6th CXMEE Opens This Morning(2002-4-12)

02-04-12 10:06　source:

　　***The First Large-scaled Cross-Straits Economic & Trade Event following China’s Accession to the WTO***
　
As the cozy spring breeze embraces the island, Xiamen rolls out the red carpet for business people who have traveled from all over the country to attend the great trade event. This morning, the 6th China Xiamen Machinery & Electronics Exhibition (CXMEE) opens with a grand ceremony at Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center.
　
The 6th CXMEE is the largest ever, attracting delegations from 24 provincial-level machinery & electronics import and export offices or foreign trade departments and 850 enterprises from Taiwan and 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. This CXMEE lured more repeated exhibiting enterprises, with 35% of exhibitors having been here more than once; the number of big-name enterprises also increased, including Japan’s Toyota, the US Jumbo Machinery, Shanghai’s VW, and Taiwan’s Zhenxiong Group and Allied Plastic Machinery.
　
Zhou Keren, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation delivered the opening speech. He said that the 6th CXMEE was the first large-scaled cross-Straits economic and trade event following China’s accession to the WTO. Mr. Zhou predicated that following the respective entries of China and Taiwan to the WTO, the mainland China would gradually open up its banking, insurance, telecommunications, tourism and commercial sectors and greatly reduce its tariff and non-tariff barriers, which, coupled with China’s massive efforts in developing the western regions, would present tremendous opportunities for the steady growth of economic cooperation cross the Taiwan Straits.
　
Taiwanese investment in the mainland China has experienced another surge recently. Nearly 400 Taiwan-based enterprises and mainland-based Taiwanese-invested businesses were represented here, accounting for 1/3 of the total number of exhibitors.
　
Zhang Changping, a city official, said in his speech that the CXMEE had grown into one of the mainland’s largest specialized shows focused on exporting, business talks and transactions for the machinery and electronics sector, and had become an important platform and bridge for mutual prosperity of the relevant sectors cross the Taiwan Straits and their joint penetration of the international market. Mr. Zhang was optimistic that economic and trade cooperation across the Taiwan Straits would enjoy more brilliant prospects and the “Three Links” would be an irreversible trend, which would present new business opportunities for this CXMEE.
　
This CXMEE has grown more specialized, with 80% of exhibited commodities being machines, electric motors, hardware tools, computer information products, and electronic elements. Another feature of this CXMEE is the gathering of the academic and business communities in exchanging their ideas at high-level seminars and press releases of government policies.(2002-4-12)