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The newly built Ningxia International Conference Center, a landmark in Ningxia, is the host venue for the expo. wu heng / for China Daily |
"So far, we have received very active and positive response from Arab nations."
Jordan has been invited as the expo's guest country of honor and its top officials in charge of agriculture, technology and education are expected to attend. Egypt has been selected as the next guest country for the 2017 expo, Zhang said.
In 2012, the State Council approved Ningxia as a pilot region for the opening of the country's western inland economy. Two years later, Yinchuan the capital city established a center of information technology, biotechnology and application for intellectual property rights.
More than 380 companies from big data, e-commerce, the Internet of things and cloud computing sectors have settled in the center, according to local officials.
The cross-border e-commerce business is also developing rapidly in Ningxia, with the value of online transactions exceeding 460 billion yuan by the end of last year.
Ningxia began hosting the China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum in 2010. With the approval of the State Council, the forum was upgraded and renamed the China-Arab States Expo last year.
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