The 9th China International Import Expo opened today in Shanghai. The opening ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. this morning at the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center. The three highlights of this year's Expo are worth paying attention to. Highlight 1: Reinvent the scale and expand the “circle of friends” of the Hi-Tech Expo. The scale of this year's CIIE reached a new high: 4,142 overseas companies participated in the exhibition, the highest number ever. Among them, nearly 200 “Quanqinsheng” participated in the 9th edition of the Expo, and more than 2,000 new-face companies participated in the exhibition for the first time. The “circle of friends” continues to expand, which is a vivid footnote for global companies to vote with their feet. Highlight 2: The number of debut products reached a record high, and the number of debut products reached a record high in history. There were more than 480 representative exhibits at this year's CIIE, which were the first in the world, the first in Asia, and the first in China, and the number reached a record high. Frontier technological achievements were showcased, covering fields such as artificial intelligence, healthcare, and old-age services, showing the latest direction of global industrial innovation and development. Highlight 3: Promote cooperation, forge global open consensus, forge global open consensus. Today, the 9th Hongqiao International Economic Forum will officially open. The main forum and 23 sub-forums will be held. It is particularly noteworthy that this year's forum will release the “Export to China Capacity Development Report” for the first time. This report focuses on sharing the Chinese market and aims to help more countries, especially countries in the global South, enhance their export capacity to China.

The 9th China International Import Expo opened today in Shanghai. The opening ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. this morning at the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center. The three highlights of this year's Expo are worth paying attention to. Highlight 1: Reinvent the scale and expand the “circle of friends” of the Hi-Tech Expo. The scale of this year's CIIE reached a new high: 4,142 overseas companies participated in the exhibition, the highest number ever. Among them, nearly 200 “Quanqinsheng” participated in the 9th edition of the Expo, and more than 2,000 new-face companies participated in the exhibition for the first time. The “circle of friends” continues to expand, which is a vivid footnote for global companies to vote with their feet. Highlight 2: The number of debut products reached a record high, and the number of debut products reached a record high in history. There were more than 480 representative exhibits at this year's CIIE, which were the first in the world, the first in Asia, and the first in China, and the number reached a record high. Frontier technological achievements were showcased, covering fields such as artificial intelligence, healthcare, and old-age services, showing the latest direction of global industrial innovation and development. Highlight 3: Promote cooperation, forge global open consensus, forge global open consensus. Today, the 9th Hongqiao International Economic Forum will officially open. The main forum and 23 sub-forums will be held. It is particularly noteworthy that this year's forum will release the “Export to China Capacity Development Report” for the first time. This report focuses on sharing the Chinese market and aims to help more countries, especially countries in the global South, enhance their export capacity to China.