A: The full name of the forum is Hongqiao International Economic Forum or Hongqiao Forum.

I. Exhibition conditions

Enterprise & Business Exhibition is an important part of CIIE and a platform for overseas enterprises to display overseas goods, technologies and services. Enterprises and institutions registered outside the customs area of the People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, China) are welcomed to participate.

※ Authorized by overseas enterprises, domestic enterprises (such as domestic subsidiaries, agents, partners, etc.) can handle matters on behalf of overseas enterprises within the scope of authorization. Relevant display and publicity must be carried out in the name of overseas enterprises.

II. Introduction on exhibition areas

CIIE Enterprise & Business Exhibition is divided into six exhibition areas: Food and Agricultural Products, Automobile, Intelligent Industry & Information Technology, Consumer Goods, Medical Equipment & Healthcare Products, and Trade in Services. According to the domestic import needs and industrial development trend, each area is further divided into different sectors and special sections, which will be constantly optimized.

1. Food and agricultural products area

Range of Exhibits: Fruits and vegetables and agricultural products, dairy products, snack foods, sweets, condiments, beverages and wines, meat, aquatic products, frozen foods, comprehensive foods (including pet food), crop seed industry (including breeding or cultivation techniques; seed industry R&D innovation; agricultural machinery; pesticide, micro fertilizer; seeds of crops such as rice, wheat, melons and fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants) etc.

Special section: dairy products, agricultural products and crop seed industry

2. Automobile area

Range of Exhibits: Passenger cars, commercial vehicles, concept vehicles, new energy vehicles, off-road vehicles, motorcycles, smart mobility products and technologies (new energy, automatic driving product technologies and solutions, smart transportation, future mobility, intelligent Internet connection, etc.), automotive parts and auto electronics (drive part, chassis part, body part, lightweight, auto interior, on-board system, etc.), automobile supporting products and maintenance supplies (automobile aftermarket, testing and diagnostic equipment, lubricating oil, etc.), automobile culture and design (classic cars, automobile modification, automobile design, automobile consumption and derivatives, etc.), automobile sports and competitions, automobile lifestyle, etc.

Special section: smart mobility

3. Intelligent industry & information technology area

Range of Exhibits:

Digital industry: automation, robotics, industrial solutions;

Integrated circuit: design, manufacturing, sealing test, equipment and materials of chip;

Energy, low-carbon and environmental protection technology: mining metallurgy, petrochemical industry, new materials, new energy, electric power, water treatment, environmental protection technology and equipment;

AI: human-computer interaction, database, Internet of Things, communications;

Optical printing: wide-format printer, digital composite machine, label machine, scanner, 3D laser scanning equipment, professional film and television equipment, industrial measurement, microscopy technology;

Others: metal cutting, metal plate, measurement and parts, aerospace, high-tech ships, construction machinery, etc.

Special section: low-carbon energy and environmental protection technology, digital industrial automation, integrated circuit, artificial intelligence

4. Consumer goods area

Range of Exhibits: Facial care and make-up, other personal care and daily chemical products, consumer electronics and household appliances, home furnishings and design, fashion clothing and accessories, gemstones and jewelry, sporting goods, sports events and e-sports, etc.

Special section: beauty and cosmetics, fashion clothing and accessories, sporting and events, green and intelligent home appliances and furnishing

5. Medical equipment & healthcare products area

Range of Exhibits: Drugs, medical devices, dietary supplements, and others：medical cosmetology, health tourism, medical technology and services, health care, etc.

Special section: rehab and elderly care, public health and epidemic prevention

6. Trade in services area

Trade in productive services: financial services (banking, insurance, asset management, etc.), consulting services (design, information technology, inspection and testing, etc.), logistics services, supply chain management, comprehensive services

Trade in life services: services in culture, tourism, education, entertainment and licensing

III. How to register

Enterprises (institutions) that register for the CIIE for the first time may register an account on the official website of the CIIE and submit information of the company and registration. When approved, the staff will contact you.

Enterprises (institutions) that have registered for the previous CIIEs can log in to the existing accounts to submit the registration information without re-registration, or directly contact CIIE staff to register.

Registration: “Business Exhibition - Registration” section of CIIE official website

E-mail: exhibition@ciie.org

Hotline: +86-21-968888 (Bilingual in Chinese and English, round-the-clock service)

2. Registration channels

1) Register through CIIE official website.

2) Call the CIIE hotline for consultation and registration.

3) Contact with the specialized service agencies approved by CIIE at home and abroad. Small and medium-sized enterprises can contact local organizers to sign up for the Expo in group. Details on: 

https://www.ciie.org/zbh/cn/19BusinessEx/display/ExOrg/

4) Register at all kinds of offline activities or on site of the previous session.

3. Registration feedback

After the successful registration on the official website, the staff will contact you by email or phone as soon as possible.

4. Registration deadline

CIIE is held from November 5 to 10 every year, and the deadline for registration is May 30.

IV. Exhibition fees

1. Rent for standard booth and raw space.

Price for indoor booth:

Standard booth: USD 3,000 or RMB 21,000 each (9 m²)

Raw space: USD 330 or RMB 2,310 / m² (36 m² at minimum)

Price for outdoor booth:

Raw space: USD 220 or RMB 1,540 / m² (36 m² at minimum)

The raw space requires a minimum of 36 square meters. If you want a smaller space, a standard booth is recommended. The sponsor will make overall arrangement and allocation of booths according to the professional subdivision planning of each special area, the scale of enterprises, the influence of the industry, the size of the booth, the subdivision category of exhibits, etc.

