I. Activity Type

The supporting activities of the sixth CIIE are divided into the following categories:

(I) Policy Interpretations. Supporting activities in favor of various policy releases, authoritative analyses, in-depth interpretations, and trend analyses and judgment, carried out by central and state organs, local governments, industrial organizations, and research institutions to promote the opening up and cooperation.

(II) Matchmaking Signing. Supporting activities in favor of demand release, supply-demand matchmaking and signing ceremonies organized by trade missions, buyers, exhibitors, partners of buyer invitation & exhibitor recruitment, support units of the CIIE, and industry organizations to boost international procurement.

(III) Product Exhibition. Exhibitors, especially Fortune Global 500 and industrial leaders, will organize the promotion of new technologies, and new service displays to continuously build a platform of “CIIE Release” and enhance the CIIE’s international influence.

(IV) Investment Promotion. Supporting activities in favor of the introduction and presentation of the business environment, cooperation and exchange between provinces and prefectures, and industrial matchmaking meetings held by local governments, industrial parks and investment promotion agencies to drive the two-way investment and industrial cooperation at home and abroad.

(V) Cultural Exchange. This includes intangible cultural heritage exhibition, China’s time-honored brands, pedestrian streets, and tourism and commonweal performances with regional or ethnic characteristics organized by local governments and encouraged promotion and intangible cultural heritage exhibition by other countries and regions for the promotion of people-to-people exchanges.

(VI) Research Result Release. Supporting activities hosted by international organizations, industry associations, scientific research institutions, and professional bodies, including industry seminars, scientific research forums, and research outcomes-sharing sessions that align with the positioning of the CIIE, to promote innovation and mutual learning.

(VII) Other Categories. In addition to the aforementioned categories, the supporting activities shall be designed with other forms, such as industry annual meetings, customer appreciation meetings, and professional competitions.

II. Work Procedures and Division of Labor

Supporting activities will be coordinated and planned in four phases: activity subject application, labor division & collection, overall scheduling, and detailing & implementation.

(I) Main Organizers. The organizers will include central and state organs, international organizations, participating countries (or regions) in the Country Exhibition, exhibitors, provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, municipalities with independent planning status, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and its relevant authorities, buyers, partners of buyer invitation & exhibitor recruitment, supporting units of the CIIE, industry organizations, and the mainstream media.

(II) Application Procedure. The intentions of holding activities related to China’s provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, municipalities with independent planning status, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and its relevant authorities as well as the ones of holding activities related to their affiliated buyers, shall be collected by the secretariat of the relevant trade mission and then submitted to the China International Import and Exhibition Bureau. The intentions of holding activities related to central and state organs, international organizations, countries (or regions) of the Country Exhibition, exhibitors, members of the trade mission of central enterprises, members of the trade mission of the National Health Commission, partners of buyer invitation & exhibitor recruitment, supporting units of the CIIE, national industry organizations, and the mainstream media shall be directly submitted to the China International Import Expo Bureau. The deadline for activity hosting application is August 15.

(III) Scheduled Briefings. The China International Import Expo Bureau will take the lead in scheduling the time and venue of the intended activity application based on the positioning of the CIIE, the characteristics of industries, the nature of activity organizers, the main contents of activities, venue resources, etc. The official schedule time will be announced before the opening ceremony of the sixth CIIE.

(IV) News Communication. The organizer of activities will provide activity highlights and promotional materials based on actual needs and complete the collection by mid-October. Then the China International Import Expo Bureau will focus on promoting the qualified material contents.

(V) Organization and Implementation. According to the schedules, the organizers shall contact the China International Import Expo Bureau and National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) for registration, certificate handling, contract signing, venue service, fees settlement, etc.; they shall also steadily organize their activity’s implementation by detailing the planning.

(VI) Service Assurance. The China International Import Expo Bureau and the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. shall establish a working group on supporting activities to strengthen service assurances. The organizers of supporting activities will be supported in organizing guests to visit the Business Exhibition.

III. Requirements

(I) Composition of Activities. The number of activities should be limited. Activities including policy interpretation, matchmaking signing, product exhibition, investment promotion, cultural exchanges, and research result release should be prioritized before general meetings and private sessions. Considering such factors as safety, traffic, ideology, and news publicity, all supporting activities should be held at National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) or its affiliated IHG hotel.

(II) Supervision and Management. According to the principle that “organizers are responsible”, the organizers shall intensify the preliminary review and field monitoring of the content and personnel’s statements and conduct of supporting activities, after which a well-developed contingency plan shall be formulated; the organizers shall also report to the public security departments to eliminate potential safety hazards. Monitoring of and crack-down on criminal activities, such as activities in the guise of the CIIE, shall be strengthened by coordinating relevant departments of Shanghai.