In the just concluded 2021 EAEF Economic & Trade Cooperation Expo and China (Shaanxi) Import & Export Commodities Exhibition, the import and export projects represented by new business forms and new materials became one of the highlights. The guests and scholars generally believed that the splendid import and export exhibits and their derivative effects will vigorously promote the linkage between the high-quality resources in the east and the market in the west, and better serve Shaanxi to build a new development pattern of dual circulation.

Super specification and magnificent exhibition zones

It is reported that the 2021 EAEF IMP & EXP Expo actively introduced the Fortune Global 500 and China’s Top 500 Chinese Companies and international pavilions. It opened at the same time and the same place as the Euro-Asia Economic Forum for the first time as the first large-scale import and export comprehensive trade exhibition in Western China with the theme of serving the “Belt and Road” economic and trade cooperation. The intelligent and convenient “online cloud exhibition” system platform was opened for the first time to display exhibitors’ power in an all-round way, and the visitors registered with one click to realize the cloud interaction between exhibitors and visitors. It was also presented in the form of “1 plus 6 plus N” exhibition zones for the first time.

The reporter learned at Hall 4 of Xi’an International Convention & Exhibition Center that 169 enterprises were organized in the Hall, including 69 enterprises in Shaanxi and 100 enterprises in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai and Jiangsu. The 504 booths were orderly divided into eight exhibition zones of hardware and machinery, new business forms of foreign trade (cross-border e-commerce and foreign trade comprehensive services), new materials, chip and electronic semiconductor, import and export consumer goods, furniture exhibition area, e-commerce live broadcast and agro-product geographical indications.

International pavilions 

High-quality “Circle of Friends” among exhibitors 

The person in charge of the Expo said that this event was quite an export-oriented one, and the proportion of import and export enterprises and products reached more than 90% of the total exhibitors and products. “To specific, the foreign trade export enterprises from Zhejiang and Guangdong participated in a concentrated manner, and the innovative elements of the enterprises were unusually brilliant, involving multiple projects in the fields of comprehensive foreign trade services, cross-border e-commerce, semiconductor chips, electronic components, robots, photovoltaic, medicine, characteristic agricultural products and so on.” Yang Hancheng, President of Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce in Ningbo, and one of the important sponsors and participants of the Expo, said that there were many eye-catching projects of new business forms of foreign trade and new materials in the Expo, and in the ten simultaneous trade promotion sub-activities, exhibitors and visitors gathered to build a “circle of friends”, which laid a good foundation for “strengthening and supplementing the chain” of Shaanxi equipment manufacturing and automobile industry, and were of far-reaching significance for the future industrial cooperation between Shaanxi and coastal export-oriented processing trade. “As a ‘foreign trader’ with working experience of more than 20 years, I deeply feel that with the help of a good political, business and academic docking platform such as the EAEF IMP & EXP Expo, Shaanxi’s open economy will develop better and faster.”

On-sight bulk purchase

“At the 2021 EAEF Economic & Trade Cooperation Expo and China (Shaanxi) Import & Export Commodities Exhibition, we negotiated and reached cooperation intentions with a number of foreign customers,” elaborated by Wu Zhanhua, head of Xi’an Ownace Trading Co., Ltd. He told the reporter what the enterprise gained in this Expo, including commercial vehicle purchase orders from Sri Lankan and African customers, and intention of strategic import cooperation of manganese, zinc, gold and other minerals. In addition, through the platform, Xi’an Ownace Trading Co., Ltd has also gained a large number of long-term customers and opened up a new international market. The person in charge of the company said that they would take advantage of the opportunity of the EAEF IMP & EXP Expo, follow the national development strategy, constantly strive to be an explorer, organizer and leader of innovative development, further expand business channels and contribute to Xi’an’s foreign trade.

Promising the “Belt and Road” Initiative

The reporter learned from the Expo that Shaanxi’s export-oriented economy has developed rapidly in recent years. From January to September this year, the province’s import and export volume increased by 26%, and the total amount is expected to exceed 400 billion yuan this year. At the same time, the province also focuses on the construction of export-oriented processing trade transfer parks, as well as the innovation of new business forms and models of foreign trade, so as to promote the industrial supply chain. In this Expo, many foreign trade enterprises expressed the willing to carry out extensive exchanges with enterprises in Shaanxi, share manufacturing, technology, market, capital, talents and other resources, actively participate in the development of Shaanxi, and jointly promote the Euro-Asia Economic Forum to become an important platform for the “Belt and Road” opening strategy.