Import expo in Shanghai concludes successful run

The China International Import Expo concluded its second edition on Sunday with even more fruitful results than the first, showing China's resolution to further open up and inject long-term energy for more sustained development of the world economy, industry leaders said.

The value of deals emerging from the six-day event topped $71.13 billion, up 23 percent from the event in 2018. The CIIE bureau said on Sunday that at least 391 new products, technologies or services were released in this year's CIIE.

"As President Xi Jinping mentioned in the keynote speech at the opening ceremony, China is determined to advance opening-up by 'tearing down walls' and not erecting them. From a pure business standpoint, we support openness and free trade, as our company does 90 percent of its business outside its home country of Germany," said Maximilian Foerst, president of Zeiss Greater China.