[1] It will feature exhibitions of multiple countries and businesses and the Hongqiao International Economic and Trade Forum.
CIIE was personally proposed and announced by Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
[2][3][4] The expo is co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Shanghai Municipal Government.
[2] Drawing 400,000 registrations,[8] the expo has been criticized as being of mostly symbolic value, with half of the deals signed not being executed according to European business representatives.
[9][10] The 2019 edition was also opened by Xi Jinping and notably visited by French President Emmanuel Macron.