The first China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo opened in Beijing on the 28th. The theme of this year's Chain Expo is "Linking the World and Creating the Future Together", with a duration of 5 days. As the world's first national level exhibition with a supply chain theme, the first Chain Expo will promote upstream, midstream, and downstream connectivity, integration of large, medium, and small enterprises, collaboration between industry, academia, research and application, and interaction between Chinese and foreign enterprises.
The first national level exhibition with supply chain as the theme
As the world's first national level exhibition with a supply chain theme, the first Chain Expo attracted a total of 515 Chinese and foreign enterprises and institutions to participate. International exhibitors account for 26%, with American and European companies accounting for the most, accounting for 36% of the total number of international exhibitors. This year's Chain Expo will set up five major chains and supply chain service exhibition areas, including intelligent automobile chain, green agriculture chain, clean energy chain, digital technology chain, and healthy life chain.
Zhang Shaogang, Vice President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade: The first Chain Expo vertically showcases advanced technologies and products in each link of the chain, as well as future development trends, while horizontally showcasing services such as finance, logistics, and platform enterprises. 53 Fortune Global 500 companies, 57 China Top 500 companies, and a large number of "specialized, refined, unique, and new" and "hidden champions" enterprises jointly participated in the exhibition, telling the story of Sino foreign supply chain cooperation.
It is understood that this year's Chain Expo not only invites domestic and foreign enterprises to participate, but also opens up to research institutes and colleges, inviting researchers and university teachers and students to visit.
During the Chain Expo, multiple forums and supporting activities will be held
At the Global Supply Chain Innovation and Development Forum held on the 28th, more than a thousand Chinese and foreign guests, including government departments, business representatives, international organization representatives, and experts and scholars, engaged in in-depth exchanges and discussions on topics such as global supply chain cooperation. In addition, during the Chain Expo, a series of supporting activities will be held, including 6 special forums, a forum for trade promotion think tanks, and a press conference on the Global Supply Chain Promotion Report.
