Picture above: Mr William Tong, Director of BMGS Services S/B at CAEXPO NANNING 2019

The 16th China-Asean Exposition (CAEXPO), co-sponsored by the International Trade and Industry Minister, the People's Republic of China Ministry of Commerce and Asean business authorities as well as its secretariat, held in Nanning, China from 20 September 2019 to 23 September 2019.

During this year's promotion conferences, the CAEXPO Secretariat will focus on the highlights and general ideas of the 16th China-Asean Exposition. It is understood that this CAEXPO, with the theme of "co-building The Belt and Road jointly drawing the vision of cooperation', will work closely with the all the organising parties of Asean and take effective measures to ensure the success of the 16th CAEXPO.

As one of the three major exhibitions supported by the Chinese government, Malaysia attaches great importance to the CAEXPO and has participated in the CAEXPO for 15 consecutive years.

Previously, at the 15th CAEXPO, 174 exhibition enterprises from Malaysia were present and taking up 180 booths with total exhibition area of 3,240 square meters (sq m).

The total volume of transactions during the previous expo reached RM640 million, an increase of 58 per cent over the previous year and 10 memorandums of cooperation were signed, mainly involving logistics, e-commerce, catering, education and other fields.

In particular, about 2,800 meetings for one-to-one economic and trade matching were conducted in Malaysian Commodity Hall, including special matching meetings between Chinese cubilose purchasers and Malaysian cubilose enterprises.

A large number of food and health products enterprise successfully signed a large number of orders, and tourism and eduction services agencies also smooth found regional agents in China.

Malaysia's national promotion conference and other investment promotion activities will be held at the same time to strengthen bilateral friendly cooperation in investment, trade and multiple fields.