STORY: 6th China-Arab States Expo kicks off in northwest China
DATELINE: Sept. 21, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:50
LOCATION: YINCHUAN, China
CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY/ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the sixth China-Arab States Expo
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU XIAOZHUANG, Senior Product Manager of TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
3. various of cooperation between China and the Arab States

STORYLINE:

The sixth China-Arab States Expo opened Thursday in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The four-day event draws the participation of guests from more than 50 countries such as Saudi Arabia and Mauritania.

This year's expo features trade fairs and forums on trade and investment, modern agriculture, cross-border trade, cultural tourism, health, water resources utilization, and meteorological cooperation.

The offline exhibition area at the expo is nearly 40,000 square meters, and more than 1,000 domestic and foreign enterprises have participated in the exhibition.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU XIAOZHUANG, Senior Product Manager of TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
"The China-Arab States Expo is a grand event for China and Arab states to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative.
For exhibitors like us, it provides an important opportunity to expand the market and promote the brand."

First held in 2013, the China-Arab States Expo has become an important platform for China and Arab states to promote pragmatic cooperation and advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.

Over the past 10 years, the expo has attracted over 400,000 participants and 6,000 enterprises from 112 countries and regions. More than 1,200 cooperation projects were signed in areas such as modern agriculture, high technologies and biomedicine.

China is now the Arab states' largest trading partner. China-Arab trade volume almost doubled from the 2012 level to 431.4 billion U.S. dollars last year. In the first half of this year, trade between China and the Arab states reached 199.9 billion dollars.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Yinchuan, China.
(XHTV)