During 22 and 26 of August 2011, the high-tech expo organizing committee held a work meeting for the 15^th China Beijing International Hi-Tech Expo (15^th Hi-Tech Expo) in Hefei, capital city of Anhui Province. The invited 40 strong participants were delegates from provinces, regions and municipalities of China, responsible for sending of their group delegations to the expo. ICCIE Beijing Chairwoman Ms. XIONG Jiuling, vice chairman LIN Bin and deputy head of the science and technology department of Anhui Province attended and addressed the meeting. The meeting was presided over by vice chairman CHU Xiangyin.

 

Ms. XIONG Jiuling briefed the meeting on the overall thinking of the 15^th Hi-Tech Expo with the following:

          1. plan activities with the present national and international situation in mind and the implementation of the national 12^th Five Year Plan. The year-end would-be held economic meeting by the central government, the national strategic deployment of scientific development, practical needs of provinces, regions and municipalities, emerging industries, traditional industry optimizing & upgrading, indigenous innovation, regional economic development, the effective integration of and interconnection between exhibition and demonstrations, meetings and forums, business promotions should also be important consideration for plan and design of the event activities.

           

 

2. Gather together innovative resources to improve effectiveness of the expo. Make full use of the importance attached by the central government and governments at lower levels on indigenous innovation and speeding up transformation of economic development mode. Integrate resources in the central government departments and commissions with concern to promote deeper cooperation in between central SOEs and provinces/regions/municipalities. Invite extensively multi-national companies, well-known industry enterprises, leading figures, and experts and academics to participate the expo, making the expo a high land for hi-tech innovation, a low land for conversion of research findings, and a treasure land for gathering talents.

 

3. Continue the efforts of Beijing serving the whole China theory in concept, methodology, contents and details. Enhance promotions efforts on hi-tech signature projects of provinces/regions/municipalities (PRMs) . Organize specific exchange activities in combination with relevant scientific needs during process of economic and social development of PRMs, increasing technology exchange and cooperation.

4. Stick to the efforts of making the event more and more international by 1) adopting international expo organizing standards, 2) broadening wider to the outside with technology, 3) making full use of global scientific resources, 4) strengthening international technological cooperation and exchange, and 5) a mixture of inbound and outbound exchanges.