Orient International, a Shanghai-based enterprise focusing on
manufacturing and services, planned to extend the services of the
365-day trading platforms for the China International Import Expo (CIIE)
to more regions outside Shanghai, according to the company's senior
official on Wednesday. Initiated in 2018, the platform allows exhibitors at CIIE to display
and sell their products all year long, besides the six-day expo period. According to Tong Jisheng, president of Orient International, the
company has established six sub-centers of the Hongqiao Import Commodity
Exhibition and Trading Center - one of the 56 365-day trading platforms
in Shanghai - in cities like Zhejiang province's Hangzhou and Anhui
province's Hefei. "We expect to expand the scale to 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta in the future as well," he said. Shows on CIIE exhibits have also been held in other inland provinces
and regions including Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Qinghai
province across the nation, Tong added. He said nine distribution centers for imported goods in Asia will be
settled at the second phase of the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition
and Trading Center that is under construction. They will cover areas
such as jewelry and luxury goods, healthcare and environmental
protection, and imported technical services.
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