2015 Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo & Industrial Cooperation Summit was held in Urumqi on August 12, 2015. The 1st Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo will last for 5 days, theming on “building the Silk Road Business Platform, Advancing Mutually-beneficial Cooperation between Asian and European Industries”. Attending were officials at departmental level from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, and the General Administration of Customs. Director-General of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of MOFCOM Sun Chenghai addressed the Industrial Cooperation Summit.
The 2015 Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo set up two theme exhibition areas --the textile and apparel industrial exhibition and the farm produce exhibition, and three sub-exhibition areas--the Xinjiang brand wine show, brand jewelry and jade show and overseas brand show with the local industrial characteristics. The five exhibition areas accommodates 1,955 standard booths with 824 exhibitors, 622 of which were domestic enterprises, taking up 75.5% and 202 were enterprises overseas, taking up 24.5%.
The Great British Brands Festival was held in Xinjiang International Exhibition Center on the afternoon of August 12, and was attended by the Deputy Secretary-General of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Director-General of the 2015 Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo Committee Yu Huan, Director-General of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of MOFCOM Sun Chenghai, Secretary-General of 2015 Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo Committee Chi Wenjie, the CEO of China-Britain Business Council Stephen Phillips and UK’s Commercial Counsellor in China Stephen Ellison.
Director Sun Chenghai accompanied the President of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to meet with UK delegation.
