WTCA Boosts Its Participation at 2015 CIFIT

XIAMEN, CHINA – September 8, 2015 – The World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) is pleased to announce that Mr. Ghazi Abu Nahl, Chairman of WTCA, was joined by more than 50 representatives of 21 World Trade Centers (WTCs) and business delegations from Middle-East, Europe, Africa and the Greater China region to attend the 2015 China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) in Xiamen, China.

The 2015 WTCA participation in CIFIT is supported by the newly-established World Trade Center Xiamen owned by China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Xiamen Sub-Council. As part of 2015 WTCA CIFIT program, the WTCA and WTC Xiamen will co-host a major “World Business Leaders Roundtable” with a focus on cross-border e-commerce and speakers from Alibaba, Amazon, Google, China Britain Business Council (CBBC), the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and other major organizations. In addition, the WTCA CIFIT program features a WTCA Pavilion which demonstrates WTCA brand and its global network, a matchmaking event co-hosted by CCPIT Fujian Sub-Council and participated by more than one hundred companies from China and aboard, WTC roundtable and workshop, high-level meetings with government and business leaders, and reception and other networking events.

For the past three years, the WTCA organized large participation to CIFIT with the WTCA Pavilion and the WTCA China Forums which featured Mr. Long Yongtu, former Vice Minister of MOFCOM and chief negotiator for China’s accession to WTO, Mr. Justin Yifu Lin, Director of Beijing University China Centre for Economic Research and former Chief Economist/Senior Vice President for World Bank, Mr. Jia Kang, Director and Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Science Research under the Ministry of Finance and Advisor of Fujian Municipal Government, and Mr. Li Daokui, former member of the Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee and Professor of Tsinghua University.

“Last September, I had the pleasure to lead the WTCA delegation to attend the 18th CIFIT in the City of Xiamen. During the program, I was honored to have met senior government and business leaders from Fujian Province and the rest of China and the world, and was deeply impressed by both the CIFIT exhibitions and forums. I am glad that the WTCA is organizing yet another program for this year’s CIFIT with the support from our WTC Xiamen. I would like to invite everyone to visit our Pavilion and attend the matchmaking session thus to have shared with you how the WTCA can contribute to the development of China and the world. In WTCA,‘we grow trade’.” said Mr. Abu Nahl.

Participating WTCs include WTC Algiers, WTC Accra, WTC Beijing, WTC Chengdu, China WTC (Beijing), WTC Chongqing, WTC Cyprus, WTC Fuzhou, WTC Hunchun, WTC Jiaxing, WTC Kunming, WTC Nanjing, WTC Nanning, WTC Qatar, WTC Quanzhou, WTC Riyadh, WTC Suzhou, Taipei WTC, WTC Taichung, WTC Xiamen and WTC Zhengzhou.

About WTCA: 

Founded in 1970, the World Trade Centers Association is a nonprofit, non-political association dedicated to the establishment and effective operation of World Trade Centers as instruments for the promotion of international trade. Currently, there are more than 300 World Trade Centers in nearly 100 countries around the world. Served by each of these World Trade Centers is a growing list of an estimated hundreds of thousands of businesses all in pursuit of new customers, sources of supply and opportunities for investment. For more information, please visit www.wtca.org.

About CIFIT: 

Approved by China’s State Council and sponsored solely by China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the China International Fair for Investment and Trade is the only international investment promoting event featuring two-way investment facilitation in China. For the past 17 years, exhibiting countries or regions convene in Xiamen, China at this annual exposition for a series of activities including professional business matchmaking, forums and seminars. CIFIT serves not only as an important gateway for China to attract foreign investment, but also as a bridge for outbound investment to Chinese businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.chinafair.org.cn/english/index/index.aspx.

Contact:

Mr. Scott Wang
WTCA Vice President, Asia Pacific
Telephone: +86-13620225830 (China)
+1-212-432-2706 (USA)
E-mail: swang@wtca.org