What they say

It is my first time at the China International Fair for Investment and Trade, which is well organized and interesting. I have a glass factory in Poland and want to search for cooperation opportunities through this trip to Xiamen. I participated in many talks and meetings during the four-day fair and found my trade partner. I will export glass in my factory and import Chinese glass. I would like to come to the fair next year, which will help with my business expansion.

Bartosz Browarny, marketing director of Crystal Glass Factory in Poland

Our chamber is one of the biggest international chambers in India, with 75,000 members and more than 400 million registrations. And we already have close cooperation with China. We hope to attract Chinese and global investors to launch businesses in India through the platform, which has attracted many high-quality businessmen, politicians and international guests. For next year's fair, the SME Chamber of India will launch a series of cooperation projects with CIFIT and bring more Indian businesses to Xiamen.

Chandrakant Salunkhe, founder and president of the SME Chamber of India

I came to the fair for the first time, and it is one of the best. The fair is a great opportunity for local and national companies looking for some investors. We've actually had very good negotiations. We have a list of different projects and we are going to have different memorandums of understanding, some contracts, in order to have a kind of collaboration. We target projects like energy, solar power plants, and in agriculture, tourism and construction of hotels and different complexes. We have had some very good negotiation results.

Fazel Khayyat, investment expert of the Khorasan Razavi Center of Investment Services

I am very impressed with the fair. There are a lot of promotions from the Chinese regions and provinces and that was a big plus for me, and also other countries exhibiting in the fair as well, like Ghana, Mali, Jordan, the Czech Republic and Japan. I have been in seminars and seen exhibitions and I was very impressed with the movement by Chinese investors looking for other locations, but also looking to attract higher-valued activities into China.

Armando E. Heilbron, investment promotion workstream leader of World Bank Group

(China Daily 09/11/2018 page15)