CIFTIS 2019 to Shape the New Pattern of China's Opening-Up
This year's "Two Sessions" (National People's Congress, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) sent a positive message to the world that China will deepen reform and expand opening-up. The China International Fair for Trade In Services (CIFTIS), co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the Beijing Municipality, has been running successfully for five years while becoming the leading exhibition for service industries in China and the world's largest for Trade In Services. CIFTIS 2019 will be held in Beijing from May 28 to June 1 under the theme of "Opening-up, Innovation, Intelligence and Integration".
To promote China's expanded opening-up and deepening reforms, celebrating the national character on the 70th anniversary of the nation's founding, continuing Belt and Road achievements following the second forum, and driving high-quality development of China's service industries and trade in services, CIFTIS 2019 follows the guidance of "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era", and China's new development concepts. CIFTIS will continue to implement China's opening-up strategy and emphasize exchange and cooperation in international trade in services, actively pushing for the facilitation and liberalization of global trade in service policies, building the economic power of trade in services while promoting an open world economy.
This year's CIFTIS has 5 major features:
i. Highlighting expansion of opening-up in
service industries and trade in services, contributing to
building a new pattern of comprehensive opening-up.
CIFTIS will implement China's strategy of expanding
opening-up, displaying the 68 achievements made during the
first two batches of Beijing's expansion of opening-up in
service industry and China's opening-up measures such as
free trade pilot zone, promoting Beijing's new round of
pilot policies for expansion of opening-up in the service
industries, standards of trade in service, rule-making and
system construction, advancing further opening-up and
cooperation in global trade in services and contributing to
building a community sharing the future for mankind.
ii.
Stressing internationalization and deepening international
Belt and Road cooperation on trade in services.
CIFTIS
will invite countries from along the 'Belt and Road', the 30
top countries and regions of trade in services, 14 countries
that signed trade in services agreements with China, and
international trade associations and well-known enterprises
across service industries and trade in services to
participate in the fair.
iii. Emphasizing
innovation-driven, intelligent development, integration and
improvement; leading the innovation and development of
service industries and trade in services.
CIFTIS
actively implements innovation-driven development
strategies, exhibiting new models, businesses, services, and
technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G as
applied in service field; promotes innovation achievements
in manufacturing, healthcare, and personal services, the
digitization and intelligence of service industry and trade
in services; facilitates integrated development between
service industries including the modern service industry and
advanced manufacturing, culture and tourism, and between
trade in services and service consumers.
iv. Emphasizing
trade negotiations, enabling participating enterprises to
achieve practical cooperation.
CIFTIS recognizes serving
customers as a fundamental goal, and facilitating trade
negotiations as core, gathering demands for project trade
and carrying out trade matching in advance, pushing
negotiation, with more than 100 negotiating rounds
scheduled, as trade support, and encouraging
cooperation.
v. Creating a new exhibition layout,
magnifying CIFTIS' role as a platform.
This year's
CIFTIS uses one main venue supported by multiple others for
the first time, the main venue China National Convention
Center with the neighboring Beijing International Convention
Center and Olympic Celebration Square. Other venues include
Wangfujing Business Street, Financial Street, the Central
Business District, Huilonguan and Tiantongyuan areas, and
others.
As the world economy is in slow recovery and China's economy enters a stage of high-quality development following its rapid growth, the development of trade in services faces a range of new challenges. As a state-level, international and comprehensive trading platform for trade in services, CIFTIS is important to serving national politics and economics, diplomacy and foreign trade, reform and expansion of opening up, and development, while achieving high-quality development of China's service industries and trade in services.
CIFTIS is the first
comprehensive platform specializing in world-wide Trade In
Service. The World Trade Organization (WTO), United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
are permanent supporters. CIFTIS is the only platform in the
world covering the 12 sectors of trade in services as
defined by the WTO: business services, communication
services, construction & engineering services, distribution
services, educational services, environmental services,
financial services, health & social services, tourism &
travel-related services, recreational, cultural & sports
services, transport services and other
services.