Ten summit forums will be unveiled at the Trade Fair.

  On August 23rd, the media briefing of the 2023 China International Fair for Trade in Services Summit Forum was held. Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned from the scene that during the service trade fair in 2023, 10 summit forums will be held, covering new trends in service trade development, service trade facilitation, digital economy, digital trade, intellectual property protection, new formats of cultural tourism, meteorological economy, medical and industrial integration, scientific and technological innovation and "One Belt, One Road" cooperation, and the China Service Trade Development Report 2022 and Digital Trade Development and Cooperation Report 2023 will be released. The Ministry of Commerce will award the "New National E-commerce Demonstration Base in 2023" on the spot. State administration of traditional chinese medicine will release the achievements of international cooperation in traditional Chinese medicine in the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative.

  Focus on "New Scenes" and Build an Interactive Exhibition Area for the First time

  The 10 summit forums to be held during this year’s Service Trade Fair are: 2023 China E-commerce Conference, Service Trade Development Summit Forum, Digital Trade Development Trend and Frontier Summit Forum, 2023 World Tourism Cooperation and Development Conference, Global Service Trade Entrepreneur Summit, Second Summit Forum on Combating Infringement and Counterfeiting, 2023 Health and Pharmaceutical Industry Innovation Service Conference, Second International Meteorological Economic Summit Forum, Sixth Belt and Road Forum on Chinese Medicine Development and World Frontier Science and Technology.

  Among them, the 2023 China E-commerce Conference will be held at the Beijing National Convention Center from September 2 to 3, when the Ministry of Commerce will release the "Newly-built National E-commerce Demonstration Base in 2023" and award the license on the spot. The conference will invite relevant government leaders, industry experts, social organizations and representatives of outstanding enterprises at home and abroad to attend, share new achievements in e-commerce development, talk about new trends in e-commerce reform, and build an advanced new era of e-commerce.

  It is reported that the 2023 China E-Commerce Conference will set up an interactive exhibition area for e-commerce cases for the first time, inviting case enterprises such as retail innovative brands, domestic brands, digital people and AR technology to present interactive experiences on the spot, focusing on the innovative achievements of new e-commerce scenes, new formats and new models.

  During the conference, four special meetings will be held on "New Digital Consumption, Boosting Agriculture with Digital Merchants, Cross-border E-commerce and E-commerce Procurement of State-owned Enterprises". Among them, the new digital consumption special session adopts the full dialogue mode for the first time, presenting new retail formats, consumer brand cores, technological innovation applications and other contents in a more relaxed and open form. An award ceremony for "2023 Beijing Live E-commerce Shopping Festival" will also be held at the meeting.

  The cross-border e-commerce special session will focus on brand globalization, digital supply chain and cross-border e-commerce service ecology, and explore how to promote the high-quality development of the whole industry chain in the new development stage of cross-border e-commerce. At the meeting, the resource service center of Beijing cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test area (Tianzhu) will officially kick off.

  Focusing on the new model and new opportunities of e-commerce to help rural revitalization, the special event of promoting agriculture by digital merchants will invite outstanding enterprises such as Box Horse, China Post, E-Home of Supply and Marketing, Old Chestnut Tree and some "new farmers" in the era of digital merchants to share.

  The e-commerce procurement special session of state-owned enterprises will invite the leaders in charge of e-commerce of central state-owned enterprises and representatives of leading enterprises in the e-commerce industry to jointly discuss the practical experience of e-commerce platform and digital procurement of state-owned enterprises, and promote the innovative development of industrial Internet in the digital economy era.

  Release the development trend of meta-cosmic industry around the "new track"

  The 2023 Digital Trade Summit Forum will be held on the afternoon of September 2. It is reported that the forum will cover digital technology, digital industry, digital logistics and other fields, and cultivate new formats, new models and new brands of digital trade. Explore new practices in digital trade industry system, platform system, ecological system, institutional system and supervision system, and jointly build an international cooperation and exchange platform leading the development of global digital trade.

  According to Liang Liang, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, digital trade in China has developed rapidly in recent years. According to the data released by the Ministry of Commerce, in 2022, the scale of service trade that can be delivered digitally reached 2.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 78.6% over five years ago; The import and export scale of cross-border e-commerce reached 2.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 30.2% over two years ago. Strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist in the development of digital trade. For example, the problem of insufficient development imbalance is still outstanding, there are bottlenecks in promoting the high-quality development of digital trade, the ability of digital innovation is not strong, the problem of data security is becoming increasingly prominent, the governance system that adapts to the innovation of digital trade format mode needs to be improved urgently, and the participation of global regulation and governance is insufficient.

  The forum will invite well-known scholars at home and abroad to share the cutting-edge views in the fields of digital trade and digital economy, and build a think tank platform for the construction of the global digital market. The forum will also invite senior management representatives of Fortune 500 companies at home and abroad to talk about the development in three major themes, namely, strengthening the construction of digital trading platform, reshaping global trade with digital technology, and improving the level of digital trade and promoting the ecological tolerance and innovation of digital trade. In addition, the forum will focus on how digital governance and digital trade law are in line with international standards, how to coordinate the development and security of digital trade, create a good institutional environment for the digital economy, invite domestic and foreign scholars and representatives of international organizations to talk about development, and promote the improvement of global digital trade governance system.

