The 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) will take place from September 12th to 16th at the China National Convention Center and Shougang Park under the theme "Global Services, Shared Prosperity". Honored to be the permanent venue of CIFTIS, Shougang Park made great efforts to launch the Shougang International Convention and Exhibition Center with 14 modern exhibition halls available. During this year’s CIFTIS, nine special exhibitions will be grandly staged at Shougang Park, which will certainly give visitors a wonderful experience. 

As one of the highlights of this year’s CIFTIS, the Special Exhibition on Environmental Services will debut in Hall 1, which is a complex for convention and exhibition purposes based on the previous Blast Furnace #4 after integrated renovation. Such renovation demonstrates venue upgrading while directing a modern development trend featuring sci-tech and green priorities. Therefore, in this year’s CIFTIS, the organizing team of the Special Exhibition on Environmental Services will do their utmost to create a permanent “Blast Furnace Forum” brand, and corresponding forum events are intended to be hosted at every year’s CIFTIS as standard. Covering an area of about 12,000 m2 and themed “Dual-carbon empowerment to innovation impetus”, this special exhibition features such different zones as green energy, carbon neutrality technology, and the circular economy. Its exhibitors include Fortune Global 500 companies, COEs and SOEs, and leading companies in the green and low-carbon industry. Many leading-edge technologies at home and abroad will debut at this year’s CIFTIS, and several key achievements in this field will be released. Under the theme "Driving technology innovation to become the first competitiveness and leading green, low carbon, and high-quality development", the Shougang Group will also be an exhibitor of this special exhibition in order to showcase its innovation achievements and development progress in the green and low-carbon field.

Halls 2 and 3 of Shougang Park will be the venues for the Special Exhibition on Telecommunications, Computer, and Information Services, involving such different fields as telecommunication services, digital technologies, AI, integrated circuits, IIOT, specialized and sophisticated SMEs, and international innovative technologies. The exhibition will also focus on various hot topics including the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, intelligent manufacturing, innovative commercial cipher technology, and consumer technology, while paying close attention to the hotspots of next-generation internet and consumer electronics represented by GLMs, digital humans, VR, and others. In this way, the event will comprehensively reflect the rapid development trend of telecommunications, computer, and information services, and promote the growth of trade in services by leveraging new technologies and experience. Centering around “new” trends, this special exhibition will consist of seven zones, namely telecommunication services, AI, smart life, intelligent manufacturing, specialized and sophisticated, incubation for international innovation, and the innovative application experience center for frontier Metaverse technology. With the help of the relevant organizations, it will also host dozens of conferences and forum events related to computing capacity services, AIGC innovative development, technical equipment for AI manufacturing and power systems, development of the industries of the future, and corporate digital transformation. 

Halls 4 and 5 host the Special Exhibition on Financial Services, centering around key tasks such as pursuing the high-quality development of the financial industry, constructing a financial powerhouse, offering high-quality services for economic and social development, and realizing the high-standard opening-up of the financial industry. Featuring a “5+2” layout, this special exhibition will cover five specialized zones (fintech, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance) and two themed zones (the Thematic Exhibition on the 10th Anniversary of Finance Serving the Coordinated Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and Joint Exhibition on International Finance) for the purposes of delivering larger and better exhibitions on financial services and further building a convention and exhibition platform for the financial industry characterized by openness, integration, and pragmatism. 

Hall 6 is home to the Special Exhibition on Healthcare Services. Oriented towards the “integration of medical treatment, medical insurance, and medicine supply” and “integration of production, teaching, research, and application”, this special exhibition consists of the Industry Zone, Workmanship Zone, and TCM zone, showcasing technologies, products, and services involved in the whole health cycle from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to rehabilitation. Its exhibitors include healthcare institutions and leading and innovative enterprises that excel in pharmaceuticals and medical apparatus, innovative products, digital and intelligent medical equipment, and wellness management services. Concurrent events such as the Capital International Medical Congress, public health conferences, promotion and business matching sessions, and closed-door discussions will be organized, appealing to a large number of attendees in the industry from the competent authorities, international health organizations, national business associations, medical institutions, higher education and research institutions, leading enterprises, financial institutions, internet platforms, and other organizations. In this way, an integrated international platform featuring comprehensiveness and high quality will be established for communicating regulatory policies, interpreting industrial policies, promoting academic and research exchanges, displaying products and services, incubating innovation achievements, negotiating trade transactions, publicizing health care knowledge, and cultivating talents. 

Hall 7 serves as the venue for the Special Exhibition on Education Services which will present achievements made by domestic and international communities in educational cooperation, excellent cases of the branding and “going global” strategies of high-quality education groups in China, innovative education/teaching scenarios related to AI, ChatGPT, and VR, and other contents. Regarding the exhibition layout, a specialized zone for Sino-French educational cooperation is set up to invite French educational institutions, organizations specializing in Sino-French joint education programs, French language training agencies, agencies for study in France, and France-based high-tech enterprises for a joint exhibition. Hall 7 also hosts the Study in China Zone, Smart Education Zone, Sci-Tech Achievement Transformation Zone, and Educational Books and Copyright Licensing Business Zone. 

