Global exhibitors rush to reserve space at this year’s import expo

AS China International Import Expo marks its 100-day countdown today, global exhibitors rush to reserve space.

The six-day expo will take place in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, as planned, and an increasing number of overseas enterprises have signed up to participate this year.

According to the organizers, more than 80 percent of the planned 360,000-square-meter area for the enterprise exhibition — the main part of the expo — has been booked, while dozens of nations and regions have confirmed their participation in the national exhibition.

Among the exhibiting companies are 260 Fortune Global 500 enterprises and industry leaders, including the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical, medical equipment and automobile companies.

The enterprise exhibition will once again feature six major exhibition zones — food and agricultural products, automobiles, technical equipment, consumer goods, medical equipment and health care — and one for trade in services.

In addition to the special areas established in previous editions, such as those for biomedicine and low-carbon energy and environmental technologies, the fifth expo will see the establishment of new special zones for sub-sectors such as the crop seed industry and artificial intelligence.