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The 10th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) will be held from May 24 to 29, 2007, in Beijing.

Following in the tradition of nine previous successful sessions, CHITEC, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Information Industry, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the State Intellectual Property Office and the Beijing Municipal Government, has become a landmark platform for high-tech enterprises and associated industries both at home and abroad to exhibit their most up-to-date scientific and technological ideas, products and services. It allows high-tech creators, businesses and governmental agencies to disseminate leading-edge ideas and concepts, to announce information about industrial policies and to engage regional and international business and cooperative relations.

The tenth session of CHITEC comes at a time of rapid and healthy development in the China's economy in general and in its high-tech industries in particular. The unique ambience and technological quality of CHITEC was created by firmly grasping the pulse of the times in the development of China’s economy and its high-tech industries and by promoting the industrialization, commercialization and the internationalization of high and new technologies. Since its inauguration in 1998, CHITEC has incorporated high-tech exhibitions, thoughtful encounters in forums, trade fairs, deal-making and specialized activities in one useful one-of-a-kind exhibition. During its first decade, CHITEC was in the forefront in bring new technologies, ideas, capital, information and human resources to Beijing, all presented in a comprehensive display. By increasing communication and fostering new relationships CHITEC has attracted broad participation and has won the admiration of government departments, sci-tech and industrial circles both from home and abroad. It has played an important role in promoting China’s economic restructuring and industrial upgrading, and it has boosted regional and international cooperation in the high-tech industrial sector.

About 532 governmental, technological and economic delegations from more than 100 countries and hundreds of high-tech multinationals attended the previous nine CHITEC sessions. People from governmental departments, high-tech industrial and financial circles of all 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, the Taiwan region and the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions gathered at CHITEC to conduct large-scale investment and promotional activities, with more than three million people, mainly from high-tech industries from home and abroad, in attendance. CHITEC has become an important window for overseas multinationals to introduce their latest high-tech products to the Chinese market and for Chinese proprietary innovation achievements to find their ways to the international market, with internationally leading high-tech products introduced by more than 10,000 high-tech enterprises and research institutes at home and abroad. The nine sessions held more than 1,000 events including high-ranking forums and specialized exchanges, with more than 3,200 people delivering speeches, including well-known scientists and economists both from home and overseas, Nobel laureates, executives from global top-500 enterprises, high-level decision-makers from world-famous financial institutions and authoritative personages from domestic government agencies. They introduced to China the world’s latest high-tech achievements and leading ideas about the new world economy. At the same time, they conveyed to the world the latest policies, plans and trends about China’s industrial development. CHITEC has fostered multi-level and wide-ranging bilateral and multilateral project docking negotiations covering such areas as domestic and foreign investment, technology trade, Olympics-related business opportunities, key urban development projects, governmental procurement and auctions of technological achievements. Altogether, 72 rounds of activities have been held, with 60,000 enterprises from home and overseas participating. According to incomplete statistics, 3,535 contracts, agreements and letters-of-intent were signed during the previous nine CHITEC sessions, covering Sino-foreign joint ventures, cooperative projects, technology trade and trade in goods with a total value of about US$40.54 billion. With its emphasis on innovation, CHITEC’s vigour and vitality is clearly evident, and this has added to the Chinese Government’s confidence in advocating regional and international cooperation in high-tech industries and the vast market prospects of the development of China’s high-tech industries.

The 10th CHITEC will be a grand event of international communication and cooperation in high-tech and related industries, guided by the scientific concept of development. It will focus on key aspects of China’s economic, social and high-tech industrial development, and will explicitly demonstrate the theme of “innovation and development.” The six-day CHITEC will, through dozens of activities in the four areas of high-tech exhibitions, forward-looking forums, promotions and talks on sci-tech, economics and trade projects and specialized communications, display the latest domestic and international scientific and technological achievements, highlight the tremendous business opportunities brought about to the entire world by the sci-tech industrial cooperation during the 11th Five-year Plan for Social and Economic Development and the Beijing Olympics-related economy. This blending of the latest ideas and concepts that guide China’s industrial development will enhance regional and international cooperation in high-tech industries.

