Import expo serves as key platform for global trade

More than 3,000 companies from 150 countries and regions will show their products at this year's CIIE

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of special reports by China Daily on the second China International Import Expo, which will open in Shanghai in November. Proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2017, the expo marks China's new round of advancing high-level opening-up and further expanding its market access to the rest of the world.

Designed to be a major platform for the country's import expansion, the China International Import Expo, or CIIE, which is now in its second year, has received a warm welcome from companies at home and abroad.