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Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting 2012 of World Trade Center Association Held in Beijing

Hosted by World Trade Center Association, supported by People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, co-hosted by Beijing Chamber of International Commerce, and organized by China World Trade Center and World Trade Center Beijing, the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting 2012 of World Trade Center Association was held in Beijing today. Heads of World Trade Center of over 10 cities including Tokyo (Japan), Daejeon (South Korea), Melbourne (Australia), Bombay and Bangalore (India), Manila (Philippines), Miami (US), Cape Town (South Africa) and Moscow (Russia), principals of World Trade Center of over 20 cities including Chinese Taipei, Chinese Taizhong, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Wuxi, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Changchun, and over 150 representatives from industrial and commercial circles attended the meeting. It’s learned that the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting 2012 is another grand meeting held in Beijing in succession of the 41st Global Meeting of World Trade Center Association held in 2010. This is also one of the Regional Meetings with the most participants from the broadest area. WANG Chao, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, GOU Zhongwen, Deputy Mayor of Beijing, and Robert Frueh, Executive Vice President of World Trade Center Association addressed the meeting.

Under the theme of “Linking the World Trade Centers into a Global Network”, all the participants discussed the issues such as the prospect of trade in China and Asia-Pacific region, expansion of service function and the network of World Trade Centers, and cooperation between World Trade Centers in Greater China region, etc. The management of World Trade Center Association introduced its network service platform; and heads of World Trade Center Miami, Tokyo, Manila, Bombay, Bangalore, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Changzhou, etc. analyzed their successful cases on exhibition service, trade service, facility service as well as brand promotion.

This meeting makes a breakthrough in terms of holding ways by integrating investment environment introduction, trade talks and exchange between Chinese and foreign enterprises, and is a grand meeting which has great achievements in promoting investment by and exchange and cooperation between enterprises in a global range. In the duration of the meeting, a lecture on “Trade in China” was specially arranged for representatives from World Trade Centers of foreign countries, to help overseas investors discover the Chinese market and trading rules. World Trade Center Moscow also brought a delegation consisting of 15 enterprises to conduct face to face exchange with Chinese enterprises. World Trade Center Moscow and World Trade Center Beijing also signed a friendly cooperation agreement in the duration of the meeting, to enhance trade and cooperation between the two cities.