President Xi Jinping sent a letter to the 6th China International Import Expo (CIIE), stating that he hoped the Expo would accelerate and enhance its function as a window for building a new development pattern, providing new opportunities for the world with China's new development; give full play to its role as a platform for promoting a high level of openness, so as to make China's large market a large market shared by the world; and better provide globally shared international public goods and services, helping to push forward the construction of an open world economy, and letting the cooperation and win-win situation benefit the world. Win-Win Co-operation for the Benefit of the World.
At this year's Fair, exhibitors' new products, new technologies and new services were on display, and buyers had in-depth exchanges and negotiations and carried out practical cooperation. Relying on the advantages of China's big market, the Fair played the functions of a platform for international purchasing, investment promotion, humanistic exchanges and openness and co-operation, and made positive contributions to accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and promoting the development of the world economy.
Expanding Quality Supply and Promoting Consumption Upgrade
High-quality corn from Brazil and South Africa, high-quality wheat from Kazakhstan, rice from Cambodia and Thailand, and famous brand wines from France, Italy and other traditionally advantageous production areas ...... At this year's Expo, COFCO's procurement list is particularly rich.
Exhibitors in the domestic trade and distribution enterprises continue to expand the "shopping cart", more "tip of the tongue delicious" to the people around.
"In recent years, Chinese consumers' food consumption demand continues to nutritional, healthy, leisure direction change, nutrition and health, high value-added, good value for money products are more popular, in line with the consumer trend, we actively expand the import of high-quality food." Yu Wei, a member of the party group and deputy general manager of COFCO, introduced that COFCO has participated in the Fair for six consecutive years, purchasing major agricultural products and delicacies from all over the world, such as grains, meats, wines and nuts, from global suppliers, and continuously enriching the tables of Chinese consumers.
In the past few days, the staff of the purchasing team of Boxmart has been busy, carefully selecting all kinds of commodities, covering different varieties such as mother and baby, health and wellness, and beverages, so that consumers can buy rich and high-quality imported commodities without leaving the country.
Hou Yi, CEO of Box Office (China) Co., Ltd, introduced that Box Office had achieved the goal of "global purchase" in the previous five sessions of the Fair. This year, through the global supply chain system of Box Horse, the company will promote the procurement of high-quality goods at the origin, overseas processing and other modes of rapid landing, to ensure that the goods are of high quality and low price, and at the same time, to better meet the needs of Chinese consumers.
At this year's Expo, in addition to building a 300-square-metre "online outlet" immersive experience pavilion, Vipshop also sent a 100-strong business procurement team to participate in the conference, with consumer goods such as apparel, shoes and bags, sports and leisure, beauty and skincare, home appliances and nutritional health care as its key areas of focus. During the conference, Vipshop's APP launched a special "Fair on the Cloud", joining hands with many internationally renowned brands to bring nearly 100,000 items at better prices to consumers.
"We hope to find more opportunities to cooperate with excellent brands through the Fair, bring consumers better goods and services, and help upgrade consumption." The relevant person in charge of Vipshop said.
Strengthening Innovation and Co-operation Enhancing Development Momentum
At this year's Fair, China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed import contracts and agreements with 22 global suppliers, and its "shopping cart" is full of technology.
"The Fair provides a good platform for us to carry out technical cooperation and innovation collaboration with global partners. This year, we signed an agreement with BASF to launch China's first 10,000-cubic metre CO2-to-syngas technology, which will further promote the development of low-carbon technologies and the use of offshore natural gas resources." said Li Yong, general manager of CNOOC. Li Yong, general manager of CNOOC, said.
During this year's Fair, the central enterprise trading group procured new equipment, introduced new technologies and built new platforms from leading international enterprises to help them innovate and develop.
Rongtong Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. actively broadened market channels and carried out medical equipment procurement from Olympus and other pharmaceutical and equipment enterprises. "Cooperating with internationally renowned pharmaceutical and equipment enterprises not only equips our member hospitals with advanced medical equipment, but also helps the company cultivate its innovation capability, promote the integrated development of the supply chain of the precision medical industry chain, and expand the application scenarios of digital technology." said Li Xiaolong, deputy general manager of China Rongtong Healthcare Group and chairman of Rongtong Pharmaceutical Co.
Shanghai Electric and Johnson Controls to build a joint laboratory, integrating the advantages and resources of the two sides in the field of intelligent buildings, intelligent manufacturing and other areas, to promote synergistic innovation in key areas; a number of companies under the CNNC Group signed cooperation agreements with France's PharmaTech, Westinghouse, etc., to explore the promotion of innovative development of nuclear science and technology industry in the global context ...... from signing From cooperation to model innovation, from technology sharing to resource integration, using the platform of the Fair well, enterprises are full of innovative kinetic energy.
