Serving as Partner for Eight Consecutive Years, Integrating Exhibition and Finance
The 9th China International Import Expo will be held from November 5 to 10 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai). As a comprehensive partner of the CIIE, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has participated in and served the CIIE for eight consecutive years, relying on its overseas service network covering 69 countries and regions, leveraging its global integrated operation advantages, and focusing on key events, featured booths, financial services, supply-demand matching and on-site support to build a full-cycle service system for exhibitors and buyers. During this edition, the bank will host the 8th China-Europe Entrepreneurs Conference, undertake a sub-forum of the Hongqiao International Economic Forum, build a 1200-square-meter featured booth in the food and agricultural products exhibition area for the sixth consecutive year under the entrusted exhibition model, and exclusively sponsor key buyer sourcing events and the buyer corridor, supporting global exhibitors in exploring the Chinese market and facilitating domestic buyers in connecting with high-quality global resources through the integration of exhibition, conference, finance and services.
High-End Dialogue Platform Deepening China-Europe Financial Cooperation
The China-Europe Entrepreneurs Conference and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum sub-forum are key branded events of ICBC serving the CIIE. In April 2021, under the guidance of the Ministry of Commerce of China, ICBC jointly established the China-Europe Enterprise Alliance with outstanding enterprises from various sectors in China and Europe, and as the chair unit continues to serve as a financial bridge. To date, the alliance has nearly 150 members covering 21 countries, including over 50 Fortune Global 500 companies, and the conference has been held during the CIIE for seven consecutive years. As an official supporting event of the 9th CIIE, the entrepreneurs conference will be held on the morning of November 6 in the West Hall of the National Exhibition and Convention Center, where Chinese and European officials and business representatives will hold dialogues on key topics of China-Europe economic and trade cooperation. After the meeting, two matchmaking events will also be held: the Export to China UK-China Business Matchmaking Meeting and the China-Europe Enterprise Alliance-Shaanxi Investment and Trade Matchmaking Meeting.
Entrusted Exhibition Bringing Global Products to Facilitate Trade
Since the 4th CIIE, ICBC pioneered the model of building a featured booth in the agricultural and food products area as an entrusted exhibitor by a financial institution, and has cumulatively provided a centralized display platform for nearly 800 exhibitors from 54 countries and regions. This edition will build a 1200-square-meter featured booth in Hall 8.2 in the agricultural and food products area for the sixth consecutive year, gathering nearly 160 exhibitors from 55 countries and regions, with exhibits covering more than 1,000 kinds of high-quality global food and agricultural products. The booth will set up a BRICS country zone for the first time, focusing on the CIIE guest countries and theme countries exporting to China, and expand country coverage, with products from Panama, Costa Rica and other countries making their debut. The bank will also jointly hold key buyer sourcing events and the buyer corridor with the CIIE Bureau in the adjacent area of the booth, selecting 22 high-quality leading buyers covering food and beverage, beauty and personal care, home appliances and home furnishing, fashion trends, sports and outdoor, health and nutrition sectors, and carrying out special sourcing activities for supermarket and convenience store, e-commerce platform, and new retail channel merchants.
Upgraded Financial and Volunteer Services for Convenient Participation
In terms of financial services, ICBC released the Full Financial Solution for the 9th CIIE on the 100-day countdown to the expo, providing one-stop, full-cycle and intelligent services for exhibitors, buyers and individual customers. For exhibitors, it provides exhibition promotion, booth display, resource matching, as well as multi-currency global accounts, cross-border settlement, supply chain financing, global treasury management and other support, helping exhibits become commodities and exhibitors become investors. For buyers, it provides investment roadshows, trading group organization and registration services, builds a cross-border settlement system relying on ICBC Express Remittance and ICBC e-Instant, and launches products such as Cross-border e-Power and Cross-border e-Warehouse. For individual customers, it has deployed over 1600 ATMs and more than 3000 foreign-card POS terminals across Shanghai, supporting payment by major overseas bank cards, and provides services such as binding foreign cards domestically, ICBC Card Code Pass, and mobile banking service vehicles. On site, 430 multilingual Clover volunteers will be organized to provide consultation and guidance, and the Shanghai Branch will use the global customer intelligent service platform to improve matchmaking efficiency.