Foreign investors continue to be optimistic about China's market, and China is still the best supply chain partner

The 2nd China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo (hereinafter referred to as "Chain Expo") will be held at Shunyi Hall of China International Exhibition Center in Beijing from November 26 to November 30. On October 28, The State Council held a press conference to introduce the preparations for the second China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo.

First, there is a higher level of internationalization. Since the beginning of this year, with the strong support of relevant departments and Chinese embassies and consulates abroad, CCPI has held more than 60 roadshow activities at home and abroad, inviting 393 counterpart business associations around the world, foreign business associations in China and Fortune 500 enterprises to participate in the exhibition. Up to now, the proportion of foreign exhibitors has increased from 26% in the first session to 32% in this session, and there are nearly 70 participating countries, among which European and American exhibitors account for 50% of foreign exhibitors; The world's top 500 and industry leading enterprises accounted for more than 60% of the exhibitors. Compared with the first edition, the World's top 500, China's top 500 and China's top 500 private enterprises increased by 42%, 46% and 70% respectively. Political, business and academic guests from more than 100 countries and international organizations are expected to participate in the exhibition. At present, more than 30 countries, international and regional international organizations, as well as more than 50 foreign business associations from Japan, the United Kingdom and other world-renowned enterprises have confirmed to organize delegations to discuss and exchange, and this number will continue to increase in the future.

Second, there is a greater degree of specialization. The second chain Expo will focus on the display of new products, new technologies, new processes, new materials of each chain, China Communications Group, Corning, Nike, etc. for the first time to show its whole industry chain layout and ecology, Maersk, Sumitomo Electric, strong brain technology, etc. will debut more than 70 products, the number will continue to grow. Without leaving the Chain Expo, you can see all the cutting-edge trends and latest scientific and technological achievements of relevant industries in the world. In addition, the second Chain Expo will innovate the release of the Global Supply Chain Promotion Report 2024, and the world's first release of the "Global Supply chain Promotion Index" and "Global Supply Chain Connectivity Index" two important indexes.

Third, the green standards are stricter. The second Chain Expo implements the national "double carbon" development strategy and implements the "green, environmental protection and sustainable" exhibition concept. Highlighting the green exhibition, the linkage plan of "green construction, green operation, green catering, green logistics, green promotion" has been developed, the energy consumption of the venue has been upgraded, and the low-carbon exhibition operation chain of "circular display and return to zero" has been formed. Green exhibition requirements, exhibitors in the booth construction implementation of green standards, the use of environmentally friendly materials, recyclable, to achieve simple construction, modular structure, component standardization, design reduction, during the exhibition will be held green booth selection; Hope green exhibition, initiative to reduce the issuance of paper materials, encourage green travel, advocate green catering, the implementation of CD and zero plastic action.

In addition, for "there are more foreign enterprises participating in the chain Expo, how do they view the Chinese market?" In this question, Zhang Shaogang said that recently, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade conducted a survey of more than 400 key foreign-funded enterprises, respectively, 64.9% and 66.6% of the surveyed enterprises believe that the foreign investment related policies issued by the central and local governments have played a good supporting effect, and generally expressed the determination of the Chinese government to expand the high-level opening up. The proportion of overseas exhibitors in this year's chain Expo reached 32%, more than last year, of which American enterprises ranked first, and the number of European-funded and Japanese-funded enterprises also greatly exceeded the first. This fully shows that foreign investors continue to be optimistic about the Chinese market, and China is still their best supply chain partner in the global allocation of resources.

Source: 北青网