The 13th Central China Investment and Trade Exposition opens in Changsha. (Photo/Liu Bin, People's Daily)

The 13th Central China Investment and Trade Exposition opened in Changsha on May 31, 2024. Themed “Opening Up and Innovation, and the Rise of Central China”, the expo will last for three days.

As a large-scale and high-standard economic and trade event, the expo is hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, the China Federation of Industrial Economics, and the provincial governments of Hunan, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Shanxi. 

The total exhibition area of the expo exceeds 40,000 square meters. More than 120,000 visitors and over 6,400 exhibitors have registered for attendance, including over 610 foreign guests from 47 countries and regions, and more than 37,000 exhibitors and purchasers from 59 countries and regions.

 
Focusing on trade and investment, the expo aims to build a mutual benefit and win-win platform of cooperation. The six provinces in the central regions of China respectively presided over a key industrial chain investment promotion conference. Hunan, as the host province, held a conference for attracting investment in the modern petrochemical industry of the central region. Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Shanxi respectively focused on hub economy development, new materials industrial and supply chain innovation and cooperation, new energy vehicle industrial chain investment promotion, electronic information industrial chain investment promotion, and new energy industrial chain promotion.

Since 2006, the six provinces in central China have taken turns to host the expo. This year marks the first session of the third round. As a national-level comprehensive exposition focusing on investment and trade promotion, it is of critical significance in accelerating in-depth reform and high-level opening up in the central regions and promoting the rise of central China.

The working staff introduce the products. (Photo/Liu Bin, People's Daily)


At the expo. (Photo/Liu Bin, People’s Daily)


Exhibition area of Anhui Province. (Photo/Liu Bin, People’s Daily)


A working staff introduces the products. (Photo/Liu Bin, People’s Daily)


Visitors experience the exhibits. (Photo/Liu Bin, People’s Daily)

 
The low-altitude economy exhibition area of Hunan Province. (Photo/Liu Bin, People’s Daily)


At the expo. (Photo/Liu Bin, People’s Daily)

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: People's Daily