Sixth China Int'l Import Expo opens in Shanghai

President Xi Jinping sent a letter to the sixth China International Import Expo (CIIE), which opened in Shanghai on Sunday.

First held in 2018, the annual expo has leveraged the strengths of China's enormous market, fulfilled its platform function for international procurement, investment promotion, people-to-people exchanges and open cooperation, and made positive contribution to creating a new development pattern and promoting world economic development, Xi said in the letter.

Noting that the world economic recovery lacks momentum, Xi said China will always be an important opportunity for global development.

He pledged that China will firmly advance high-standard opening-up and continue to make economic globalization more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial to all.

Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago are participating. Both countries have booths in the exhibition hall.

The sixth China International Import Expo (CIIE) is held at Shanghai's National Exhibition and Convention Center from November 5 to 10 this year, drawing exhibitors from 154 countries, regions and international organizations. The expo is expected to feature 3,400 exhibitors and over 410,000 visitors, a return to the pre-pandemic level.