On the afternoon of June 9, Press Conference for 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (hereinafter referred to as "CIFTIS") was held in the Press Conference Hall of the Information Office of Beijing Municipality. Yan Ligang, Director of Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau, Wang Jiequn, Deputy Minister of Beijing Municipal Committee Propaganda Department, Wang Yue, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Wang Ying, Deputy Director of Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration, Gao Yunchao, Deputy Director of Beijing BODA, and Wang Wei, level-1 inspector of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, attended the Conference and answered questions from reporters.
In 2012, the Ministry of Commerce and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, upon the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, jointly hosted the China (Beijing) International Fair for Trade in Services, and in 2019, it was renamed the China International Fair for Trade in Services. In 2020, the China International Fair for Trade in Services was renamed to "CIFTIS" for short. In recent years, CIFTIS has emerged as the largest comprehensive exhibition in service trade nationally and the leading exhibition in service trade domestically. CIFTIS, China Import and Export Fair and China International Import Expo serve as three major exhibitions open to the outside world in China.
Yan Ligang, Deputy Director of 2020 CIFTIS Beijing Municipal Organizing and Service Guarantee Leading Group, and Director of Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau, introduced the overall arrangement, preparatory work and highlights of the 2020 CIFTIS.
The 2020 CIFTIS will be held in China National Convention Center and surrounding venues in early September. In response to COVID-19 pandemic in a scientific and effective manner, and adapting to the development trend "from physical to virtual, from offline to online" of the convention and exhibition industry, the 2020 CIFTIS will be organized in a form of "offline + online". Currently, it is prepared according to three schemes: (1) If the COVID-19 pandemic can be effectively controlled, it will be held in an "offline-centered, online-supplemented" mode. (2) If the overseas pandemic prevention and control are far from optimistic, it will be held by "online + offline". According to the pandemic level, the offline exhibitions mainly target at exhibitors in low-risk areas at home and abroad, while overseas guests and exhibitors who are unable to arrive at the scene will join an online exhibition. (3) If the domestic and foreign epidemic prevention and control still remain serious, it will only be held online in accordance with the general requirements for national epidemic prevention and control.
2020 CIFTIS, themed with "Worldwide Services, Shared Benefits", covers 7 types of activities: (1) Key events, including the Global Trade in Services Summit. The summit will invite important guests from home and abroad to give speeches on the rules, orders and much-talked-about topics of international service trade, and develop a consensus on the development of global service trade. (2) Summit forums, including "New Trends in Open Development of Service Trade", "Trends and Frontiers of Digital Trade Development" and "Service Trade Facilitation from the Perspective of Multinational Corporations", and inviting representatives of relevant international organizations and national government agencies, and well-known guests from domestic and foreign industry-university-research circles for discussions and exchanges. (3) Industry conferences and professional forums. Relevant international organizations and institutions, overseas countries and regions, national ministries and commissions, domestic provinces, regions and cities, domestic and foreign business associations, well-known enterprises, etc., centering on topics such as frontier trends in service trade, innovative development, and international cooperation, hold industry conferences and professional forums. In addition, there are negotiating talks, exhibitions, results releases, supporting activities, etc.
2020 CIFTIS, taking "first-class exhibition" as its goal, will realize three major innovations. (1) To establish a new "1+N" exhibition system. "1" refers to the comprehensive exhibition area, highlighting the development achievements of China's service industry and service trade, the smart application of global service trade in 5G, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other cutting-edge technologies, as well as the latest products, the latest technologies and Chinese solutions for epidemic prevention at home and abroad, etc.; "N" refers to the creation of N industry topics, cultural trade, tourism services, financial services, winter sports, service robots, 5G communication and information services, etc. will be unveiled. (2) To form a new mode of "offline + online". Build a digital CIFTIS platform, thus creating a "cloud CIFTIS" according to COVID-19 pandemic and participation demands. Provide more opportunities for exhibitors by establishing exclusive pages, building virtual booths, live broadcasting offline events, and creating virtual meeting rooms; provide convenience for exhibitors to accurately match and conduct negotiations through online reservation for offline events and the establishment of virtual negotiation rooms; set up an online publishing hall to carry out online publishing activities. (3) To launch a variety of supporting activities. Organize evening and off-site activities in an innovative manner to further enhance the effectiveness of the exhibition. In terms of evening activities, themed nights, business salons, dinner and cocktail parties and cultural performances, scientific and technological light shows, gourmet business parties, etc. are held in China National Convention Center and surrounding indoor and outdoor venues to provide convenience for exhibitors to carry out relaxing evening business exchanges; for off-site activities, consumption resources and routes of science, technology and culture tourism with Beijing characteristics are recommended to provide exhibitors with diversified choices for in-depth experience of the capital's new image, new technologies, and new services.
At present, with regard to exhibitions of 2020 CIFTIS, the exhibition layout and the design of temporary outdoor venues have been preliminarily formed. The Comprehensive Exhibition Area for Service Trade is located on the first floor of China National Convention Center, including China's Service Trade Achievement Exhibition, Public Health and Epidemic Prevention Area, International Enterprise Exhibition Area, and Top-level Exhibition of the 12 Major Fields in Service Industry. The Special Exhibition on Tourism Service is set up on the ground floor of China National Convention Center. Temporary outdoor venues set up national, provincial and municipal exhibitions, as well as exhibition areas such as cultural trade, financial services, winter sports, education services, sports services, service robots, and 5G communication and information services. In terms of forum negotiations and other activities, centering on the twelve major areas of service trade, and in combination with public health and epidemic prevention, digital services, winter sports and other frontier hotspots, 116 forum negotiation activities have been initially determined. In addition, small, sophisticated and diverse evening events such as theme nights will be held; new product launch activities will be organized, during which multiple well-known enterprises will release new technologies, new products and new achievements. In terms of investment and exhibition introduction and market development, the COVID-19 pandemic will be kept tracking and pre-invitation for relevant institutions, guests and merchants at home and abroad carried out. At present, there are already 30 international organizations, embassies in China, and overseas business associations and institutions, who have initially expressed their intention to organize exhibitions; multiple international well-known enterprises have initially determined to hold exhibitions; Shanghai Municipality, as the guest province, will participate in 2020 CIFTIS. In the near future, it will also openly solicit sponsors, investors, exhibitors, meeting organizers, sponsorship agencies, etc. nationally.
