Xiamen’s Convention and Exhibition Industry Ignites: A Blazing First Nine Months
In the first nine months of this year, Xiamen’s convention and exhibition industry was on full swing
120 exhibitions were held, with an exhibition area of nearly 1.5 million square meters.
Southeast Network, November 7 (Strait Herald reporter Huang Yilin, correspondent Wang Fulong) The 15th Cross-Strait Cultural Expo has concluded successfully, the 2024 East Asia Sea Conference and Xiamen International Ocean Week are in full swing, and the 65th Pharmaceutical Machinery Exhibition will be held in November A grand opening on the 17th… As we enter the end of 2024, a series of high-quality professional exhibitions are “in full swing”. Multiple exhibition venues have once again become traffic gathering places, and Xiamen’s exhibition industry is booming.
The exhibition industry is the “barometer” of economic development and the “lookout window” of the city’s image. Statistics show that from January to September this year, Xiamen held a total of 120 exhibitions, covering an area of approximately 1.4958 million square meters, a year-on-year increase of 17.74%; a total of 3,179 conferences were held, with approximately 565,500 participants, a year-on-year increase of 3.68%; achieved The economic benefit was approximately 19.951 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.35%. The “multiplier effect” of Xiamen’s exhibition economy is accelerating.
Ranked among the top ten in the country
A fertile ground for the development of the convention and exhibition industry
Last weekend, the 15th Cross-Strait Cultural Expo was held at the Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center. The total number of visitors reached 150,000, and the on-site transaction and order volume was 3.369 billion yuan. At the same time, the Xiamen International Expo Center has launched the “two-dimensional” mode – the 2024 Xiamen International Cartoon and Animation Festival Golden Dolphin Animation and Game Carnival is held here, with an exhibition area of 30,000 square meters. During the event, it attracted tens of thousands of visitors every day to check in immersively. . Two grand conferences were held at the same time, and the Xiamen Convention and Exhibition was full of “hot value”.
The vitality of Xiamen’s convention and exhibition economy stems from Xiamen’s long-term insistence on both internal and external improvements, strengthening policy support and planning guidance, constantly optimizing the convention and exhibition business environment, and building a good industrial ecology. Since this year, Xiamen has launched the “2024 Brand Exhibition and Potential Exhibition Selection” and the revision of convention and exhibition industry policies. The special funds for the development of the convention and exhibition industry were cashed in in a timely manner, benefiting 113 convention and exhibition projects of 71 convention and exhibition companies in the first half of the year.
Xiamen’s good convention and exhibition industry ecology is also obvious to all. Recently, at the 2024 China Convention and Exhibition City Industry Cooperation Conference and Convention and Exhibition City Competitiveness Index Press Conference, the “2023 China Urban Convention and Exhibition Industry Competitiveness Index Report” and the “2023 China’s Most Competitive Convention and Exhibition Cities” list were released. Xiamen Convention and Exhibition Industry Competitiveness ranks 10th in the country, up 2 places from the previous year. The data shows that Xiamen’s professional capabilities and innovative strength in exhibition organization, services, marketing and other aspects have been further improved.
“Industry + Exhibition” integrated development
Industrial exchange event once again appeared on “Heron”
“Industry + Convention and Exhibition” has been the specialty of Xiamen Convention and Exhibition in recent years. From the 17th to the 19th of this month, another grand industrial exchange event – the 65th National Pharmaceutical Machinery Expo and China International Pharmaceutical Machinery Expo (referred to as the “Pharmaceutical Machinery Expo”) will be held at the Xiamen International Expo Center, with 12,400 booths. , there are 1,500 exhibiting companies, and the number of visitors is expected to exceed 80,000.
This is after the 63rd Pharmaceutical Machinery Exhibition was successfully held in Xiamen in November last year, setting a “double record” for the Pharmaceutical Machinery Exhibition and the largest exhibition in Xiamen, the Pharmaceutical Machinery Exhibition will be held in Xiamen again in November this year.
It is understood that this exhibition has set up a preparation machinery and equipment pavilion, API equipment and machinery pavilion, pharmaceutical packaging machinery pavilion, testing and laboratory pavilion, pharmaceutical water and gas equipment pavilion, medicinal crushing equipment pavilion, decoction piece machinery pavilion, engineering , purification and environmental protection equipment pavilion, nine major equipment exhibition areas in other pharmaceutical machinery pavilions, as well as the international pavilion and biopharmaceutical area.
At the same time, this year’s Pharmaceutical Machinery Exhibition will feature five forums including synthetic biology technology application scenarios, development of personalized medical and aesthetic raw materials, and technological innovation of synthetic biology and API intermediates, which will create a synthetic biology conference in Xiamen. Exchange event.
The biopharmaceutical industry is a key industry that Xiamen focuses on developing. The Pharmaceutical Machinery Exhibition is the most influential flagship event in my country’s pharmaceutical equipment industry. It has developed into one of the few large-scale pharmaceutical machinery expositions in the world. It is praised by exhibitors as “the best pharmaceutical machinery exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region” and “opening up China’s pharmaceutical industry.” The best platform for the market.” This powerful alliance will continue to inject more vitality into Xiamen’s industrial upgrading and economic development.