Despite the COVID-19 pandemic raging globally, the third China International Import Expo (CIIE) has sealed higher deals than the previous event, official data showed on Nov 10. The third CIIE, which concluded in Shanghai on Oct 10, saw deals reached for intended one-year purchases of goods and services totaling $72.62 billion, up 2.1 percent from the last expo, Sun Chenghai, deputy director of the CIIE Bureau, told a press conference. This follows $57.83 billion of intended deals inked at the inaugural expo in 2018, and $71.13 billion worth of tentative deals at the second expo last year. Though restrictions were in place due to virus containment, this year's CIIE had an exhibition area of 360,000 square meters, almost 30,000 square meters larger than last year's event. Nearly 400,000 visitors from across the world signed up for the event, Sun said. Nearly 80 percent of the world's top 500 companies and industry leaders that participated in previous expos returned to Shanghai this year, he added, noting that up to 411 new products, technologies and services were launched at the 3rd CIIE.
Ashley Zhao, Shuaiyu's export sales manager, was talking to a sales executive of Damon-Group that designs an integrated system for intelligent warehousing. Damon Technology Group Co., Ltd. is a scientific and technological innovation enterprise in the whole industry chain of intelligent logistics equipment, and has long been committed to the research and development and application of intelligent logistics technology, which will benefit more enterprises with faster and more efficient intelligent logistics technology. ‘ CIIE's exhibitors brought the latest and most advanced systems in the world, and face-to-face communication can allow us to keep up with the trend, solve the problems of enterprise warehousing and logistics management in a more convenient way, improve the operational efficiency of enterprises and reduce the flow cost of goods.’, Ashley Zhao said.
The National Exhibition and Convention Center at night, the five-day CIIE was held here.