CIIE remains attractive to foreign entrepreneurs and investors.
Over the course of its first seven editions, the CIIE has showcased more than 3 new products.
CGTN – Imagine an event where innovation, technology, and services abound. At the exhibition, boxing robots attract a large crowd. The medical area showcases cutting-edge technologies for healthcare. A vertical takeoff and landing air taxi makes the dream of "taking a flight as a taxi" a reality. This is the 2025 China International Import Expo.
At the 8th China International Import Expo (CIIE) held in Shanghai, people can deeply feel the immense charm of technology integrated into daily life. Furthermore, they can make new friends in 10 minutes and close a cooperation agreement in 15. All this within the CIIE pavilions, demonstrating the strong appeal of this Chinese trade fair.
As a crucial platform for innovation and global cooperation, this edition of the CIIE centrally showcases 461 new products, technologies, and services, including a number of global launches, Asian premieres, and exhibitions never before seen in China.
Over its first seven editions, the CIIE has showcased more than 3 new products, technologies, and services, fully confirming that the vast Chinese market is becoming a testing ground, a center of profits, and an application platform for global innovations. Taking GE Healthcare from the US as an example, the company achieved record numbers of new products, scale of global premieres, and concentration of Chinese innovation this year. Its globally premiering surgical robot for spinal surgery allows for complete visualization of the procedure and achieves submillimeter-precise positioning, which will benefit a wide range of patients.
This year was particularly "new" for the world. The recent 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) outlined clear plans for the country's economic and social development over the next five years. Among them, "achieving significant progress in high-quality development" was listed as a top priority among the economic and social development goals during the 15th Five-Year Plan. Specific measures such as "accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-sufficiency," "leading the development of new qualitative productive forces," and "consolidating and strengthening the real economy base" presented more opportunities for multinational enterprises. As the first major economic diplomacy activity held after the 4th plenary session, the wave of "innovation" permeating the 8th edition of the CIIE injected new development momentum into foreign enterprises.
Taking advantage of the vast Chinese market, foreign companies also find, through the CIIE, a boost for long-term growth. Especially in recent years, the rapid development of emerging industries in China, with advances in sectors such as life sciences and artificial intelligence, has provided broad development prospects for foreign companies.
From the partners' point of view, China's robust innovation capacity has provided foreign companies with numerous like-minded collaborators. Currently, China ranks first in the world in terms of the number of researchers, the number of innovation clusters listed among the top 100 globally, the volume of articles in high-level international journals, and the number of international patent applications.
As many executives from foreign companies have said: "We expect to remain rooted in China and will stay here, through good times and bad."
Translation: Isabel Shi
Review by: Gabriela Nascimento
Source: CMG