This year marks the 15th year of Macao's return to the motherland, and the 19th Macao International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF), hosted by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (CIIT), the Macao SAR Government, was held from 23 to 26 October at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, with the theme of "Promoting Cooperation and Creating Business Opportunities", attended by the Chief Executive of the Macao Sarco, Chui Sai On, the Deputy Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macao, and officials from various Portuguese-speaking countries and mainland provinces and cities. As the "China Liquor Industry Zone" in the exhibition, the wonderful appearance has become a beautiful scenery displayed by the Chinese liquor industry at the exhibition.
China Liquor Industry Product Promotion Conference
In his speech, the Secretary for Economy and Finance of Macao, Tam Pak Yuen, said that the exhibition has become an international exhibition with certain popularity in the region, an important platform for the region to carry out foreign cooperation and exchanges, and has played a positive role in promoting regional economic cooperation, promoting macao's economic development and moderate diversification.
19th MIF Opening Ceremony
The exhibition is divided into two exhibition areas: display and exhibition. The main exhibition areas include Chinese mainland provinces and cities exhibition area, Macao Pavilion, Portuguese-speaking Countries Pavilion, Portuguese-speaking Enterprises Pavilion, European Pavilion, American Pavilion, Latin America Pavilion, ASEAN Pavilion, German Pavilion, Macao (Shenzhen) Electronics Exhibition, etc. The exhibition area of small and medium-sized enterprises includes the Exhibition Area of Macao Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, the Exhibition Area of Overseas Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and the Exhibition Area of Taiwan.
Shao Zhouxiang, CEO of the inland area of Hong Kong's Shaw Group's tea and wine project, was interviewed by the media
As a special exhibition area, the "China Liquor Industry Zone" was hosted by the Macao Joint Chamber of Commerce for Liquor and Food of Portuguese-speaking Countries (hereinafter referred to as the Macao Chamber of Commerce), co-organized by China Liquor Industry Magazine, and well-known wine companies from the mainland and Taiwan, such as Yanghe, Xifeng, Jinpai, Shaw's Tea Wine, Yushan Moutai Wine, etc., all sent representatives to participate in the grand event. Through a variety of activities such as exhibition display, on-site tasting, distribution of brochures, gift of small wine editions, and product promotion meetings, the participants were introduced to Chinese wine and its long-standing Chinese wine culture, which narrowed the distance between overseas merchants and consumers, and received widespread attention from the media at home and abroad.
Shaw Tea Wine Booth
According to Ip Siu Man, President of the Macau Chamber of Commerce, the Macau Chamber of Commerce has been committed to promoting the circulation of alcohol between the Mainland and Macao and Portuguese-speaking countries and regions, and just set up a wine and food exhibition center in Shanghai in May this year to introduce wine and food products from Portuguese-speaking countries to Chinese importers and huge consumer groups. This year's macao chamber of commerce has set up two wine industry exhibition areas, namely the "Portuguese-speaking Wine and Food Zone" and the "China Liquor Industry Zone", which give full play to the role of the Chamber of Commerce as a platform for foreign cooperation and exchange.
Xifeng wine booth
At the China Liquor Industry Theme Promotion Conference, Lu Ronghua, President of the Shanghai Liquor Industry Circulation Association, delivered a wonderful speech, and Chairman Lu believed that there would be at least ten to twenty years of benefits in the imported wine market, and data showed that in 2013, China's liquor consumption was 1200 tons, which was ten times the entire wine consumption. Chen Jinmei, assistant to the chairman of Hong Kong Shaw Tea Wine, introduced the brewing process and efficacy of Shaw Tea Wine, which has the characteristics of Chinese national culture and integrates the "special" identity of tea culture, wine culture and tea wine culture accumulated for thousands of years, and has won the praise of tasters with its unique tea aroma and rich tea polyphenols, and its 6 degrees of "Shangjue" is endlessly evocative. Chen Lili, director of the Export Department of Xifeng Wine in Shaanxi Province, introduced the series of products of Xifeng Wine, and introduced the mellow and good wine crystallized by the unremitting efforts of generations of winemakers and the inheritance of uninterrupted craftsmanship. At the same time, it discussed how Xifeng Wine, one of the four traditional Chinese famous wines, should build a new type of collaborative relationship, find more cooperation and investment opportunities, and deepen the close connection between production and sales.
A total of about 1,900 booths were set up in the exhibition, with an exhibition area of nearly 30,000 square meters, more than 4,500 exhibitors and foreign merchants, more than 50 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, and more than 40 forums, conferences and promotion meetings were held, including the International Trade and Investment Forum, the 11th World Summit of Chinese Entrepreneurs, the "Beijing-Macao-Portuguese-speaking Countries Cooperation Project Docking Roundtable", "Jiangsu, Macao, Portuguese-speaking Countries Business Summit", "Fujian, Macao, Portuguese-speaking Countries Economic and Trade Exchange Conference", etc. During the exhibition, more than 1,500 matching exchanges and exhibition project negotiations were held, and more than 130 projects were signed. The 20th Macao International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF) will be held on 22-25 October 2015.
Macau Introduction:
Macao covers an area of 31.3 square kilometers, with a population of 607,500 and a foreign population of more than 200,000. In 2013, Macau's economy grew by 11.9%, with a GDP of MOP413.5 billion (about US$51.7 billion) and a per capita 679502 MOP (about US$87,187). At present, Macao is promoting the construction of a world tourism and leisure center and a regional business service platform. Macao should give full play to its advantages of relying on the motherland and facing the world, effectively grasp the opportunity of the mainland to comprehensively deepen reform and expand opening up, strengthen cooperation and exchanges with the mainland, seize the opportunity of the state's more open policies such as trade and investment facilitation, negative list management model and pre-establishment national treatment, seize the opportunity, and accelerate the establishment of closer economic and trade relations with the mainland. In terms of the construction of the service platform for economic and trade cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, Macao will accelerate the construction of a commercial and trade centre for small and medium-sized enterprises in Portuguese-speaking countries, a food distribution center for Portuguese-speaking countries and a convention and exhibition center for economic and trade cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.