STORY: U.S. business service firm aspires to further explore Chinese market via CIIE
SHOOTING TIME: July 3, 2024
DATELINE: July 5, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:24
LOCATION: NANNING, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Dun & Bradstreet's business
2. SOUNDBITE (English): ANDREW WU, General Manager of Dun & Bradstreet China 
STORYLINE:

China on Wednesday kicked off the application process for global exhibitors looking to participate in the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE), set to be held in November 2025.
   
Twenty-six firms headquartered in countries such as the United States, Japan and Germany signed up to participate on-site at the exhibition recruitment launch ceremony in Nanning, the capital city of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Dun & Bradstreet, the U.S.-based commercial data and analytics firm has been attending the CIIE since 2020, aspiring to leverage the platform of CIIE to further explore the Chinese market.

SOUNDBITE (English): ANDREW WU, General Manager of Dun & Bradstreet China
"Actually, this is our fifth year participating in this very important event. So I think it's very important to be part of this event because of a few reasons. Firstly, we view this as a platform. We connect with our clients, our partners, and also other stakeholders in the market. So we built network with our friends on the CIIE platform. And secondly, we launch new products every year in the CIIE event. For example, we launched global data blocks. It's a product with global enterprise information. Now this product is becoming the biggest product for D&B in China. Thirdly, (CIIE) is also a platform where we listen to the market, listen to the feedback and see what's going on. Then we look at our strategy and what we should do in order to evolve and meet with our customer requirements in the Chinese market.
D&B has been in China for 40 years. We are a business service company. We also witnessed how the country's been opening up. Increasingly, we are looking at China as an innovation center. The talent and also the speed of innovation, it's really amazing in China. So that's why even at D&B, we're trying to combine our innovation in China with our global product to serve not only the Chinese market, but also the worldwide market."

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