2. Favorable price

Exhibitors who sign the Exhibition Contract before January 31, 2022 can enjoy 10% discount of booth fee.

If exhibitors reserve a certain area of booth before January 31, and wish to increase the area after January 31, they can still enjoy the early bird price for the added part.

3. Payment time nodes

After registration and approval by the China International Import Expo Bureau, exhibitors will sign the Exhibition Contract with China International Import Expo Bureau to reserve the booth. The payment time of booth fee will be specified in the contract.

4. Preferential policies

According to Notice on Preferential Tax Policies for Imported Exhibits Sold during CIIE (Finance-Customs-Taxation [2020] No. 38) jointly issued by the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs and the State Taxation Administration, import duties, import value-added tax and consumption tax shall be exempted for a reasonable number of imported exhibits sold during the CIIE. Please refer to the notice for details.

http://gss.mof.gov.cn/gzdt/zhengcefabu/202010/t20201013_3602959.htm

V. Booth preparation

1. Time for preparation

Generally speaking, exhibitors can construct their booths and arrange exhibits from late October to early November. For the specific date, please refer to Time Arrangement of CIIE released on the official website (generally released after March of the same year).

2. How to build a booth

The standard booth will be set up uniformly, the cost of which will be included in the booth fee. A construction service provider shall be selected for raw space renters from the list of recommended service providers of CIIE, or an unlisted provider may be introduced.

3. Application and specific requirements for activities in the booth

Activities that may attract crowd in the booth requires an advanced application in the CIIE exhibitor service system, and can be held only with an approval.

For other questions about booth construction and exhibits admission, please refer to the Exhibitor's Manual (generally released between May and July of the same year).

VI. How to become an overseas organizer

We welcome industrial and regional institutions from all countries (regions) around the world who have the will, the ability to organize exhibitions and abide by the exhibition policies to assist in the recruitment of Enterprises & Business Exhibition. Details can be obtained from exhibition@ciie.org. Overseas institutions can directly contact the business institutions of local Chinese embassies.

VII. Personnel admission

1. Requirements for personnel admission

Those who have reached the age of 18 must register in the system with their real name before the designated date of the same year, enter with their real name certificates, and abide by the epidemic prevention regulations of the same year.

2. Exhibitor admission fee

A certain number of vacancies will be arranged according to the booth space. RMB 200 will be charged for exhibitors without seat.

VIII. Professional visitors

1. What measures will CIIE take to invite professional visitors?

It will adhere to the principle of “government plus market”, organize 39 trading groups and hundreds of trading subgroups, and recruit professional audiences by region and industry. Dozens of investment promotion roadshows and pre-exhibition supply and demand docking meetings are held every year, covering all exhibition areas. During the CIIE, various on-site supporting activities (including trade and investment matchmaking meetings) are held, including policy interpretation, matchmaking and signing, new product release, investment promotion, research release, etc., to attract professional audiences from government, industry, universities and research institutes.

2. representative professional audiences

Each year, CIIE invites hundreds of thousands of professional audiences from various industries, as well as important buyers with great influence, strong purchasing power and high attention recommended by the central enterprise trading group, the trading group of National Health Commission, local trading groups and exhibitors.

For details: https://www.ciie.org/buy/front/index

3. Professional audience invitation by exhibitors

Exhibitors may invite enterprise and individual visitors to the CIIE. Enterprise visitors shall register a purchaser account on the official website of the Expo [https://www.ciie.org/ciie/f/visitor/pre-book] to sign up. Individual visitors may apply for certificates directly through the exhibitor’s account. The certificate costs RMB 200 / person (the whole Expo) or RMB 100 / person (the second half of the Expo)

Reply: Visitors at the 1st China International Import Expo are divided into two categories: professional visitors, and social visitors with appointments.

Professional visitors include domestic and overseas buyers, as well as professionals from domestic and overseas government bureaus, public institutions and social organizations. Professional visitors are divided into two categories: trading delegation professionals and independent professionals, depending on whether they are in a trading delegation. Visitors at the 1st China International Import Expo are mainly members from the trading delegations of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, cities specifically designated in the state plan and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (regional delegations), as well as central enterprise delegations.

Social visitors with appointments are the general social public with the intent to visit the 1st China International Import Expo, and they should have passed appointment verification.

Reply: During the Expo, relevant departments of Chinese government will energetically provide various guarantees and convenient services for clearance of exhibiters and exhibits.

Reply: The General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) issued the Measures of the Customs of the People’s Republic of China for Goods Temporarily Imported or Exportedin December of 2017 [No. 233 Decree of GACC] to stipulate the import and export of exhibits.

For specific procedures ofclearing different exhibits, you may consult the official freight forwarders of the expo and entrust them to go through the procedures.

Reply:Entry exhibits and other non-tradable goods are exempted from inspection.

Reply:The expo will select a group of premium service providers in the industries for the exhibitors to selectto facilitate the participation. The name list and the contacts will be released on the expo’s official website and through other channels. Please stay tuned.

Reply:National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) (NECC) has hosted a wealth of large expos with huge flow of visitors in a safe and orderly manner, such as China International Medical Equipment Fair and Auto Shanghai.As of now, the venue may receive 197,000 visitors at the maximum in a single day.