The hub is one year-round platform for the CIIE to help overseas companies explore the Chinese market through roadshows, negotiations, and exhibitions.
The guests learned about the center's role in helping overseas products enter the Chinese market and its future plan to become a novel platform for international trade.
A media delegation consisting of 21 journalists from 15 renowned media outlets in Honduras recently visited the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trade Center.
The sixth China International Import Expo, which will take place this November in Shanghai, started accepting registration applications from professional visitors, or buyers, on June 1.
Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center, the year-round display and trading platform for the China International Import Expo, will see another 130,000-square-meter space be put into use this year.
Shanghai will hold a major shopping festival in early May to further stimulate market expectations and confidence – and accelerate the development of the city as an international retailing hub, local authorities said recently.
The Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trade Center gathers more than 70,000 imported goods from more than 90 countries and regions.
The spillover effects of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) has reached far beyond Shanghai to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, which is basically the entire Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region, experts said during a recent interview with Radio Shanghai's Voice of YRD.