Macao’s premier trade fair partners with Shanghai for the first time, expected to draw thousands of participants on and offline from around the world.
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Programme also seeks to attract top health, finance, technology, culture and sports professionals to aid city’s economic diversification.
Forum more than lives up to its name, providing a lucrative rendez-vous for executives from China and Portuguese-speaking countries.
Covid-19 stymies one of the year’s key cross-border trade events, however organisers are confident that it will go ahead on 3-5 September.
More than 500 businesses and retailers get a free pitch; visitors can enjoy all the fun of the fair for three whole days.
Lawmakers point the finger at trade body’s sluggish and lax procedures, in the wake of strong criticism by Macao’s graft busters.
The theme of the three-day 2020 Guangdong & Macao Branded Product Fair (GMBPF) was entitled “Guangdong – Macao Cuisine Channel” as it used culinary delights to attract consumers.
At Thursday’s opening ceremony of the International Environmental Crisis Management Forum and Exhibition (IECMF), Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) President Benson Lau Wai Meng said in a speech that Macao’s expo business was gradually making a comeback.
The International Science, Technology and Innovation Forum (ISTIF) of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) will be held in Macao again next year, BFA Secretary General Li Baodong, a former foreign minister, said on Wednesday, adding that a science technology expo will take place concurrently.