The Introduction of All Previous CHTF
One, General Introduction
China Hi-tech Fair (CHTF for short) is held in Shenzhen city every year under the approval of the State Council in 1999. It has become a widely influential and world famous fair in the field of hi-technology because of its “state level, international, high level, big scale, productive, professional and all year around”. As the biggest and most influential fair of science and technology, it is called “the No.1 Technology Show in China”.
Featuring “the commercialization of hi-tech achievements” and centering on “boost the commercialization”, CHTF provides visitors and customers from home and abroad with a convenient channel in their seeking projects, technologies, products, markets, capitals and talents through integrating the commercialization of hi-tech achievements, hi-tech products displaying and trading, investment, high-level forum, information exchange, and so on.
Since the first CHTF, it attracted many attentions and great supports from governments of China at various levels which can be proved by the visits of several state leaders such as Zhu Rongji, Wu Bangguo, Li Changchun, Wu Yi and Zeng Peiyan. Meanwhile, CHTF also enjoys a huge popularity among a large number of hi-tech enterprises, like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Siemens, British Telcom, Ericsson, Phillip, SAP, Sony and Samsung, etc. every CHTF attracts delegations from tens of countries such as U.S.A., British, Germany and France. All the provinces, autonomous prefectures, municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan which are the usual participants of the event. There are also thousands of reporters from hundreds of news media coming to report the grand event. Since moving to the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center at the sixth CHTF, the visitors’ number has reached 500 thousands.
Because of its continuing successes, rising influence, scale expanding, contents enriching and internationalization, CHTF has become an important window for opening-up of Chinese hi-technologies and a platform for their commercialization, playing an important role in promoting cooperation and exchange of economy and technology between countries and regions. It has been regarded by many visitors and customers as a key arena for showing strength, getting information, enhancing exchanges and seeking cooperation.
Two, Introductions about Previous CHTF
CHTF 1999
1999 is a mile stone for Chinese hi-tech development. In August, 1999, the CPC central committee and the state council held the convention of national technological innovation, in which, a decision about enhancing technological innovation, developing high science and technology and realizing their industrialization was made. The direct result of this convention was the holding of the first CHTF in Shenzhen city from 5th to 10th, Oct, 1999. After that, Chinese hi-tech achievements’ industrialization had a place for tranformation.
At CHTF 1999, Zhong Rongji, Prime Minister of P.R.C. came to the spot and said ”In order to promote the economic and technological cooperation between China and the other countries in the world, the Chinese Government decides to hold CHTF each year in Shenzhen”. The first CHTF was jointly hosted by Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of P.R.C., Ministry of Science and Technology of the P.R.C, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the P.R.C, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government at the new Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, which was comprised of three parts: the commercialization of hi-tech achievements, hi-tech forum and the display of hi-tech products with the theme of “international computer, telecommunication and network products”.
CHTF 1999 combined the commercialization of hi-tech achievements with specialized show organically when highlighting the former. Meanwhile, it creatively brought into full play government and intermediary in the commercialization of hi-tech achievements and projects and made a meaningful try in exploring the new-type commercialization mechanism by first proposing the commercialization mode of “the combination of commercialization of achievements and venture investment”. CHTF 1999 not only presented thousands of high-level projects at the exhibition but also invited domestic and foreign enterprises in needs of technologies, venture investment institutions and intermediaries. For the latter two, specialized shows were organized. The online commercialization system for technology suppliers and buyers was established for the purpose of realizing the “all-year-round” CHTF, which created conditions for the scientific and technological achievements into productivity and produced many great results. Hi-tech forum was also became one of the top forums in China’s hi-tech field.
General data: 20,200 square meters of exhibition area, 2,856 enterprises, 4,150 projects, 955 investors, 5 foreign government delegations, 86 delegations from 26 countries and regions, 32 international corporations, 31 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 22 famous universities, 4 state ministries (academies), over 30 top rank speakers and USD 6.494 billion of trading volume.
CHTF 2000
The first CHTF was so successful that it attracted many attentions at home and abroad. Therefore, a large number of visitors and customers came to participate in CHTF 2000 with soaring enthusiasm. For satisfying the demands of more exhibitors, the capacity of Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center was expanded, which made the scale of the second CHTF bigger than the first one. At the same time, the internationalization and professionalization of CHTF were also improved rapidly with which its functions in promoting the industrialization and commercialization of hi-tech achievements were able to work better.
