Interview: Serve a better life The driving effect of the Expo is obvious

Source: Xinhua Net

The fourth session of the Expo 丨 Interview: Serving a better life The driving effect of the Expo is obvious - visit to Zhang Min, executive director of the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Research Institute

Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, November 6 Interview: Serving a Better Life The driving effect of the Expo is obvious -- visiting Zhang Min, executive director of the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Research Institute

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Yan Su Liang

Zhang Min, executive director of the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Research Institute and professor of Shanghai University, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency a few days ago that the driving effect of the China International Import Expo has been obvious since its holding, and more positive linkage has been played. While serving the people's better life and promoting supply-side structural reform, ciie is also gradually cultivating China's consumer market, activating international trade, and actively responding to the challenges of anti-globalization.

Zhang Min said that the exhibition area of enterprises in the Expo has expanded from 270,000 square meters in the first session to more than 360,000 square meters this year, and the scale and capacity have increased year after year. The Expo is getting better and better, and it is becoming more and more attractive to exhibitors from all over the world.

Zhang Min believes that the current economic growth is increasingly dependent on consumption, and the Expo is subtly cultivating China's consumer market. The food, daily necessities, agricultural products, clothing, electronic products, etc. exhibited at the Expo make it easier for domestic people to buy good foreign products and enjoy quality services. The increase in imported goods will also lead to the improvement of consumption concepts, increase the categories of consumer goods, and promote consumption upgrading through a virtuous circle.

Speaking of the effectiveness of the Expo, Zhang Min said that the indirect contribution of the Expo to the exhibition industry and foreign trade is also obvious. Some exhibitors also went to other cities in China to hold exhibitions before and after the Expo, highlighting the bonus effect of this national exhibition platform. China's imports and exports grew in tandem, enlivening the entire international trade.

Zhang Min said that the high-quality development of China's economy needs a good external environment, and it also needs the support of a healthy domestic consumer market. CIIE promotes China to achieve a balance between imports and exports and domestic and foreign trade.

From the perspective of the global economy, Zhang Min believes that the Expo will help to cope with the challenge of anti-globalization, by expanding the domestic market to gather global producers, opposing de-globalization with practical actions, breaking down the barriers of science and technology, trade and talent made by some countries, providing development impetus and markets for goods and services to developing countries, and promoting the recovery of the world economy.