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There was the "Silk Road" in ancient times, and now there is the "the Belt and Road". The friendly exchanges between the Chinese people and the people of all ethnic groups in West Asia and Southeast Asia have a long history, and international trade exchanges have become closer.

On October 25, the "Beijing International Trade Import and Export Online Fair (Special Session for West Asia and Southeast Asia)", sponsored by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Beijing Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and organized by Simic Exhibition Company and Beijing Center of World Trade Network Alliance, opened. Zhao Weidong, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Li Zong, Deputy General Manager of Inclusive Finance Business Department of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bao Xiaochen, Vice President of Beijing Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Zhou Song, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China International Medical and Health Corporation, Wu Yi, Counsellor of the Business Office of the Chinese Consulate General in Dubai, and Datuk Naingmohammad, Acting President of Malaysia China International Trade and Industry Connection Association, Zhang Jianhao, Secretary General of Durian Industry Federation of Malaysia, and representatives of exhibitors attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches offline or online.

The online trade fair with the theme of "Deeply Cultivating Industrial Clusters and Creating a Professional Platform" has provided many foreign trade enterprises in Beijing and overseas purchasers with a window of connectivity and mutual trade. In the first half of the year, the "South America Special Fair" was held. This "West Asia and Southeast Asia Special Exhibition" aims to promote the international trade between Beijing and West Asia and Southeast Asia countries to be more smooth, and promote regional trade exchanges to a new level.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the exhibition lasted for seven days. Centering on the theme of "epidemic prevention materials and medical health, high-tech products and intelligent equipment, new materials and new life", the exhibitors carried out the exhibition through Symac's "industrial exhibition cloud" online exhibition platform and ICBC's global matchmaking platform. At the exhibition, many brands of "Beijing Creation" and "Beijing Intelligent Manufacturing" appeared, and enterprises and groups from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries actively participated. Since the platform was opened to the outside world on October 18, more than 120 Beijing enterprises and more than 100 foreign enterprises have participated in the exhibition, with more than 2600 views, more than 2000 visitors and hundreds of inquiries.

The Fair held six promotion activities, including policy "cloud promotion" and "cloud matchmaking+cloud docking" for enterprises in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries; The business counselors of various countries in China and the heads of industry business associations conduct "cloud promotion" on the outstanding advantages of domestic goods trade; The person in charge of the foreign enterprise's subsidiary in China said that the "cloud promotion" policy guarantee in Beijing helped the enterprise's development; Representatives of Chinese and foreign enterprises made speeches and reached cooperation intentions through "pre matchmaking", as well as held several online special matchmaking meetings between Beijing enterprises and enterprises in West Asia and Southeast Asia for different exhibition themes and countries, to help domestic and foreign enterprises achieve trade cooperation through a series of activities "cloud matchmaking".

From January to September, Beijing's import trade with Western Asian countries exceeded 500 billion yuan, more than 50% year on year, and its import and export trade with ASEAN countries reached nearly 200 billion yuan.

"Beijing Foreign Trade Import and Export Online Fair is a specific measure for Beijing to implement the decisions and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, implement the requirements of" stabilizing foreign trade ", and innovatively support enterprises to explore the international trade market. It is a new platform for Beijing to deepen foreign trade cooperation and firmly" go global "by using the online model against the backdrop of the current repeated global COVID-19 and the complex and changing world environment. It helps enterprises to catch orders online in special periods Promote the transaction, realize the cross-border economic and trade cooperation between Beijing enterprises and enterprises from countries in West Asia and Southeast Asia, promote the connectivity of domestic and international trade markets, and help to form a new development pattern of "double circulation". " The relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce said that in the next step, Beijing will seize the favorable opportunity, take the construction of the "two districts" as the guide, as always adhere to the concept of openness and cooperation, adhere to institutional innovation, promote the liberalization and facilitation of trade, investment and talent flow, create an international first-class business environment, and strive to create a new situation for development.

It is reported that "Global Matchmaking Fair" is an all-round cross-border service and global enterprise smart ecological community of "financing, intelligence and business" independently developed by ICBC. By building an open online demand release service platform and holding online and offline cross-border matchmaking activities, it is an all-round "escort" for recommended enterprises to deeply participate in the global industrial chain. Since the launch of the platform, it has attracted more than 70000 enterprises from 59 countries and regions to settle in, covering more than 30 industrial fields, held more than 160 cross-border matchmaking and promotion activities, and promoted more than 4000 cooperation intentions, amounting to more than 10 billion yuan.