Our reporter Suo Hanxue reports from Beijing.
The first China International ** Chain Promotion Expo (hereinafter referred to as the "Chain Expo") will be held in Beijing from November 28 to December 2, 2023. This is the world's first national exhibition with the theme of **chain.
The reporter of China Business News learned that a large number of countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road" are in the upstream of the international chain, providing raw materials and primary products to the countries in the center of the chain, so these countries are full of enthusiasm for the holding of this exhibition.
From a global perspective, there are three central clusters of the first chain, namely North America led by the United States, Europe led by Germany, and Asia led by China, Japan and South Korea.
Lin Shunjie, chairman of China Exhibition Group, said a few days ago, "If you look at the countries that jointly build the 'Belt and Road' as a group, in terms of enthusiasm and enthusiasm for participating in the Chain Expo, it is not inferior to other first-class chain centers and the world's three largest chain centers." ”
This time, the number of exhibitors from the first chain countries accounted for nearly half of the total number of overseas exhibitors. Lin Shunjie said.
It is understood that the first chain expo as an open international cooperation platform, caused a warm response in American enterprises, the number of American exhibitors far exceeded expectations, accounting for 20% of the total number of overseas exhibitors, 5 chain 1 exhibition area have American companies exhibiting, Amazon, ExxonMobil, Apple, FedEx, Tesla, General Healthcare, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Honeywell and a number of Fortune 500 and multinational companies have sent senior representatives to participate in the meeting. In addition, many American companies have taken the platform of the Chain Expo as a product launch position, innovation position, and cooperation position, and have demonstrated a series of new products, technologies and services.
Over the past decade, the Belt and Road Initiative has been transformed from concept to action and has become a major practical platform for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The Chain Expo provides an important window for the "Belt and Road" countries to display the advantages of the industrial chain, and also provides an effective platform for the enterprises of the "Belt and Road" countries to integrate into the global industrial chain, fully demonstrating openness and inclusiveness.
It is understood that the exhibitors of the first Chain Expo involve 55 countries and regions, including nearly 40 "Belt and Road" countries, and the number of exhibitors in the countries accounted for nearly half of the number of overseas exhibitors. The intelligent vehicle chain, clean energy chain, and green agriculture chain are the focus of the country's attention.
As a responsible major country, China is not only the beneficiary and maintainer of the integrated development of the global chain, but also the explorer and builder of the new ecology of the global chain, and plays a pivotal role in the global manufacturing and chain system.
Since the beginning of this year, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade has received more than 100 senior executives of multinational companies to visit China, and all of them are generally optimistic about the Chinese market and relevant enterprises will increase investment in China. This shows that the "magnetic attraction" of the Chinese market to the prosperity of foreign investment is constantly increasing.
China has actively put forward China's plan to enhance the resilience of the global industrial chain.
Since 2014, Chairman ** has put forward important initiatives on many international occasions to maintain the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain. In 2022, China held the rotating presidency of the BRICS and promoted the BRICS countries to launch the initiative to strengthen cooperation in the first chain, and put forward 12 specific measures to promote the interconnection of industrial chains. Last year, during the International Forum on Industrial Chain Resilience and Stability, China and six other countries jointly launched the International Cooperation Initiative on Industrial Chain Resilience and Stability, calling on all countries to build a more equal, inclusive and constructive industrial chain partnership. In September this year, Premier Li Qiang proposed to hold the 10+3 Industrial Chain Docking Conference at the 26th ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea Leaders' Meeting to promote the construction of a more stable, smooth and comparative advantage regional industrial chain system.
**At the APEC Economic Leaders' Informal Meeting held on November 17, the Chairman once again emphasized maintaining the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain. China's business community is deeply encouraged and excited, and many enterprises have expressed that they will take practical actions to deepen the cooperation of the industrial chain and contribute to the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain. Zhang Shaogang, vice president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said.