Good business scene to boost growth

A lot of media friends have asked me what impressions I have of the fairs I've attended, from the Canton Fair in the early 1970s to the first China International Import Expo, which was held in Shanghai recently.

I told them that an export expo focuses mainly on the exporting country, but an import expo focuses on other countries, and not all countries in the world can organize a Shanghai-type import expo.

I helped to host the Canton Fair once, and participated in the China Hi-Tech Fair, but I have never seen an exhibition as exciting and promising as the import expo, with foreign businesspeople marveling at its sheer size and the huge number of participants. Just as the Kenyan trade minister said, if every Chinese gets used to a cup of coffee every day, the coffee they would consume would be more than five times Kenya's total coffee yield. He also said he hoped Kenya could export more coffee to China.