Halls 8 and 12 are used for the Special Exhibition on Sports Services. Centering around internationalization, industrialization, and digitalization, it consists of five zones within the 11,100 m2 venue area, namely international sports and event services, winter sports and achievements of the 2022 Winter Olympics, sports integration services, sports consumption services, and outdoor sports and lifestyle. Concurrent events include the International Sports Services Trade Development Conference (2024 CIFTIS Sports Services Main Forum), Forum on New Quality Productive Forces for the Sports Industry, Digital Sports Development Forum, and many other supporting activities. 

The Special Exhibition on Cultural and Tourism Services is staged at Halls 9 and 10. Focusing on “technology empowering culture and culture energizing the city”, both online and offline methods are adopted to intensely showcase the achievements of high-quality development in the cultural industry empowered by new quality productive forces. In addition, the latest outcomes gained in the cross-industry integration of culture, technology, tourism, and finance are pooled together for project promotion by leveraging the industrial platform cluster effect of CIFTIS. When it comes to the exhibition form, such digital means as immersive experience space, glasses-free 3D, VR, AR, and holographic projection are employed to give a 3D presentation while fully demonstrating the integration of culture and technology. 

The second floor of Hall 1, Hall 11, and Hall 14 are home to the Special Exhibition on Supply Chain and Business Services which highlights green development, low-carbon, technology, humanity, and transcendence. The venues are divided into the Supply Chain and Communication Zone and Business Services Zone, with the former including four subzones, namely intelligent connection, autonomous driving, supply chain security, and transportation and logistics, and the latter consisting of five subzones, namely consulting services, HR, HQ enterprises, cross-border e-commerce, and security services. 

The Special Exhibition on Engineering Consultation and Architectural Services will be held in Hall 13 and bring together leading enterprises in the construction industry at home and abroad. Focusing on the requirements of the development of new quality productive forces and the synergetic development of intelligent construction (IC) technology and industrialization in the field of construction engineering, this special exhibition will fully display the progress made by the effective application of network, IT, and digital means in boosting innovative urban development, intelligent site construction and management, and intelligent commercial real estate for services. Visitors will grasp the big picture of the status quo and long-term trends of green architectural design with a focus on safety, health, livability, convenience, and energy conservation. Thanks to such activities as exhibit display, result publishing, trade deal signing, salon and side events, and promotion presentations, visitors to the exhibition will also experience the determination of Beijing’s building construction community in making great efforts to create a livable, resilient, and smart city, and meet the people’s aspirations for a better life in a pragmatic way. The venue will be divided into the Industry Zone and Enterprise Zone; the former consists of two subzones on new quality productive forces and AI, featuring the collective display of the latest development achievements in new quality productive forces made by domestic and international professionals; while the latter features the physical exhibition booths of over 20 major exhibitors, especially Huawei’s Smart Home Ecosystem·Human-Car-Home Outdoor Booth. Covering an area of about 5,000 m2, this special exhibition will give us a comprehensive overview of the new technologies, products, and achievements in construction services. 

In 2021, Shougang Park hosted CIFTIS events for the first time. Now, it has been designated as a permanent site for CIFTIS, which has become an iconic symbol of Shougang in the new era. Over the past three years, Shougang Park’s new model of modern conventions and exhibitions characterized by "industrial style, garden design, and cluster layout" has come as a refreshing surprise. Thanks to the radiation effect of the CIFTIS events, “convention and exhibition plus” has taken a significant leading role in propelling Shougang Park’s quick transformation into an international player and its multi-format integrated development. Over the past three years, Shougang Park has gradually completed its upgrading from a mere “gathering site” to an “industrial cluster”, and a “1+3+X” pattern for highly sophisticated sectors has taken initial shape. To date, 831 enterprises have settled in the park with total registered capital of over RMB 75 billion. Shougang Park always thinks in big-picture terms about guaranteeing its services for CIFTIS. Over the past three years, it has made continuous upgrades and improvements each year, thereby realizing better venues with improved functions and experiences. The past three years have witnessed over 800,000 accumulated inflowing visits to Shougang Park during CIFTIS, with the one-day record reaching 105,400, which shows how the CIFTIS events have brought tremendous vitality and consumption potential into the park. Shougang Park and CIFTIS make each other better. Shougang Park’s growth fully demonstrates the innovative development of CIFTIS featuring openness and shared prosperity, while the success of CIFTIS energizes the accelerated revitalization of Shougang Park through urban function recovery and renewal.

This autumn, let us get together in Shougang Park for CIFTIS 2024. Shougang Park is launching the brand new CIFTIS 4.0 featuring a compact layout, reasonable flowing route, and well-devised functions based on its high-quality services aligned with stricter standards and requirements. In CIFTIS 4.0, the integration of industrial style and natural landscape, as well the combination of indoor and outdoor communication spaces, will be fully considered while meeting the requirements of permanent CIFTIS site construction, function improvement, and sustainable development, with optimization and improvement realized in six aspects. In this way, we will witness historic, fashionable, vibrant, pioneering, innovative, and open-minded Shougang Park stride forward confidently towards the fast-changing future. The park is going all out to serve the globally-influential CIFTIS and jointly advance the development of an open and shared service economy. During CIFTIS 2024, all exhibitors and visitors will embrace the beautiful Shougang Park with its refreshed appearance, improved facilities, and comfortable vibe.