The second CHTF was held from 11th to 17th, Oct. 2000 at the new center and Wu Bangguo, Vice Prime Minister of State Council attended the opening ceremony by delivering a speech. It was made up of the exhibition and commercialization of hi-tech achievements, specialized show and hi-tech forum. Besides IT exhibition, newly-added “biological technology specialized show” and “new material specialized show” attracted more international corporations.
CHTF 2000 further accentuated the commercialization of hi-tech achievements, making more active exploration in the commercialization methods and modes, such as holding auction of hi-tech achievements and match-making talks on projects, establishing “hi-tech property right exchange” and setting up the online commercialization system. Those actions made daily projects collecting, appraising, packaging and matching be the compensations of displaying, transacting and negotiating during the fair. Therefore, the commercialization mechanism of combining the “end” and “endlessness” of CHTF was more complete. The active venture investors were still the shinning spot of CHTF 2000, thus, CHTF further enhanced the intermediary services of investment and capital raising by establishing the union of hi-tech industry and venture investment. In order to regulate the latter investing in the former, Shenzhen city issued the Provisional Regulations on Venture Capital Investing in Hi-tech Industry, which was the first regulation from government for regulating investment behavior. At the second CHTF, many overseas students participated in the fair and found CHTF was a convenient channel for pursuing their own careers in China.
General data: 36 thousand square meters for exhibition, 2,968 enterprises, 15 thousands projects, 13 hundreds investors, 9 foreign government delegations, 86 delegations from 33 countries, 44 international corporations, 31 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, 5 cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 26 famous universities, 6 state ministries (academies), over 30 top rank speakers and USD 8.54 billion of trading volume.
CHTF 2001
The successes of the last two CHTF injected a strong strength into China’s economic growth and the adjustment of industrial structure. The recession of the world’s economy brought negative effect to China’s international trade and export. However, the export of China’s hi-tech products was booming, which effectively stimulated the growth of the international trade. The success of CHTF 2001 played an important role in further increasing the export of China’s hi-tech products, optimizing the structures of commodities and industry and stimulating economic growth.
CHTF 2001was held from 12th to 17th, Oct, 2001 at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center and Shenzhen Civic Center. Wu Yi, State Councilor attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. This time, the National Development and Reform Commission became one of the hosts and the Ministry of Agriculture and Chinese Academy of Engineering were the co-organizers, which made CHTF stronger in organizing, bigger in scale and more prominent in theme. Besides the original three grand shows, it added the show of hi-tech agricultural technologies and products.
Based on the successes of last two fairs, CHTF 2001 continued to perfect the modes of commercializing achievements: created the negotiation of investment in newly-started enterprises and explored actively a new coordinated mode for establishing a business, which was “CHTF—the Commercialization of Technological Property Right—Growth Enterprises Market”, with a purpose of establishing a new-type capital market centering on the commercialization of technological property rights and investment in new enterprises, and constructing the commercialization system that is suited to China’s national conditions and has Chinese characteristics. Meanwhile, CHTF combined its advantages with science and technology, talents and information resources in all provinces and expanded itself at time and space by holding paired talks in Beijing and Hubei in April and June.
For the convenience of exhibitors’ arranging their participation, the organizing committee decided to fix the holding time of CHTF to be every year’s October from 12th to 17th.
General data: 50 thousand square meters for exhibition, 3,320 enterprises, 15,404 thousands projects, 1,661 hundreds investors, 11 foreign government delegations, 85 delegations from 37 countries, 41 international corporations, 31 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, 4 cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 30 famous universities, 7 state ministries (academies), over 60 top rank speakers and USD 10.418 billion of trading volume. According to the survey of Up-Point Consulting Company, the professional audiences accounted for 41.87% at CHTF 2001.
CHTF 2002
CHTF 2002 was held right after China’s entry into WTO, which brought both opportunities and challenges. How to help Chinese hi-tech enterprises improve their competitiveness in the world, how to further combine CHTF with the export of Chinese hi-tech products and how to make CHTF play more important role in the economic growth and the adjustment of industrial structure, CHTF 2002 gave its answers in its own way.
