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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
HANGZHOU, May 26 (Xinhua) — Some 17,000 buyers from China and overseas visited the 4th China-Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) Expo, which concluded in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sunday.
The volume of placed import orders amounted to 10.98 billion yuan, the organizers reported. In addition, during the fair, agreements were signed on the implementation of 24 investment projects, primarily related to areas important for the formation of productive forces of a new quality – artificial intelligence, production of high-end equipment, etc.
The organizers noted a significant expansion of the geography of participants. In addition to 14 CEE countries, 120 countries and regions of the world were represented at the current EXPO, the number of participating enterprises approached 1,500, and about 4,000 foreign buyers visited the fair.
It is particularly noteworthy that the newly established section “Intelligent and Digital CEE” brought together 37 leading companies in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, in particular, companies from Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia demonstrated their developments in VR, flight simulators and an aircraft resembling a bat.
Progress was also made in improving cooperation mechanisms during the fair. Thus, the dialogue on customs and quarantine control led to an agreement on the admission of agricultural products from Bulgaria and Croatia to the Chinese market and the establishment of a cross-border information exchange mechanism. It was decided to open a liaison office of the China-CEECA Agricultural Cooperation Promotion Association in Ningbo, which is designed to provide comprehensive support for the entry of relevant products from CEECA countries to the Chinese market. -0-