A host of cutting-edge products and technologies representing new quality driving forces will make debuts at the upcoming 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) from November 5 to 10 in Shanghai, organizers said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
The overall exhibition area of the expo will exceed 420,000 square meters, and 152 countries, regions and international organizations will participate in national exhibitions and business exhibitions, while the Hongqiao International Economic Forum will feature the main forum and 19 parallel sessions, according to Tang Wenhong, China's Assistant Minister of Commerce.
The innovation incubation special section of the business exhibition will for the first time focus on digital economy, green and low-carbon, life science and manufacturing technologies to present the section's largest ever exhibition among all CIIE editions in terms of exhibition area and the number of exhibits, Wu Zhengping, deputy director of the China International Import Expo Bureau, told reporters.
The technical equipment section will focus on science and technology, industries, and environmental protection, while the science and technology section will for the first time set up a new special section for new materials, according to Wu.
"At the 7th CIIE, a batch of exhibits representing new quality driving forces will make debuts, covering high-end equipment, new materials, marine engineering equipment, biotechnology, advanced agricultural technology and other cutting-edge sci-tech fields," Wu said.
The Hongqiao International Economic Forum, a key part of the expo, will host discussions on artificial intelligence, new energy storage, new energy vehicles, sustainable city construction and other topics at its sub-forums.
On the sidelines of the forum, activities themed "new quality productive forces drive green and sustainable development" will be held to explore paths toward green and sustainable development for businesses.
As the world's first national-level import-themed expo, the CIIE is held annually at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai.
Since its first edition in 2018, this expo has become an important stage spotlighting China's new development paradigm, a platform for high-level opening-up and a public good for the whole world.
7th CIIE to feature debuts of exhibits representing new quality driving forces: organizers
7th CIIE to feature debuts of exhibits representing new quality driving forces: organizers
HarmonyOS NEXT has set a model for building operating system ecosystem, said an expert on Tuesday following the launch of the first fully homegrown operating system developed by Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Huawei on Tuesday released the milestone operating system in Shenzhen City of south China's Guangdong Province, marking a watershed achievement in developing China's homegrown mobile operating system.
It has also become the third-largest mobile operating system, following Apple's iOS and Android.
The newly released native HarmonyOS has achieved full-stack independent development, covering everything from the operating system kernel, file system, programming language, compiler, and programming framework, to the AI framework and large models.
It has become China's first fully independently-developed mobile operating system. Previous versions of HarmonyOS had utilized parts of Android's open-source code.
"Our function has shown holistic leap thanks to our brand-new systemic framework. We've deeply integrated the ecosystem of software, hardware, and cloud, resulting in a more than 30 percent increase in smoothness. With our new distributed soft bus, we've achieved seamless cross-end collaboration, offering a natural and frictionless experience. This marks a further upgrade in our full-scenario experience, with connection speeds tripling, connection capacity increasing fourfold, and power consumption reduced by more than 20 percent," said Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei.
The biggest difference between the newly released HarmonyOS and Android or Apple's systems lies in its use of a distributed architecture, which enables cross-device collaboration. Developers can achieve one-time development and multi-device deployment. This stems from the fact that HarmonyOS was initially designed with the Internet of Everything in mind.
It is known that there are now over 15,000 native HarmonyOS applications and meta services available, covering 18 industries. General office applications can provide services to more than 38 million businesses nationwide.
"We've often said that China's IT industry lacks both chips and soul. After the chip issue was alleviated, the 'soul-lacking' referred to our dependence on foreign operating systems. With the launch of Huawei's HarmonyOS, we've largely addressed this 'soul' issue. If we think of the mobile internet as a piece of land, we finally have our own land where we can plant our crops. In the past, we were planting our crops on someone else's land. The success of HarmonyOS has established a model for building an operating system ecosystem, which I believe is the most pivotal achievement," said Xu Zhen, researcher, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
HarmonyOS NEXT symbolizes ingenuity of China's homegrown operating system: expert
HarmonyOS NEXT symbolizes ingenuity of China's homegrown operating system: expert