CHTF 2002 was held from 12th to 17th, Oct at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center and Shenzhen Civic Center. Zhou Guangzhao, Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. CHTF 2002 continued the contents of its predecessors but added the consultation and negotiation activities on Chinese enterprises listing at abroad, which attracted lots of international stock exchanges from over 10 countries and regions such as NASDAQ, Singapore, London and Tokyo. Thus, CHTF has created the “products” of different ladders from “Paired talks of hi-tech project” to “talks of newly-started investment” to “consultation and talks of Chinese enterprises listing at abroad” to satisfy the needs of the commercialization of hi-tech achievements in its different phases. The “super-SUPER” special events were also first began from this fair, whose menu-style services enhanced the exchange and cooperation between provinces, cities, academies, institutions, enterprises and their overseas counterparts, and also increased the hi-tech commercialization and investment introduction. The series activities for overseas students offered them a face-to-face chance with capital and built a bridge for them to start their own career with their hi-tech projects at homeland.
General data: 50 thousand square meters for exhibition, 3,691 enterprises, 7,749 thousands projects, 1,124 hundreds investors, 17 foreign government delegations, 88 delegations from 40 countries, 42 international corporations, 30 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, 4 cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 27 famous universities, 7 state ministries (academies), 62 top rank speakers, 6 academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering and USD 12.16 billion of trading volume.
CHTF 2003
In face of the negative influence of SARS, CHTF 2003 still achieved a big success in creating a safer and more comfortable environment for exhibition and more suitable atmosphere for negotiation, communication and cooperation with the principle of grand, ardent, pragmatic and succinct. It had a memorial significance of periodicity and became a big shinning spot among the national convention and exhibition industry in 2003. Wu Yi, Vice Prime Minister of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. CHTF 2003 was comprised of 5 parts: “Commercialization of Hi-Tech Achievements”, “Specialized Show”, “China Hi-Tech Forum”, “super-SUPER Special Events” and “A Year-round Fair”. The “Specialized Show” had three parts, which were technology and products exhibitions of information, biology and new energy and new material technology. From this time, the Ministry of Education of the P.R.C. joined to be one of the hosts, which made the host number reached 7.
For celebrating the 5th anniversary of CHTF, CHTF 2003 held “the Exhibition of Excellent Commercialization Projects at Previous CHTF” to retrospect and conclude the accomplishments and experiences that CHTF harvested in the commercialization, industrialization and internationalization of hi-tech achievements. At the ministerial forum, four ministers of science and technology from China, Egypt, British and Russia jointly signed Shenzhen Declaration. Super-SUPER special events were refined into “menu-style” service at this CHTF, becoming its unique service brand. At the activity of “the interactive dialogue between CEOs from China and U.S.A”, dozens of CEOs talked face to face, which was the first time in China.
General data: 36 thousand square meters for exhibition, 2,930 enterprises, 7,857 thousands projects, 1,138 hundreds investors, 18 foreign government delegations, 90 delegations from 42 countries, 35 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 27 famous universities, 5 state ministries (academies), 60 top rank speakers,400 top rank speakers from 20 countries and regions, 20 Chinese provinces and cities and over 30 universities took part in the “round table talk” and “super-SUPER” series activities, 10 domestic and foreign stock exchanges which included 5 international stock exchanges among “top 10” and over 400 enterprises took part in the “consultation and negotiation for Chinese enterprises listing at abroad” and USD 12.838 billion of trading volume.
CHTF 2004
CHTF 2004 was a mile stone in the history of CHTF. The reasons were: the newly-constructed Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center was put into use, which made the exhibition area 3 times larger than the last one and reached 135, 500 square meters. Besides, the number of foreign countries, international corporations, exhibition acreage of all provinces, the universities, and so on all broke the records. This year witnessed the mature of CHTF.
At the fixed time, CHTF 2004 held the opening ceremony and again invited Wu Yi to present at the event. Besides the usual 5 contents, this fair added “Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange”. The host list was extended to 10 because of the participation of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the P.R.C., the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. and Chinese Academy of Engineering.
