Fair to sharpen Beijing's edge in services

Multinational exhibitors flock to city's National Convention Center

The exposition that opened this week in Beijing is expected to enhance the municipality's quality of trade in services as the city restructures its growth outlook, experts said.

"The headquarters of Beijing's services businesses - State-owned, private and foreign-invested ones - accounted for almost half of the municipality's total value-added businesses and about 60 percent of the city's income and tax revenue," Lu Yan, director general of Beijing's municipal commerce commission, said on Wednesday.