On January 11, the 2025 Beijing Roundtable Meeting for International Convention and Exhibition Organizations was held in Beijing. 15 guests from the international exhibition industry engaged in dialogue and exchanges around two topics: "How Conventions and Exhibitions Empower Urban Industrial Development" and "How the Convention and Exhibition Industry Drives Urban Consumption".

Participants were from more than ten countries and regions, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Singapore. The gathering of industry leaders at the meeting is a clear recognition of Beijing's influence in the global convention and exhibition industry, and demonstrates the confidence of the international community in China's development prospects.

In recent years, Beijing has hosted various branded convention and exhibition events such as the China International Fair for Trade in Services, Zhongguancun Forum, Beijing Culture Forum, Financial Street Forum, and China Beijing International High-tech Expo, further enhancing its influence in the international convention and exhibition industry. The organizers of the meeting stated that the purpose of this meeting was to build a platform for communication and cooperation, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with well-known international convention and exhibition organizations and industry institutions, attract internationally recognized exhibitions, enterprises, and institutions that align with the capital's functional positioning to land and hold exhibitions in Beijing, and support Beijing in becoming an internationally influential exhibition hub, thereby advancing the city's development as an international consumption city.

(Source: Beijing Daily)