At this CHTF, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Chinese Academy of Science jointly held “National Hi-Tech Achievements Exhibition”. Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange was first held to provide technology, capital and talent for the development of hi-technology. Two new exhibitions, “Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Products Exhibition” and “Opto-FPD Exhibition”, extended the list of specialized show to 6 and covered more hot spots of technological advancement. CHTF forum became more and more international after the five-year “China Hi-Tech Forum” was upgraded to be “the World Economy, Science and Technology Forum”. This year witnessed “IT of CHTF/ComNet” getting approved from UFI.
General data: 135,500 square meters for exhibition, 4,041 enterprises, 9,674 thousands projects, 1,882 hundreds investors, 21 foreign government delegations, 115 delegations from 42 countries, 36 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 31 famous universities, 47 top rank speakers, 10 famous domestic and foreign stock exchanges and 42 international stock exchanges and intermediaries took part in the “consultation and negotiation for Chinese enterprises listing at abroad”. The first Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange attracted 90 thousands talents and 12 thousands of them got their jobs from 1,050 enterprises.
CHTF 2005
In 2005, under the instructions of Mr. Hu, General Secretary of CPC, about making the independent innovation as the priority of all the scientific and technological work so as to improve independently innovative capability and increase the construction of innovation system with Chinese characteristics, CHTF 2005 took “independent innovation” as its theme. This fair invited Zeng Peiyan, Vice Prime Minister of the State Council to attend the opening ceremony.
The main characteristics of CHTF 2005 were as follows: new breakthroughs in internationalization, new contents for the classic exhibitions, new moves in professionalization and new explorations in commercialization, and also with a strong sense of “independent innovation”. This time, the number of countries, international corporations and exhibit acreage of the International Hi-Tech Achievement Exhibition all broke the historic records. During the fair, the latest achievements of national independent innovation in the fields of science and technology, economy and trade, information and biological technology were all displayed collectively. With the principle of “fewer but better”, one hand, CHTF reduced the number of forums, on the other hand, CHTF put much effort in making “the World Economy, Science and Technology Forum” be the best. Meanwhile, CHTF gathered its strength to refine Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange and IT exhibition, Opto-FPD and ELEXCON, by which their influence and quality all got improved.
CHTF 2005 first realized all the activities including exhibitions and meetings held in one place. After not disclosing the trading volume to the public any longer last fair, CHTF 2005 canceled the ceremony of signing key projects and turned to bettering the services for all the parties to the exhibition and the services for making the projects into reality. This year witnessed the first overseas CHTF in Vienna, Austria.
General data: 135,500 square meters for exhibition, 3,464 enterprises, 8, 724 thousands projects, 1,896 hundreds investors, 23 foreign government delegations, 104 delegations from 36 countries, Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 26 famous universities, 49 top rank speakers, 11 famous domestic and foreign stock exchanges and 21 international stock exchanges and intermediaries took part in the “consultation and negotiation for Chinese enterprises listing at abroad”. During 6 days, there were 538 thousands visitors and the professional accounted for 83.1%.
CHTF 2006
CHTF2006 was held right after the decisions of the 11th 5-year plan, the strategic deploy of independent innovation passed by the plenary meeting of science and technology and the decision of building a harmonious socialist society at the 6th Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee. It has a great significance for increasing the industrialization and internationalization of the hi-tech achievements and the construction a country with innovative spirit.
CHTF 2006 was held at the fixed time (Oct.12th to 17th) at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center with six sectors: “The Commercialization of Hi-Tech Achievements”, “Specialized Show”, “World Economy, Science and Technology Forum”. “super-SUPER Special Events”, “Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange” and “A Year-round Fair”. Wu Yi, Vice Prime Minister of the State Council came again for the opening ceremony. This time, because of the joining of the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense, the number of hosts reached 11.
Sticking to the hot spots in the development of economy, science and technology, CHTF 2006 accentuated three themes, which were:”independent innovation, recycling economy and intellectual property rights protection”, and enhanced four functions, which were:”the service function of guiding the transformation of development mode with independent innovation, the function of arranging all kinds of resources for innovation such as technology, capital, information and talent, the commercialization function of hi-tech achievements’ commercialization, industrialization and internationalization and the platform function of high-level exchange and cooperation.”