Activities of the 10th CHITEC

The tone for the 10th CHITEC will be set in its key-note speech session, but the main attraction will be 60,000 square metres of high-tech exhibitions, six rounds of project promotions and talks, eight forums and a large-scale personnel recruitment activity.

As the main stage of CHITEC activities, the exhibitions will be concentrated at the China International Exhibition Centre, using Halls Nos. 1–9, with a total display area of more than 60,000 square metres. They will be divided into the following 10 themed areas: Digital Olympics Technology and Equipment, Circular Economy, Technology into People’s Lives, Automobile Technology, Exhibition Delegations from Foreign Countries, Exhibition Delegations from Various Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities, Achievements of Proprietary Innovation from Zhongguancun, Sci-Tech Works by Young Students, CHITEC Achievements during the Last Ten Years, and Personnel Recruitment. The exhibitions will focus on the main line of “independent innovation and energy-saving.” The largest among them is the “Digital Olympics Technology and Equipment” pavilion, where dozens of domestic and internationally well-known high-tech enterprises will, under the theme of “Digital Olympics,” display informatization achievements directly applicable to the 2008 Olympic Games along with innovative results in the city’s informatization construction. The “Circular Economy” pavilion, which takes resource conservation and the comprehensive utilization of resources as its theme, will display technological products in environmental protection, energy conservation, new energy and new materials. The “Technology into People’s Lives” pavilion, showing for the first time, will display achievements of independent innovation in such areas as energy-savings, environmental protection, biomedicine and digital life that are closely related to the lives of ordinary people. The “Achievements of Proprietary Innovation from Zhongguancun” pavilion, which is a national base of independent innovation, will highlight the innovative achievements of its clusters of pilot enterprises. The interactive “Sci-Tech Works by Young Students in the Capital City” pavilion, another first-time exhibition, will integrate exhibitions, demonstrations, promotions, competition and interactivity in one area to display the innovative spirit and achievements of contemporary college students as well as primary and secondary school students.

There will be six rounds of negotiations and promotions of technological, economic and trade projects including “Talks on International Investment Projects,” which will focus on cooperation in technological trade projects and promotion of investment and financing projects; “Introduction of Overseas Investment Environment to Chinese Enterprises,” which features commercial departments of foreign embassies, foreign industrial and commercial associations, and foreign delegations to the CHITEC presenting their promotions; “Olympic Economy Market Promotion—Olympics related business opportunities and the international forum on the post-Olympic management of the Olympic venues,” which will detail business opportunities related to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The latter will also detail the post-Olympic management of the Games’ venues. The “Promotion of Scientific and Technological Achievements and Cooperative Business Projects” will bring more than 200 key high-tech projects receiving special State support to public attention, while the “Promotion of New Products and New Technologies in China’s Informatization Construction” will focus on e-government, the informatization of agriculture, the informatization of medium and small enterprises and the construction of information safety. The “Series of Promotions by Various Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities,” will provide insights into various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities will introduce their respective local development plans, investment environments and cooperative projects with foreign partners.

CHITEC’s plans involving “Highlighting the Theme and Creating Fine Works,” will unfold in eight forums or summit conferences: the “Summit on Finance and the Development of High-Tech Industries”; “International Forum on the Development of Independent Innovation and High-tech Enterprises”; “High-level Forum on China's Energy Strategy”; “High-level Forum on the Development of Circular Economy in China”; “Summit Forum on Modern Agriculture”; “Forum on New Technology and the Development of Cultural and Creative Industries”; “Forum on Technological Innovation and Urban Management”; and the “International Forum on the Development of China's Trade in Services.”

In addition, large-scale personnel recruitment and online recruitment activities emphasizing the exchange of science and technology talents will also be organized.