Lu Shianjian, director of the Legal and Commercial Department of the State Power Investment Group (SPIG), introduced that the company has participated in the Fair for six consecutive years to purchase and carry out international cooperation in the fields of clean and green development and supply chain security. This year, the State Power Investment units and 15 well-known international enterprises signed 17 cooperation agreements, cooperation areas covering nuclear fuel components, coal, technology and equipment, as well as engineering machinery and so on.
Lu Shianjian said, to participate in the Fair as an opportunity, the company will accelerate the deployment of the innovation chain around the industrial chain, the layout of the industrial chain around the innovation chain, and increase efforts to promote advanced technology landing and innovation results, better towards high-quality development.
Introducing advanced technology to promote transformation and upgrading
On the opening day of the Fair, Zhenkunxing Industrial Supermarket Shanghai Co., Ltd. signed a purchase order with the exhibitor Dow Group, becoming the "first single" of the Shanghai delegation.
"We will take advantage of the Fair to join hands with global suppliers, select high-quality brands at home and abroad, continue to optimise the upstream supply system, drive more global trade partners to China, and at the same time, demonstrate the digital service capability of China's industrial supply chain and promote industrial products to the sea." Chen Long, Chairman and CEO of Zhenkunxing, said.
At Caterpillar's booth in the technical equipment section of the Fair, buyers who came to visit gathered in front of the gas generator set for a lively discussion. Feng Tao, general manager of Jiangsu CCCC New Energy Power Equipment Co., Ltd, talked about these equipment at length: "At the 2019 Expo, we signed a contract with Caterpillar's Mannheim, Germany, for the purchase of gas power generation equipment, which will help upgrade the company's production. This year, we are also looking forward to reaching new cooperation results."
Feng Tao introduced that the advanced gas power generation equipment procured by the company has outstanding performance in terms of productivity and stability, and is used in the company's overseas projects as well as put into domestic biogas power generation projects. "We actively learn from our industry partners about manufacturing experience and understand industry trends."
With the help of the Fair, domestic buyers actively introduced high-quality products, advanced technology and services to promote the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.
Brazilian poultry meat, Uruguayan grass-fed beef ...... in front of the booth, some domestic food business buyers stopped to exchange. Deer You, executive deputy general manager of Youyou Foods Co Ltd, said that every year at the Fair, he communicates and negotiates with exhibitors of meat raw materials from Brazil, Russia and other places, and he is impressed by the exhibitors' level of control over food quality from the front-end of selection and breeding, to the later processing and production. "In addition to purchasing raw materials, we also actively cooperate with international advanced enterprises in-depth research and development." Deer Tour said.
On 6 November, Guangzhou Enmax Biotechnology Co Ltd signed a contract with Boehringer Ingelheim (China) Biopharmaceuticals. For new drug R&D enterprises, the Fair is an important platform to meet more partners and transform and upgrade research results. "Boehringer Ingelheim is a well-known German pharmaceutical company that can provide us with personalised, one-stop services to ensure the development and supply of biopharmaceuticals throughout their life cycle, from R&D to commercialisation." Liu Yingfang, founder of Enmax Bio, said.
Increased cooperation Enhanced supply chain resilience
At this year's Fair, the booth of Yami, a snack import brand located in the Food and Agricultural Products Zone, was bustling with activity, with four snack walls about 5.6 metres high attracting many domestic distributors. Products such as onion rings from Thailand, wafer rolls from Indonesia and dried apricots without seeds from Turkey attracted much attention.
This year, Laiyi's Yami import brand brought nearly 50 exhibits, of which more than 90 per cent were from countries that have jointly built the "Belt and Road". As a member of the Shanghai delegation's purchasing alliance, Laiyifen, which has been participating in the fair for six consecutive years, will continue to contact overseas exhibitors and suppliers to strengthen its international purchasing efforts.
"The Fair has become an important stage for enterprises' globalisation strategy layout. We will continue to explore the international market and look for more global high-quality supply chain partners, and will strengthen product innovation and brand communication to better meet the needs of global consumers." Shi Yonglei, Founder and Chairman of Laiyi, said.
"In the last session, our annual intended procurement volume was US$60 million, and we ended up completing an annual turnover of over US$100 million. There is a lot of room for us to co-operate with Thailand's Sigung Group's rubber business." Zhou Jun, chairman of Zhejiang International Trade Group Supply Chain Co., Ltd, said that as the main import platform under Zhejiang International Trade Group, they are making every effort to build an import supply chain integrated service platform with high specialisation, strong resource integration capability and national influence.