CHTF 2006 was the first one to hold exhibitions about independent innovation and recycling economy. It also made breakthrough in internationalization and professionalization. The numbers of foreign governmental delegations, investors and international corporations all set up new records in the history of CHTF. The exhibition acreage of overseas exhibitors accounted for 39.6%, which was also a new record. The coming of 20 officials of ministerial level raised the forum to a new level. The exhibition of personal technological innovation built a free platform for common people declaring, displaying and transacting their inventive patents and innovative projects. The “Property Rights Protection Forum” made CHTF the first international grand fair that carried on “Blue Sky Exhibition Action” in a profound way, which further brought into play CHTF in stimulating and protecting innovation.
General data: 105 thousands square meters for exhibition, 3,728 enterprises, 9,765 thousands projects, 2,690 investors, 25 foreign government delegations, 42 countries and regions, 33 Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 27 famous universities, 8 famous domestic and foreign stock exchanges and 15 famous intermediaries. 66 famous international corporations and 8 domestic and foreign stock exchanges took in the “Global Stock Exchanges Summit”. 14 officials above ministerial level from 11 countries participated in the “Ministerial Forum”.
CHTF 2007
CHTF 2007 was held before the eve of the 17th Party Congress. Under the instruction of building an innovation-oriented country, CHTF set its eyes on three themes: “pushing forward opening–up and innovation”, “property rights protection” and “building a harmonious society” and played so important a role that none can take its place in increasing the adjustment of national economical structure and upgrading industry. CHTF 2007 continued the time and content arrangement of last one. This time, it invited Jiang Zhenghua, Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
CHTF 2007 first launched “1+3” series activities. It set up “U.S.A Stand Area” in “Overseas Hi-Technology and Product Hall”., at the same time, it held “the Cooperation between China and America in Industrial Technology Summit”, “the Convention of Foreign Product Purchase” and “the Promotion Conference on Foreign Product Purchase Policies” and such activities, which enhanced the functions of CHTF in importing hi-technologies and products. The first participation of the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense made the exhibition contents of CHTF richer and the fields it covered wider by showing the civilian hi-technologies in the field of national defense science and technology. There were more foreign exhibitors participating in the IT of CHTF, Opto-FPD and ELEXCON which showed their rising reputation and influence. The “Innovation Circle of Shenzhen and Hong Kong” jointly set up by the two cities marked their cooperation into the fast lane. The opening ceremony was first held in the night. CHTF 2007 first set up “Rights and Interests Protection Center” to offer the arbitration service during the fair, which was not only the first try of CHTF, but also the first case among all kinds of domestic and foreign exhibitions. CHTF also successfully held the branch of Specialized Show—2007 International Consumer Electronic Products Exhibition, which was totally operated according to the mode of “marketization”. The CHTF in Barcelona of Spain expanded CHTF’s influence more widely.
General data: 105 thousands square meters for exhibition, 3,527 enterprises, 16,067 thousands projects, 3,487 investors, 102 foreign delegations from 36 countries and regions, Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 72 international corporations, the exhibition acreage for overseas exhibitors 137 hundreds square meters, accounting for 40%. 17 officials above ministerial level from 8 countries and 7 senior managers from famous international corporations gave speeches at the forums, the number of visitors were 580 thousands and thousands of reporters from 260 media at home and abroad.
CHTF 2008
CHTF 2008 happened in such a year that it was not only the year of the 10th anniversary of CHTF, but also was the year of the 30th anniversary of China’s opening up and reform as well as the year of Beijing Olympic Games, which made CHTF 2008 very meaningful. Based on the experiences of last nine years, CHTF 2008 achieved new innovation and new record with the theme of “Science and Technology Improve People’s Livelihood, Innovation Changes the World”.
CHTF 2008 invited Sang Guowei, Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Li Jinhua, Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC and Wan Gang, Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC cum the Minister of Science and Technology to present the opening ceremony. It was honored that CHTF 2008 also received the instructions of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who said that: “The success of CHTF means a lot to increasing the industrialization of hi-technology, to improving independent innovation, to adjusting economic structure and to transforming development pattern. I hereby send my best wishes to CHTF 2008.” This year, CHTF 2008 set its eyes on “Science and Technology” and “People’s Livelihood“. Therefore, it showed the hi-technologies that made contributions to the earthquake relief work and reconstruction. It set up “Hi-Tech Olympics Specialized Show” to display all kinds of new technologies and new achievements in the Beijing Olympics Games from the enterprises that offered their support to the Games. All kinds of robots from “The International Robot Show” ignited the audiences’ imagination about people’s future life changed by the science and technology. CHTF 2008 held the first “Chinese Entrepreneurs Summit” and achieved a great success. The “Special Area of Establishing New Business and Listing of Business” retrospect the history of many enterprises that grew together with CHTF. Meanwhile, there were about one hundred scientific and technological innovation activities organized by CHTF 2008.
