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| Professor HAN Shengfei Making a Keynote Speech | | Professor CHEN Fei Making a Keynote Speech |
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| Group Photo | | Professor WU Yechun Accepting the Appointment as Vice Chairman of CSTC |
From December 15 to 17, the 6th China Service Trade Annual Conference was unveiled in Foshan. More than 1000 experts from United Nations, Chinese Academy of Social Science, universities, China Service and Trade Association and enterprises attended the conference. The theme of the conference was Innovation and Development of Service Trade.
Mr. HUANG Hai, the chairman of the China Service Trade Committee, emphasized that the global service demand had been cut and reduced recently and almost every country took the development of the service trade as the driving force in the post-industrial era. Mr. ZHAO Hai, the deputy mayor of Foshan, pointed out that Foshan was in a historical turning point to upgrade manufacturing industry, which would bring enormous opportunities to this city. He indicated that in the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan of the Foshan Service Trade Industry Development, the city would focus on the service of finance, technology, industrial design, culture and traditional Chinese medicine and push the acceleration of the service trade development.
SCUT Modern Service Institute was the sole co-organizer of the annual conference as University and institute representative and was reappointed as standing director of the committee. Professor WU Yechun, assistant to the president of SCUT and party secretary of SEC, was selected as the vice-chairman of CSTC and hosted the opening ceremony of the forum. In the annual conference, professor HAN Shengfei, CEHN Fei and LAI Weijuan from SEC were invited to make keynote speeches.
It is learned that CSTAC has been held for five sessions since 2011 and now is an important forum for academic research of service trade. (Translated and Edited by HUANG Xiaoting)
