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The press conference of the 19th China Beijing International High-tech Expo was held on May 5 in Beijing.[Photo by Sun Muyao/chinadaily.com.cn]
The 19th China Beijing International High-tech Expo (CHITEC), organized by the CCPIT Beijing Sub-council and jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Intellectual Property Office, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), and the Beijing Municipal Government,will be held in Beijing from May 18 to 22.
The 19th CHITEC, taking “promoting scientific and technological innovation to lead industrial transformation” as its theme, will implement five great concepts of development to serve the national strategy of innovation-driven development. It will showcase outstanding cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements and create an atmosphere of wide-spread entrepreneurship and innovation to boost scientific and technological innovation and industrial cooperation. Its effect will be to promote the growth of new kinetic energy from traditional more static energy, and push economic development upwards, according to Yu Haibo, deputy director of the Office of the CHITEC Organizing Committee and vice chairman of CCPIT’s Beijing Sub-council.
On May 18, the Expo will hold a symposium at the National Political Consultative Conference Hall for high-ranking executives of the world’s top 500 enterprises, leaders from related ministries and commissions and academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The symposium will explore the international economic situation, the national development strategy and the application of major domestic achievements in science and technology.