In order to commemorate the 30 anniversaries of opening-up and reform and the 10 anniversaries of CHTF, CHTF 2008 retrospect and summarized its 10-year development in the way of lobby exhibition as well as held a series of activities like “top 10 news”, “one hundred influential men”, “one thousand innovative enterprises” and “ten thousand industrialized hi-tech projects.”. the “National Hi-Tech Achievements Exhibition” jointly held by relative national ministries and academies, presented and reviewed Chinese hi-tech industry’s history and glorious achievements in 30 years’ opening up and reform and 10 years’ CHTF in a general and intense way.
General data: 105 thousands square meters for exhibition, 3,137 enterprises, 14,073 thousands projects, 2,546 investors, 110 foreign delegations from 40 countries and regions, Chinese provinces, autonomous prefectures and municipalities, cities with separate national economic and social development planning as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 89 international corporations, 11 officials above ministerial level from 7 countries and 9 senior managers from famous international corporations gave speeches at the forums, the number of visitors were 552 thousands and thousands of reporters from over 200 media at home and abroad.
CHTF 2009
CHITF 2009, as the 11th fair, had a great significance for serving as a link between past and future. It was held from 16th to 21st, November at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center by Ministry of Commerce of the P.R.C, Ministry of Science and Technology of the P.R.C, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the P.R.C, National/Development and Reform Commission of the P.R.C, Ministry of Education of the P.R.C, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the P.R.C, State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government. Its organizer is China Hi-Tech Transfer Center (Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center Management Co., Ltd.) and co-organizer is Ministry of Agriculture of the P.R.C. The theme of CHTF 2009 was “Innovation, Career, Development” with the same content as last one. At the opening ceremony, Zhou Tienong, Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Bai Lichen, Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC, delivered the opening speeches. Wang Rong, the Director of CHTF Organizing Committee, Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Acting Mayor of Shenzhen city hosted the opening ceremony. Leaders from Guangdong Province and Shenzhen city, such as Huang Huahua, Liu Yupu, Wang Shunsheng, Li Youwei presented the ceremony.
All the halls were put into use at CHTF 2009 with a total acreage of 100 thousands square meters, in which there were IT exhibition, ELEXCON exhibition, Opto-FPD exhibition, national hi-tech innovation achievement show, university hi-tech innovation achievement show, local hi-tech innovation achievement show, overseas hi-tech innovation achievement show, the special halls of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, moreover, the newly-added “New Energy and Energy Saving Exhibition Area” gathered the technologies, products and automobiles that were related with energy saving and environmental protection for the purpose of boosting the construction of resources saving and environment -friendly society in order to propel the implementation of the energy saving and emission reduction strategy.
Against the background of the People’s Republic of China’s 60th Anniversary and world financial crisis, CHTF 2009 showed the technological achievements related with the 60th anniversary and the national “the Planning for Adjusting and Rejuvenating Top 10 Key Industries”, which included the independent innovation achievements and projects from Chinese Academy of Sciences in its 60 years and the achievements from the National Development and Reform Commission which organized representative enterprises in the above-mentioned top 10 industries with the theme of “enhance independent innovation and rejuvenate the top 10 industries”.
CHTF 2009 highlighted the characteristic of “Green Fair” from different aspects such as “green IT” by IT exhibition, energy-saving and environmental protection by ELEXCON, green concept by Ministry of Agriculture as well as other similar projects by different provinces and cities. Besides, CHTF advocated “Green Designing and Fixing” by recycling the materials.
CHTF 2009 also accentuated the cooperation between regions which could be seen from the designs made by all provinces and cities in their own exhibition areas according to the national layout about regional economy, such as “Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle”, “Pearl River Delta Economic Circle”, “Bohai Economic Circle”, “Northeast Economic Circle”, “Western Economic Circle”, “Central Economical Circle”, etc. to fully show their scientific and technological achievements, the results of constructing regional innovation system and their important role in boosting regional economic development.
