Targeting at a second CECF, CSMEF arrived in Shanghai for business invitation on June 16th, and the Exhibition and Business Invitation Publicity and Promotion Conference of the 2nd CSMEF and a medium conference were held accordingly by Shanghai Small Enterprise Development Promotion Coordination Office. Mr. Huang Jianxiang, director of General Division of SMEs Department of National Development and Reform Commission, Mr. Chen Xiangxin, Vice Director of Guangdong Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprises, and Mr. Chen Peilin, Director of Shanghai Small Enterprise Development Promotion Coordination Office, introduced various aspects of CSMEF respectively. The conference was presided over by Shen Hui, Vice Director of Shanghai Small Enterprise Development Promotion Coordination Office. Representatives from over 10 industrial associations of Shanghai attend the conference.
CSMEF had been approved by the State Council to be held in Guangzhou annually, and this CSMEF would be the second fair starting from September 12th to September 15th. It was known that the exhibition area had been expanded three times comparing with the 1st CSMEF, and Sino-French SMEs Fair would be held simultaneously. This Fair would cover an in-door area of 120,000 square meters with 6000 stalls. Different from dividing sections according to provinces in previous CSMEF, this CSMEF would establish 9 special exhibition sections, namely Electronics & IT Products Section, Fittings for Automobiles and Motorcycles Section, Leather Products Section, Commodities Section, Textiles & Garments Section, Household Electrical Appliances Section, Food & Beverage Section, Medicine Section and Ceramics Section. Besides 5,000 enterprises organized by Chinese party, over 300 French SMEs would also attend the Fair. The sponsors predicted the 2nd CSMEF would attract around 50,000 audiences. By far, the exhibition invitation work of the beauty industry had been basically completely, while the Electronics & IT Products
Section had completed half of its invitation work.
¡°Due to limited strength and scale, over 30 million domestic SMEs are at weak status in exploring market and are difficult to walk over the ¡®high doorsill¡¯ of CECF¡±. Mr. Huang Jianxiang, Director of General Division of SMEs Department, told the journalist that CECF only admitted enterprises with an annual export value of over USD 2 million, therefore, most SMEs could only ¡°look at the doorsill and sigh¡±; the purpose of holding CSMEF was to provide a second CECF for SMEs.
Mr. Chen Peilin, Director of Shanghai Small Enterprise Development Promotion Coordination Office, expressed, due to limited time and heavy task, he wished all industrial associations to pay great concern. Instruction groups, established according to the requirement of National Development and Reform Commission, should rely on the strength of industrial associations; while all industrial associations should actively communicate with the instructional bodies of 9 exhibition sections of CSMEF.
It was said that sponsors would invite large-scale international purchasers such as Wal-Mart and Carifour to attend the Fair to open a convenient door for SMEs exploring international market. The 1st CSMEF was held in October last year. 1,950 domestic enterprises and 118,000 people from over 50 countries had attended the Fair to visit, purchase and hold business talks and signed 13,600 projects with a total value of RMB 32 billion.
