The first China International Import Expo (CIIE) was held in Shanghai in 2018. The names of the first batch of enterprises to participate in the second CIIE has been published as the 200-day countdown begins, according to the China International Import Expo Bureau. The Expo is set for November 5-10 in Shanghai.

The planned Enterprise and Business Exhibition area will be 300,000 square meters and divided into five parts – equipment, consumption, healthcare, food, and trade in services. There will be seven display areas on science-tech life, automobile, equipment, medical equipment and healthcare products, quality life, trade in services, and food and agricultural products.

The science-tech life display area will showcase AR and VR, and technology companies such as Panasonic, Samsung, Qualcomm, Bosch, 3M, SAP, Delonghi, Infineon, Steinway, Ricoh, SMEG, Schott, and AGC will display their products. Automobile exhibitors including Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, GM, Toyota, Hyundai, KIA, Ford, Tesla, and Volvo will bring their latest cutting-edge products.

The new technologies in intelligent manufacturing, aerospace and robotics will be displayed at the equipment showing area, and exhibitors such as Hexago, Boeing and Bombardier will show their products. Newcomers such as GSK and Siemens Healthcare will display their new products at the medical equipment and healthcare products area with Roche, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, Philips, DH, Thermo Fisher, and Novo Nordisk.
The quality of life exhibition area will display products for pregnant women, babies, and children, and high-end consumer goods. Enterprises such as L’Oreal, Unilever, P&G, Lego, Estée Lauder, Shiseido, Amorepacific, and Kao will set booths in the area. The signed exhibitors at the trade in services area are Deloitte, PWC, KPMG, Ernst & Young, UPS, DHL, CMA CGM, HSBC, and VALE International.

The food exhibition area will be 60,000 square meters, showing dairy products, vegetables, fruits, meats, aquatic products, snacks, condiments, liquor and beverages, and the exhibitors will include Nestlé, Danone, Fonterra, Theland, Dole, Louis Dreyfus and Cargill, the China Daily reports.

The organizers have decided to extend the exhibition for an extra 10 days after the completion of the official agenda. The number of daily visitors will be limited to 50,000. The exhibition area for companies will be expanded to 300,000 square meters, up from the 270,000 sq m last year. Medical equipment and healthcare companies will have more space this year, with an area set aside for elderly care and rehabilitation service providers. Up to now, about 70% of Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies had signed up to attend this year’s CIIE. British drugmaker GSK and Siemens Healthcare will make their debut, and about 20 of the world’s top 30 medical equipment makers have agreed to attend.

At the opening of the first CIIE last year, President Xi Jinping said that China is likely to import more than USD30 trillion worth of goods and USD10 trillion worth of services in the next 15 years as Chinese people continue to upgrade their lives. The value of orders and transactions at last year’s CIIE reached USD57.83 billion.