2019 China（Hunan）International Rail Transit Industry Expo

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2018 China (Changsha) International Rail Transit Industry Expo

Jointly sponsored by the China Railway Society, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Hunan Sub-council, the People’s Government of Changsha Municipality, the People’s Government of Zhuzhou Municipality, CRRC Corporation Limited., China Railway Signal & Communication Co., Ltd., and China Metro Holding Group Co., Ltd, the 2018 China (Hunan) International Rail Transit Industry Expo was held in Hunan on November 15-17, 2018.

Attendees included: leaders of relevant national ministries, commissions and national industry organizations, major leaders of Hunan Province and other relevant provinces (municipalities), diplomatic envoys to China and business representatives from over 20 countries along the “Belt and Road”, academicians, experts, scholars, and important industrial representatives.

Lu Pengqi, Vice Chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Tian Hongqi, President of the Central South University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Hu Zhongxiong, Deputy Secretary of CPC Changsha Municipal Committee of and Mayor of Changsha and Huang Fang, Vice Mayor of Zhuzhou Municipal People's Government etc. delivered a speech at the opening ceremony. He Baoxiang, Deputy Governor of Hunan Province, announced the opening.

Covering an exhibition area of nearly 40 thousand m2 and with “Rail Transit Changing the World” as the theme, the Expo existed as a platform for exhibitors to showcase their latest technologies, new products and results in rail transit. These exhibitors included: CRRC Group Co., Ltd., CRSC Corp. Ltd., HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd., Transdev Group, and other 200 home and abroad leading rail transit industries and relevant enterprises. The Expo received 24 thousand visits of professionals of home and abroad rail transit industries and practitioners of other industries. Together they secured projects with cooperation intention valued at nearly RMB 100 million.

At this year's fair, a large number of new technologies and new products for rail transit were exhibited. A batch of new equipment represented by the 250 km/h power-distributed aluminum alloy double-layer EMU from CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. was unveiled for the first time and added a brilliant brilliance for the Expo. In addition, CRRC Corporation Limited., China Railway Signal & Communication Co., Ltd., HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd., Changsha Metro Group Co., Ltd. and other rail transit companies have also demonstrated the latest research and development of cutting-edge technologies and high-tech achievements including face recognition, new intelligent control and driverless driving.

During the Expo, the High-level Forum on Urban Rail Transit Development Model, “Belt and Road” Rail Transit Corporate Matchmaking Fair and Rail Transit Enterprise Roadshow were held to provide the best platform for domestic and international rail transit industry to display products, communicate and cooperation.

Among them, the forum brought together Fu Zhihuan, the former minister of railways and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Sun Yongfu , administrative vice minister of the former ministry of railways and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and other well-known experts, scholars，executives in the rail transit industry to discuss the development of rail transit. There were nearly 20 countries purchasing enterprises face to face communicate with the exhibitors, the Matchmaking Fair set up a communication bridge for enterprises and buyers.

The event was covered from different perspectives by nearly 50 mainstream media institutions (such as CCTV, People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Hunan Daily, Hunan TV and other media directly under the Central Government), and industrial media agencies (such as People Rail Newspaper, World Rail Transit, High Speed Rail and Rail Transit, Modern Urban Rail Transit, Belt and Road Reporting and other industry media, as well as overseas industry media Eurail press, Railway Gazette, Tunnels And Tunnelling). In addition, the Expo adopted the live broadcast method for the first time, and transmitted the live situation of the Expo to the outside world in real time. The all-round publicity of the Expo generating extensive influence at home and abroad.

“China (Hunan) International Rail Transit Industry Expo” was successfully held in Changsha for three sessions in 2016, 2017 and 2018.It produced an important significance to echo China's economic driving effect, to serve the "Belt and Road" initiative and "China Manufacturing 2025 traffic Power" and other national strategies, to promote China's rail transit industry transformation and upgrading, to achieve the rail transit industry powerhouse, as well as to speed up the high-quality development of the rail transit equipment industry.