Characteristics of the 10th CHITEC

The 10th CHITEC is taking place at a historical time, during the implementation of the State’s 11th Five-year Plan. 2007 is a decisive year for accomplishing the preparatory tasks of the Olympic Games. To this end, the current CHITEC will have six major characteristics.

1) Refining the theme seriously and emphasizing “innovative development.” Summing up previous experience and following international practice, the present CHITEC is determined to make great efforts to appropriately control its scale, upgrade its brand quality, refine the theme seriously and highlight the main threads of innovative development. The arrangement of three segments, exhibitions, forums and promotions and negotiations, taking the scientific development concept as the guide and circling around the main line of “innovation and development,” fully engages the concepts of independent innovation, energy-saving and waste-reducing, scientific Olympics, innovative services, new rural construction, new technologies and cultural and creative industries, and other key areas of the 11th Five-Year Plan. Organically linked, the three segments support and set off one another, presenting a multi-faceted and multi-angled interpretation of the theme, bringing into full play the CHITEC role of promoting technological innovation and boosting industrial development.

2) Taking advantage of opportunity accompanying the 2008 Olympic Games and highlighting a “High-Tech Olympics.” With the Beijing Olympics approaching, activities involving the Olympics are hot topics. During CHITEC, a large number of the latest high-tech achievements related to “High-Tech Olympics” will be unveiled. In addition to the “Digital Olympics,” theme exhibitions involving famous firms such as the Olympic sponsors Samsung, Matsushita, Lenovo, and Haier will be held. Scientific Olympics achievements used in many fields and the competition of Olympic technologies by Olympic volunteers will be displayed at the Achievements of Proprietary Innovation from Zhongguancun and the Sci-Tech Works by Young Students pavilions. Promotions of Olympic market development projects that were conducted during the previous sessions of the CHITEC will be extended to such topics as the post-Olympic cooperative management of Olympic venues and the development of the industrial chain.

3) Interpreting the 11th Five-Year Plan and indicating various functional positions. All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities will form delegations with enterprises and functional zones to fully participate in the CHITEC activities. At the CHITEC exhibitions of industrial plans and resource advantages will be mounted by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities from around China. Expo participants can expect to learn about their business environments and key projects. Beijing’s districts and counties will also demonstrate in an all-round way their functional roles under the 11th Five-Year Plan to promote themselves to the country and the world and to attract cooperation.

4) CHITEC will be a place where hot topics and difficult issues are engaged in its forums. Forums and summit conferences featuring forward-looking, authoritative guidance are a key CHITEC feature. The eight forums planned by the current CHITEC all centre on key, hotly debated issues concerning socio-economic and socio-industrial development under the 11th Five-Year Plan. The “High-Level Forum on China’s Energy Strategy,” the “High-level Forum on the Development of Circular Economy in China” and the “Forum on Technological Innovation and Urban Management” will focus directly on some of the most difficult issues facing the country’s economic leaders and the most difficult bottlenecks in China’s socio-economic development. The “International Forum on the Development of China's Trade in Services” and “Forum on New Technology and the Development of Cultural and Creative Industries,” which are being held for the first time and take software outsourcing as the theme, will explore new approaches of China’s industrial transfer in the new situation of high-tech development. These forums will invite international professional organizations, authoritative senior governmental personnel from home and abroad, well-known experts, scholars, entrepreneurs and financiers to deliver speeches on various issues and ideas, all designed to improve communications. The new ideas and concepts that emerge from the forums and summit conferences will provide theoretical support for decision-making by the government and in industrial circles.

5) Constantly creating new forms and realizing mutual linkage and interaction. On the basis of adhering to the basic mode of exhibitions, forums and talks, the CHITEC exhibitions will have more interactive zones. For example, the specially set up “Technology into People's Lives” and “Sci-Tech Works by Young Students” pavilions will enable visitors experience high-tech first hand. Forum activities will encourage more interaction between speakers and their audiences. Economic and trade talks and promotions will, in accordance with market demand, include more service content such as policy speeches, seminars on experience and lectures on operational practices.