During the period of CHTF 2009, Ministerial Forum, Chinese and Foreign CEO Forum, Capital Market Forum, Chinese Entrepreneurs Forum were held respectively with the themes “the development strategies for emerging industries leading economic recovery”, “crisis, reform, sustainable development”, “growth enterprise market and innovation enterprise development”, “business life and fortune-making dreams”. 16 officials above ministerial level were present at “Ministerial Forum”, and the top-rank speakers were high-level managers, experts and scholars coming from Dupont, Hitachi, IDG, BYD, EVOC, London exchange, China Securities Regulatory Commission, etc.
At the aspect of organizing the fair, more innovative actions were carried out such as the time of CHTF was adjusted to November 16th-21st every year and through ticket was sold with which visitors could enjoy the fair till the last day as well as magcard ticket.
General data: 3,023 enterprises, 15,187 thousands projects, 2,546 investors, the number of visitors were 506 thousands and nearly 1,300 reporters from over 200 media at home and abroad, 106 foreign delegations from 49 countries and regions, among them, 17 countries such as Russia, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Korea, etc. organized 26 delegations for the CHTF, which all outnumbered last year’s.
CHTF 2010
As usual, CHTF 2010 opened on 16th-21st, November at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center with the theme of “Science and technology leading transformation and innovation driving development forward”, whose hosts were expanded to 11 for the entrance of Ministry of Agriculture which before was a co-host. The contents were six sectors: commercialization of hi-tech achievements, specialized show (IT of CHTF, ELEXCON, Opto-FPD, New energy and Energy saving), China Hi-tech Forum, super-SUPER Special Events, Hi-tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange and a Year-round Fair. Hall 5 first came into service which made the total exhibition acreage reach to 105 thousand square meters.
The distinguished guests invited to address the opening ceremony were Hui Liangyu, Vice Premier of State Council cum member of the Communist Party’s Politburo and Jiang Yaoping, Vice Secretary of Ministry of Commerce cum Vice director of CHTF Organizing Committee, Mr. Xu Qin, Mayor of Shenzhen city cum Director of CHTF Organizing Committee, hosted the opening ceremony, Huang Huahua, Provincial Governor of Guangdong Province, Wang Rong, Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Secretary cum Member of Guangdong Provincial Party Standing Committee, etc. were present at the occasion.
This CHTF not only had a strong hosts’ group but also realized “family union” by gathering the delegations from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Respect to the arranging exhibition areas, projects, forums and organizing activities, all paid attention to the theme of energy saving and emission reduction, green and low carbon as well as increasing transformation by adjusting structure and the strategic emerging industries.
Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission and Chinese Academy of Sciences came for CHTF 2010 with their own special halls, while Ministry of Agriculture and State Intellectual Property Office with groups. The themes of special halls were as follows: Ministry of Commerce: “Boost the development of trade by depending on scientific and technological innovation”, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: “Industrial energy saving and comprehensive utilization”, National Development and Reform Commission: “Increasing the step of nurturing and developing strategic emerging industries”, Ministry of Agriculture: “Science and technology leading modern agriculture”, State Intellectual Property Office: “The exhibition of invention and intellectual property achievements”. Also, they held many forums such as “Forum on the development of strategic emerging industries”, “Forum on Industrial energy saving and comprehensive utilization”, “Forum on low-carbon agriculture and emission reduction”, “International innovation Convention”, “Academician Forum on robot and intelligent information system” and “Forum on biological industry”, which all showed the role of CHTF in leading the development of emerging industries.
Regarding specialized show, CHTF upgraded “new energy and energy saving exhibition” to make it one of specialized shows of CHTF with a purpose of fully displaying the latest scientific and technological achievements in this field. The other original three specialized shows (IT, ELEXCON and Opto-FPD) all set eyes on green, energy saving products and technologies.
China Hi-tech forum of CHTF 2010 added “low-carbon technologies and new energy development summit” besides “ministerial forum”, “capital market forum” and “Chinese entrepreneurs summit”.
General data: 2,775 enterprises, 12,793 thousands projects, 2,438 investors, the number of visitors were 525 thousands and nearly 1,200 reporters from over 150 media at home and abroad, 106 foreign delegations from 49 countries and regions.
