Report on World Tourism Recovery and Development amid COVID-19, Report on China's Enterprise Globalization, 2020 Research Report on China's Ice and Snow Industry, and 2018-2019 List of Enterprises with Innovation Headquarters in Beijing.

　　A group of alliance platforms will be formed to promote the development of the industry. More than 10 institutions will be established in the e-commerce, information, financial and other industries, including the Online Comprehensive Service Platform of Beijing Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone, the Blockchain Innovation Service Committee of the China Chamber of International Commerce, Beijing Federation of International Chamber of Commerce, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Services Platform, with a view to promoting the formation of a long-term mechanism for the development of trade in services.

　　A batch of new technology applications will be released. Currently, more than 50 enterprises and institutions have participated in the release, including 9 Fortune 500 enterprises such as General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, Canon, and Huawei; 8 multinational companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, Ricoh, Kompass, Japan Digital Holdings, Marriott Group, Standard & Poor's, and Mizuho Bank; 20 domestic industry-leading enterprises such as Baidu, NetEase, Youku, New Oriental, Tomorrow Advancing Life, and iFlytek; as well as 18 unicorns and innovative enterprises such as Meiriyouxian, VIPKID, Litchi FM, and Youkegongchang. The release content covers the application of new technologies and services in daily life, including technology-based epidemic prevention, financial security, holographic technology, artificial intelligence, smart home, virtual reality, e-commerce poverty alleviation, distance education, and image sharing.

5. Innovated exhibition mode

　　The forums, meetings and activities at the 2020 CIFTIS will be held through an online and offline combined mode, including more than 30 online meetings, more than 70 “online + offline” meetings, and nearly 100 online live streaming activities. The digital platform will provide online functions such as "video conference and live video". This can allow guests who are unable to participate in offline meetings due to the epidemic to participate in online meetings, and can also expand the spread of the CIFTIS, thus breaking through the constraints of time and space, and achieving mutual benefits and resource sharing.