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CHITEC in Focus2006/05/20
text by Chen Nan The China Beijing International High-tech Expo (CHITEC), China’s prime annual showcase for promoting its newest and best high-tech products and for providing in-depth information about the country’s economic development will take place from May 23–27 in Beijing. The Ninth CHITEC, known as the Beijing International High-tech Industries Week when it was first launched in 1998, has grown steadily with more exhibitors and visitors with each year of its existence. With a focus this year on the country’s and Beijing’s 11th Five-Year programmes (2006–10), the Ninth CHITEC will prominently highlight many fields of endeavour such as energy savings, new materials, energy, agriculture, technology, IT and telecommunications. In an exhibition area of about 60,000 square metres, products and technologies involving proprietary innovation, the recycling economy, regional cooperation, the Olympics-related economy, and creative cultural industry will get a great deal of attention. Some of the world’s top enterprises, domestic and foreign, will feature their "best" products and high-tech products for the first time in China. The overall scale of this CHITEC experience includes seven sessions of negotiations and promotions, ten forums and conferences and three specialized communication activities. Biz Talks and Promotions Economic and trade talks at the Expo will be arranged into six specialized topics of more than ten economic and trade fairs. They include: · Talks on International Investment Projects, focusing on linking bilateral and multilateral trade and investment projects from home and overseas; · Promotion of Olympics-related Market Development; and, · Promotion of Service Access to Beijing Olympics sponsored by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad; · Promotion of Agricultural High-tech Projects, featuring in-space mutation breeding and ecological fertilizers; · Promotion of Investment and Cooperation in China's Telecom Value-Added Industry, which will provides opportunities for links between content and service providers and investors in China's transitioning telecom value-added industry; · Promotion of New Products and New Technologies in China's Informatization Construction, which aims to promote the most up-to-date technological results in e-government and e-commerce; · Introduction of Overseas Investment Environment to Chinese Enterprises, especially implementation of its "going global" strategy; and, · Promotion by Various Provinces and Municipalities, which will outline local development strategies, the investment environments, high-tech projects and services available in various provinces and municipalities. On those occasions, delegations of domestic and overseas governments and industrial and commercial circles as well as high-tech enterprises will hold face-to-face negotiations via a trading platform designed to allow China's high-tech industries to develop regional cooperative ventures and to go global. Six New Features of the Ninth CHITEC
More scope for foreign investment The Ninth CHITEC has attracted broad attention at home and abroad. Foreign participants will double that of the 2005 Expo. Delegates will represent scientific, technological and commercial circles from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Brazil, Finland， Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative regions and the Taiwan region. Top world renowned foreign and domestic enterprises will have displays at the Expo featuring their "best" products and high-tech goods for the first time in China. Enterprises such as Samsung, LG Electronics, Nokia，Panasonic and Fuji-Xerox, which used to have the most eye-catching booths at past CHITECs, will make even greater efforts to showcase their latest product lines. They will be joined by nearly 30 executives from the world's top-500 enterprises, who are influential in high-tech and related finance and modern service sectors and who will participate in the Annual Meeting of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Beijing and other CHITEC activities, surpassing the number of all previous sessions. "Going Global" Strategy The Chinese economy's effect on the world economy and the international competitiveness of Chinese enterprises in the global market have prompted CHITEC to alter its traditional emphasis on inviting and obtaining investments by domestic and overseas businessmen. It will offer a series of specialized meetings concerning the overseas investment environment and will invite commercial officials from foreign embassies in China, visiting foreign delegations and domestic enterprises, who have succeeded in overseas development, to elaborate on their local investment environments, market needs and preferential policies. The Expo will arrange for domestic enterprises with the potential to have face-to-face communications with visiting delegations on the topic of "going global." Enhancing Domestic Cooperation The Ninth CHITEC highlights regional economic cooperation and coordinated development. "The Forum on China's Regional Economic Cooperation and Development" is just one example, even though it's being held for the first time. Domestically, such back-bone high-tech enterprises as Lenovo, HiSense, Changhong, Beijing Orient and the Shougang Group (Capital Iron and Steel Corporation) will display their most recently developed and branded products with proprietary intellectual property rights. Some responsible members from authoritative governmental agencies, leaders from some provinces where regional economies are more highly developed, as well as experts, scholars and entrepreneurs will conduct discussions of development strategies for regional economies and possible development paths for new-type cities that will rely upon scientific and technological innovations. Statistics and analyses of the general situation of China's regional economic cooperation and detailed analyses of some of the successful and not so successful regional economic cooperative modes of different regional economic areas and putting forward new ideas for future development will also be given. The CHITEC exhibitions and trade talks will also provide a multifunctional platform for various provinces and municipalities to engage in international and regional communication and to promote key projects for cooperation.
From the Top: Agricultural High-tech Gets Great Attention With the release of its important policy document on building "a new socialist countryside," the central government said one of its primary objectives in the 11th Five-Year Guidelines for National Economic and Social Development (2006–10), as well as that of the National People’s Congress, is to shift its focus toward rural development, especially high-tech agricultural projects. The application of advanced agricultural technologies is expected to enhance the rural economy and improve the efficiency of agricultural production. Technologies will include agricultural bioengineering, new agricultural techniques and machinery, livestock husbandry and forestry and the latest in animal breeding and ecological fertilizer technologies. Telecommunications Value-added Industry gets Praise The Ninth CHITEC's "2006 Investing and Cooperative Biz Talks of China Telecommunication Value-added Industry" on May 26 will employ a special Biz Talk mode focused on eight specific business areas of keen interest to business professionals, including those in the SP industry. The eight key issues of the Biz Talk sessions will include valued added issues of the current development phase involving investment cooperation, channel cooperation of operators, business license cooperation, company transformations, CP cooperation, regional distribution, outsourcing of business development, and technical projects. The specialized Biz Talks will fulfils the different needs of participants and will allow enterprises with specific needs to simultaneously communicate with multiple suppliers from different sectors rapidly and efficiently, thus achieving savings in participation costs and time and vastly improving project promotions. Many large domestic and foreign investors, along with hundreds of domestic and foreign SP/CP enterprises, have registered to participate in the Biz Talks.