Cultivating Green Concepts and Facilitating Low-Carbon Development
The proportion of sustainable materials up to 63% of the new tyres, new energy-saving pump motors, new energy vehicles ...... in the current Fair pavilion, green low-carbon elements can be seen everywhere, exhibitors from around the world to bring a number of green products, energy-saving solutions. Through this open and co-operative platform of the Fair, domestic and foreign enterprises are engaged in supply and procurement docking, exchanges and mutual learning, and constantly enhance the momentum of green development.
At this year's Fair, the signing ceremony of the trading sub-group of China Huadian Group Corporation was particularly lively. The companies belonging to China Huadian signed 8 procurement agreements with partners such as Siemens Energy Ltd, General Electric and
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The relevant person in charge of China Huadian said that the company takes the initiative to expand the import of new technologies, new products and high-end equipment, actively builds a new type of power system with new energy as the main body, strengthens the cooperation with relevant enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the global combustion engine industry chain, seeks new breakthroughs in the field of green and low-carbon development, and injects new kinetic energy for green development.
To cultivate the concept of green development, domestic enterprises are actively developing "green manufacturing". Introducing the German Bruckner film stretching production line, signing a framework agreement with Rolls-Royce for the fifth consecutive year on the purchase of engines and generator sets, and importing energy-saving and environmentally friendly equipment such as precise aeration systems....... At this year's Expo, Sumida Company Limited is expanding the introduction of green technologies and products. Yang Yongqing, party secretary and chairman of Sumida, said that in recent years, Sumida has been vigorously developing green industries such as clean energy and eco-friendly environment protection.2022 In 2022, Sumida's products with waterless printing and dyeing technology continued to receive attention from overseas markets, and were widely recognised by overseas customers, with an annual export of about
35 million US dollars.
At the Fair, Sinopec signed procurement agreements with 38 partners around the world. "The Fair is a window to build a new development pattern, a platform to promote high-level opening, and an international public product shared globally. With the platform of the Fair, SINOPEC follows the trend of green development, vigorously promotes the transformation and upgrading of its traditional business, enhances its green energy supply capacity, promotes energy saving, pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and endeavours to walk out of a green, low-carbon and high-quality development path." SINOPEC Chairman Ma Yongsheng said.
Expanding Cooperation Space and Sharing Market Opportunities
Walking into the food and agricultural products exhibition area of the Fair, a "cheese cow" stood out. "This 'cheese cow' was sculpted by 20 craftsmen in 72 hours and then cooled for 48 hours to complete the moulding." Zhang Lihong, the person in charge of the booth of the cheese brand Bao Cheese Si, introduced.
Last year, Mengniu Group's cheese company, Miaoco Lando, brought the Australian Bovis brand to the Fair. Lu Minfang, president of Mengniu Group, said, "The Fair has become a broad stage for Mengniu to communicate and learn from its counterparts in the global dairy industry. Mengniu will work with its partners to bring better products to global consumers."
The Fair is a platform for openness and cooperation. On the first day of the opening, China Sinochem Holding Corporation held a special signing activity. "Through the platform of the Fair, China Sinochem has deepened its partnership with partners from all over the world and established all-round synergistic co-operation with the upstream and downstream of the domestic industry. With the new opportunities brought by the Fair, Sinochem endeavours to develop Chinese and foreign markets, and takes practical actions to build, create, win and share with global enterprises." Yang Shihao, Deputy General Manager of Sinochem, said.
Carrie Su, General Manager of Public Service and Human Development Department of Nan Chiau Food Group (Shanghai) Co. said, "With the platform of the Fair, manufacturers can negotiate with us on the spot for co-operation."
Carrie Su introduced, "In recent years, the domestic market has been demanding higher and higher quality of baking ingredients, and producers urgently need to find better milk sources. Through the Fair, we have met many high-quality milk source producers, the cooperation 'radius' is getting bigger and bigger. At the same time, competing on the same stage with big international dairy manufacturers can also promote us to continuously improve the quality of our products."
At this year's Expo, Tmall International signed contracts with a number of overseas brands. "The new products we brought cover popular categories such as beauty and food, and through the effect of the Expo, we have increased brand awareness and enriched our supply of goods." Dong Zhenzhen, general manager of the import business department of Taotian Group, said.
At the booth of Shanghai Donghao Lansheng International Trade (Group) Co Ltd, there were a wide range of exhibits such as New Zealand wagyu beef, Australian milk and raw coffee beans. "At this year's Fair, we are cooperating with Australia's Northern Associated Meat Pty Ltd to provide one-stop supply chain services such as trade, logistics and channels." Zhang Zhong, chairman of the company, said, "We also operate two platforms, 'Doi Buy' and the Imported Commodities Exhibition and Sales Centre, which help many foreign SMEs' products enter the Chinese market quickly.
