Africa Pavilion Made its Debut on the Fourth CIFTIS-- ChinAfrica

Africa Pavilion Made its Debut on the Fourth CIFTIS

Under the time background of "one belt and one road", China Africa Industrial Forum (CAIF) organised the pavilion participated by ten delegation from African countries, making its debut on the Fair to inject new life to International Exhibition

The fourth China (Beijing) International Fair for Trade in Services(CIFTIS) kicked off in Beijing National Convention Center on 28 May. CIFTIS, as the world’s largest event on trade and service, attracted 3746 enterprises and 22,779 merchants from 123 countries and regions to attend the Fair.

The ten participating countries are Kenya, Ethiopia, Tunisa, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. African Pavilion aims to implement the "Ten Major Cooperation Plan", to show the image and potential of African countries, and to promote the cooperation between China and Africa in various fields.

Cheng Zhigang, the Secetary-General of China Africa Industrail Forum attended the opening ceremony of the Global Trade in Services Summit, which discussing thepath, rules and trend of global trade in services on openness, innovation and integration.

The Fair highlights the concetp of "openness, innovation, integration", focusing on science and technology, the Internet, information, culture, education, finance, business travel and health care. The exhibition is 50,000 squre meters, on which 122 theme forum and meetings will be held.In addition, Africa Day will be held on 31, May at National Convention Center Meeting Room 310. Chinese leaders and ministerial leaders from African countries, the African Ambassador, hundreds of enterprises as well as well-known Chinese and foreign media will attend the meeting.

(China-Africa Cooperation Net May 29)