Bright Prospects for Olympics-related Economy With the 2008 Olympics rapidly approaching, preparations for the Games have entered a critical stage, and Olympics-related business opportunities are getting more and more attention from business circles at home and abroad. During the Ninth CHITEC, two promotions sessions will be held concerning the provision of services to the Beijing Olympics in its market development and services components. They will outline Olympics-related construction projects and the BOCOG service plan to industrial and commercial circles. These include all the market access requirements and related items for the logistics guarantees of the 2008 Beijing Olympics such as catering, testing, accommodations and costumes. "The Exhibition of Technology for a Scientific Olympics" will display the most up-to-date achievements in solving knotty problems including the applications of digital technologies concerning the Olympics. Project Quantity and Quality Hit New Highs Twenty-seven of the country's provinces or administrative regions have brought forth nearly 1,000 projects for consideration at the Ninth CHITEC, the most in the Expo’s history. Forums and Conferences CHITEC Forums are an important parts of CHITEC events. Professionals and authorities from governments, enterprises and academia will participate in various CHITEC forums and make speeches concerning technologies, economics and social development. Still, the number of forums has been reduced by two-fifths. After careful selections, the following ten topics have been chosen for special emphasis: the 11th Five-Year Programme; build a country based on innovation; regional economy; recycling economy; proprietary innovation; finance; environmental protection; energy strategies; new technologies and the creative cultural industry; and intellectual property rights protection. High-ranking government officials, responsible members of international organizations, scientists, economists and entrepreneurs influential in their respective fields both from home and abroad will be invited to deliver speeches from various angles and to conduct interactive communications so as to disseminate new ideas and concepts to provide support for the decision-making by government agencies and industrial circles. With a combination of forward-looking and practical themes, the ten forums of the Ninth CHITEC will focus on three key aspects of development. The first is 11th Five-year Programme, which is the main thread of all the activities of the present CHITEC. Concepts advocated in the plan outline topics such as developing modern agriculture, high-tech industries, giving priority to energy industries, promoting informatization, developing a recycling economy, strengthening environmental protection, emphasizing proprietary innovation and coordinated regional development. CHITEC's exhibitions will feature a large number of new accomplishments that are playing a leading role domestically or internationally in related fields, while demonstrating future trends in science and technology and guiding industrial development. The specialized forums will enhance the communication of new ideas and concepts in various areas such as industrial orientation, industrial policies, industrial development paths, and development experiences. Among the economic and trade talks, the "Promotion of Agricultural High-tech Projects," "Promotion of New Products and New Technologies in China's Informatization Construction," "Promotion of International Telecom Value-Added Service Providers," and the "Promotion by Various Provinces and Municipalities" will promote in a concentrated way the key development projects of various industries and regions during the 11th Five-year Programme to seek cooperation. The "China Economic Summit" will take as its theme the "Chinese Economy and the World during the 11th Five-year Programme," expound in an all-round way the 11th Five-year Programme, and conduct a multi-perspective and multi-layered discussion about the change in the development mode of China's economy and the relationship between the Chinese and the world economy. The ten forums will also focus on current social hot issues, such as the development of the recycling economy, effective energy savings options, the protection of the ecological environment and the building of a conservation-minded society. With the theme of "promoting the healthy and regular development of energy industries, contributing efforts to establish resource conservation and a harmonious society," the "China High-level Forum on Energy Strategy," which will be held on May 25, is composed of five special sessions including: subject reports, coal, electrical power, oil, energy conservation, decreasing industrial consumption and new energy utilization. "China High-level Forum on Recycling Economy" and the "High-level Forum on Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development" will, from different angles, discuss such specific topics as the important role of and approaches to a recycling economy in pushing ahead the structural adjustment, changing the economic development mode and taking the new industrialization path, as well as how to achieve effective utilization of resources and environmental protection in the process of building a resource-saving society. The third characteristic is innovation. To suit the trend of rapidly developing creative cultural industry, the Ninth CHITEC includes, for the first time, the creative sciences, technologies and cultural industries in its themed activities. Its "Exhibition on Creative Industries in Science, Technology and Culture" will feature achievements in such areas as media, publishing, film and video production, animated cartoons, recreational products and industrial design, which are supported by digital technologies. "The Forum on the Development of New Technology and Creative Cultural Industry" will discuss such questions as the distribution of China's creative cultural industries, creative economy, and the development of creative cities. "The Forum on Improving the Ability of Proprietary Innovation to Build a Country Based on Innovation," and "The International Forum on the Development of China's High-tech Enterprises," which are being held for the first time, will carry on both theoretical and practical discussions on such topics as building a State system based on innovation and its development path and development mode, how enterprises, as the main body of innovation, should attach importance to original innovations, push forward integrated innovations and cultivate proprietary brands. The Ninth CHITEC Ten forums include: China Economy Summit 2006 |
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