The 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) is drawing near. On July 25, the CIFTIS Executive Committee announced the information about the first batch of 80 forums and conferences to be held at CIFTIS 2022, involving multiple fields such as the digital economy, trade and investment, life services, green and low-carbon development, and healthcare.

The digital economy will remain a focus of CIFTIS 2022. A series of forums and conferences will be held during the trade fair as a platform for global exchanges and cooperation in the digital economy, including the Forum on Trends and Latest Developments of Digital Trade, the China Intelligent Industry Forum 2022, the Forum on Channeling Computing Resources from the East to the West, the 2022 Digital Trade Development Forum, the 2022 Digital Economy Development Conference, the Forum on Information and Communication Cooperation and Development under the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Summit Forum on Development Trends of WEB3.0.

Green and sustainable development has become a global consensus. In this regard, a lot of forums and conferences will be held during the trade fair to explore global cooperation in green and sustainable development from different perspectives, including the 2022 China Carbon Neutrality and Economic Development Forum, the Meteorological Economics Summit Forum, the "Zero-Carbon China, Green Development" Forum for International Cooperation, the 3rd International Summit Forum on Green Development, the Global Ecological Sustainable Development Summit, the Forum on Cooperation between Social Organizations and Enterprises in the Context of Global Climate Change and the Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals.

As for trade and investment, CIFTIS 2022 will continue its role as a national-level exhibition platform for business opportunities sharing and win-win cooperation among global service trade companies, with many relevant forums and conferences to be held, such as the Forum on Emerging Trends in the Opening-Up and Development of Trade in Services, the Forum on Trade Facilitation in Services: Perspective of the Multinationals, the Summit Forum on China's International Economic Cooperation "Going Global", the Beijing "Two Zones" and Corporate Globalization Forum 2022, the China International Finance Annual Forum 2022, the 2022 International Forum on South-South Cooperation and Trade in Services, and a series of activities of Latin American and Caribbean countries.

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the world, boosting consumption is of growing importance to economic recovery. At CIFTIS 2022, a big highlight will be forums and conferences on the life services sector, such as the Conference on the Development of the Life Services Sector, the Forum on Sino-Finnish Cross-Border Cooperation in Life Health and The Conference on Matchmaking of Elderly Health and Care Projects, the 2nd Forum on New Consumption in China's Health Industry, the Smart Health and Retirement Summit 2022, and the Beijing Catering Brand Conference 2022.