I. Activity Type

The supporting events of the Eighth CIIE are divided into the following categories:

(I) Policy Interpretations. Supporting events in favor of various policy releases, authoritative analyses, in-depth interpretations, and trend analyses and judgment, carried out by relevant authorities, industrial organizations, and research institutions to promote the opening up and cooperation.

(II) Industry Seminar. Research releases, research findings sharing sessions, government-industry-academia-research dialogues, and industry seminars organized by international organizations, industrial organizations, and scientific research institutions, in line with the theme and orientation of the CIIE, aiming to foster innovation and mutual learning.

(III) Investment Promotion. Business environment promotion, provincial-prefecture exchanges and cooperation, industrial matchmaking seminars, and other events organized by local governments, industrial parks, and investment promotion agencies, aiming to promote two-way investment and industrial cooperation between domestic and overseas markets.

(IV) Matchmaking and Signing. Demand release, supply-demand negotiations, signing ceremonies, and other events organized by various trade missions, buyers, exhibitors, partners of buyer invitation & exhibitor recruitment, supporting units of CIIE, and industrial organizations, aiming to facilitate international procurement.

(V) Product Release. New product release, new technology promotion, new service display, and other events organized by exhibitors, especially Fortune Global 500 enterprises and industry-leading enterprises, aiming to keep enhancing the “CIIE Release”platform to boost its international influence.

(VI) Other Events. Cultural exchange activities, industry annual conferences, client appreciation events, and closed-door meetings, among others, in addition to the aforementioned categories.

II. Work Procedures and Division of Labor

(I) Main Organizers. The organizers will include relevant authorities, countries (or regions) participating in the Country Exhibition, international organizations, exhibitors, China’s provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, municipalities with independent planning status, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corpsand relevant departments, buyers, partners of buyer invitation & exhibitor recruitment, supporting units of the CIIE,industrial 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 relevant authorities, countries (or regions) participating in the Country Exhibition, international organizations, 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 industrial organizations, and the mainstream media shall be directly submitted to the China International Import Expo Bureau. The deadline for activity hosting application is August 31.

(III) Scheduled Briefings. The China International Import Expo Bureau will take the lead in scheduling the time and venue of the intended application of related supporting events 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 in mid-September.

(IV) News Communication. The organizer of activities will provide activity highlights and promotional materials based on actual needs before 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 the 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 events to strengthen service assurances. The hosts of supporting events will be supported in organizing guests to visit the Business Exhibition.The collection of group visit requests will be completed by mid-October.

III. Requirements

(I) Composition of Activities. Activities including policy interpretation, matchmaking signing, product exhibition, investment promotion, cultural exchanges, and research result release should be prioritized before general meetings and other events. With a comprehensive consideration of such factors as safety, traffic, ideology, and news publicity, all supporting activities should be held at the 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 publicize according to laws and regulations, strictly prohibit activities under the guise of the CIIE, and intensify the preliminary review and field monitoring of the content and personnel’s statements and conduct of supporting activities.A well-developed contingency plan shall be formulated, and related information should be reported to public security and other relevant departments as required to eliminate potential safety hazards.