| The first Chongqing High-Tech Fair was
jointly held by Commission of Science, Technology and Industry
for National Defense, China Association of Inventions and Chongqing
Municipal Government in 1999, the year of Marshal Nie Rongzhen's
100th birth anniversary, to push forward the west development
and promote regional economic and technological cooperation.
The Ministry of Science and Technology and China Academy of
Sciences joined in the sponsors' group for on the third Chongqing
High-Tech Fair held in 2001. Accompanying the 5th high-tech
fair, the First China International Military-Civilian Scientific
Expo was firstly launched in 2003. It's now the 7th Chonging
High-Tech Fair and the 3rd China International Military-Civilian
Scientific Expo since the first such event was held in 1999.
Regarding the fair as an important platform for west development
and civil and military technological integration, the 5 sponsors,
together with the 11 military industrial groups such as PLA
Headquarters of the General Staff, PLA General Arms Dept,
China Nuclear Industry Group, and China Aeronautics Science
and Technology Corporation, all present a big batch of new
& high-tech projects on the fair.
11 western provinces such as Guizhou, Sichuan, Gansu and
Yunnan organize enterprise groups to take part in the fair
every year, and Beijing, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shandong
are also active participants of the fair, taking the fair
as an ideal platform for technology transactions. Foreign
countries such as Russia, Germany, Canada and Japan also send
delegation to participate in the fair. The Fortune 500 companies
such as Motorola, Ericsson, China Tele-com, China Putian,
Lenovo, and China FAW Corporation, as well as a series of
universities including National University of Defense Technology,
Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Beijing
Institute of Technology, all view the fair as an ideal platform
for new products and new technologies exhibition.
Chongqing High-Tech Fair has received great support from top
national bodies like CPC Central Committee, NPC Standing Committee,
State Council and CPPCC in the past few years. Vice Premier
Huang Ju, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of
Central Political Bureau, and Former Premier Li Peng, Li Lanqing
and Jiang Chunyun have all sent their congratulatory messages
to the fair. State councilor Chen Zhili, Vice Chairman of
the NPC Xu Jialu, Jiang Zhenghua, Wu Jieping, Zhou Guangzhao,
Hu Qili and Yang Rudai have come themselves to supervise the
work for the fair.
Altogether 436 delegations have taoken part in the fair in
the past 6 years, signing the agreements for nearly 1000 out
of the total 32,000 exhibited projects, with a total contract
value of 41 billion and 564 million yuan renminbi. Chongqing
has been the biggest beneficiary of the fair, with the technological
transaction value accounting for more than half of its total
transaction volume in the field. The city has been the largest
technology trading center in west China with its own technological
transaction value ranking the first in the region in the past
6 fairs held here. With its scale and influence expanding,
Chonging High-Tech Fair has become one of China's, or even
the world's most influential fairs, and has contributed much
to China's west development and the social-economic development
of Chongqing City itself.
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