First China Smart City Expo to open in Ningbo
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:03
The other day, Ningbo held a second meeting on the preparation of the Smart City Expo Ningbo China 2011. According to the meeting, so far, 70% of exhibition stalls have been ordered. Chen Xin, Vice Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, and Yu Hongyi, Member of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, attended the meeting. The theme of the first China Smart City Expo is "Exhibit technologies of smart city" and it is jointed sponsored by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Engineering, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and Ningbo Municipal Government. The expo is to have two parts: exhibitions and forums. The place for the exhibitions will be Ningbo International Conference and Exhibition Center, with the area of about 20,000 sq m, and 1,000 standard stalls. Of the 4 exhibition halls, the mail hall will be for the themed exhibition and for large enterprises, and the other 3 halls will be for the three largest operators of communications and their partners. The exhibitions are estimated to have 15,000 professional businesses and 15,000 ordinary visitors. So far, the work of the exhibition invitation has been completed by 70%. During the expo, there will open 5 forums: the Summit Forum of Smart Cities, China Meeting of Electronic Services, Summit Forum of Smart Health, Summit Forum of the Integration of the Three Nets, and the Summit Forum of Smart Equipment. So far, the plans for the forums have been fixed and the invitation is going on. Chen Xin emphasized that with the approaching of the expo, we still have to work hard work for the preparation. Related departments should do their best for the preparations including such work as business invitation, preparation for the forums, and opening and closing ceremonies and so on.