  Liang Liang said that this forum will continue to focus on the "New Track of Digital Economy" and release "Insight into the Development Trend of China Meta-Universe Industry", hoping to promote and strengthen cooperation among all parties, and promote international and domestic dialogue and communication in the field of digital economy through this forum under the general idea of building new development concepts and new development patterns and promoting a higher level of opening up, so as to build a platform for exchanges and cooperation between digital trade technology and industry.

  A number of important achievements will be presented at the summit forum of the Trade Fair.

  The reporter of Beiqing Daily learned that a number of important achievements will be released at the summit forum of this year’s service trade fair. For example, at the service trade development summit forum to be held on September 3rd, the Service Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce will release the China Service Trade Development Report 2022, the Foreign Economic Research Department of the the State Council Development Research Center will release the Digital Trade Development and Cooperation Report 2023, and the Market Economy Research Institute of the the State Council Development Research Center will release the research report China’s service industry opening in the changing world, and invite industry experts to comment and discuss it.

  Che Haigang, deputy editor-in-chief of China Development Publishing House, said that these three reports are important research results of the Ministry of Commerce or the State Council Development Research Center, which are closely related to the development of service trade, consistent with the direction proposed by the Organizing Committee, with strong timeliness and high authority, and have important reference significance for China to lead the development of global service trade.

  It is reported that as one of the 10 summit forums of the Service Trade Fair in 2023, the service trade development summit forum will focus on the theme of "opening up to the outside world at a high level to promote the high-quality development of service trade", focusing on the new trend of service trade opening up and service trade facilitation, and setting up speeches and keynote speeches, keynote speeches, results release and discussion, strategic dialogues and other links.

  The forum invited ministerial leaders of key countries’ delegations, representatives of many international organizations such as the World Bank, New Development Bank and OECD, more than 10 principals of Fortune 500 companies, multinational companies and well-known domestic companies such as HSBC, Boston Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PayPal, Maersk Group, Standard & Poor’s, KPMG and AECOM, as well as more than 10 well-known economists and think tank representatives to focus on related topics in the field of service trade and conduct interpretation and dialogue.

  Text/reporter Wang Bin

  sb/sth attracting attention

  Hourly global radar precipitation products will be released soon.

  In recent months, Beijing has been plagued by extreme weather such as high temperature and heavy rain, and various abnormal weather and climate events have appeared one after another, constantly refreshing previous records. In the case of frequent extreme events, how to deal with global climate change and promote the recovery of the world economy has become a common issue facing the international community.

  The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that the second international meteorological economic summit forum will be held at this year’s service trade fair, and many heavyweight guests will be invited to attend the conference. The scale of the conference is about 200 people, and experts and scholars will carry out in-depth interpretation and communication around climate change and new energy development.

  According to Qu Ya, Secretary-General of China Meteorological Service Association, the forum set up special reports, results release, cooperation signing and other links, and made authoritative interpretations around the global energy Internet development trend, meteorological support energy transformation, China’s new energy development strategy, the latest progress of meteorological service new energy, smart grid construction, and the path to carbon neutrality, so as to jointly contribute wisdom to the in-depth study of climate change and sustainable development.

  In addition, four important achievements will be released authoritatively at this summit forum. Among them, the "One Belt, One Road" climate report released by the National Climate Center provides guidance for enhancing mutual understanding among the "One Belt, One Road" countries and helping enterprises go global. As the representative of exhibitors, Ink Weather will release hourly global radar precipitation fusion products to the public, which will further improve the accuracy and presentation of meteorological services. The meteorological service platform for energy and electricity released by the weather image shows China’s pioneering achievements in energy and electricity services. Qu Ya said that the release of these achievements is of great significance to empowering the development of the "Belt and Road" and helping the global green and low-carbon transformation.

  At the same time, the third global meteorological service and equipment exhibition will be unveiled at the first phase complex of the National Convention Center. The exhibition area covers an area of more than 200 square meters, and dozens of enterprises from meteorological, energy and related industries at home and abroad will focus on displaying the latest meteorological scientific and technological achievements and the latest application and technological progress of meteorological integration into economic and social development.

  Qu Ya introduced that at the exhibition site, the World Meteorological Organization displayed the latest achievements of global early warning and global greenhouse gas monitoring, and many Chinese and foreign enterprises and institutions, such as Dalian Commodity Exchange, Zhongke Star Map, Aerospace New Weather, Hangzhou Zog, Ink Weather, Visala, Finland, and Yitong Huasheng, Hunan, will focus on displaying the latest achievements and technical applications of meteorological empowerment industry in the form of video animation, system demonstration, physical model and interactive experience, and build an industry exchange platform.

  Text/reporter Wang Bin