Preparations for the 15th China - Northeast Asia Expo Wrapped Up.

Report from our correspondent on August 19th (Reporter Tao Lianfei, Intern Ma Juan). The 15th China - Northeast Asia Expo is approaching. Today, Liu Lifang, the deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Commerce, was interviewed by reporters and mainly introduced the preparations for this expo and the achievements of previous editions.

Liu Lifang told reporters that the 15th China - Northeast Asia Expo will be held from August 27th to 31st, 2025, in Changchun, Jilin Province. Currently, preparations for the expo are in the final stage. Fourteen provincial - level administrative regions are expected to send deputy - provincial - level leaders to participate. Twenty - four foreign politicians, heads of international organizations, and ambassadors to China have confirmed their attendance. 345 important guests and more than 14,000 businesspeople from 45 countries and regions, as well as 27 provincial - level administrative regions in China, have confirmed their participation. The invitation work is still ongoing.

It is reported that this expo has the theme of "Joining Hands in Northeast Asia, Opening Up for a Brighter Future". There are four exhibition halls in total: the Modern Industry Hall, the Opening - up and Cooperation Hall, the New Consumption and New Services Hall, and the International and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Specialties Hall. There is also a ginseng and sika deer exhibition area and a Jilin cuisine cultural experience area named "Food Fashion at the Expo, Tasting Jilin". The total exhibition area is 73,000 square meters.

"During this expo, there will be many important events, including the opening ceremony, the 4th Northeast Asia Local Cooperation Round - Table Meeting, and the 7th Northeast Asia Industrial Park Dialogue," Liu Lifang also told reporters. A series of supporting activities such as economic and trade matchmaking, investment promotion, talent recruitment, cultural exchanges, and sports events will be widely carried out. Meanwhile, the online integrated platform of the Northeast Asia Expo will provide online services for the expo.

The China - Northeast Asia Expo is a national - level exhibition approved by the State Council. It is jointly hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and the People's Government of Jilin Province, and co - organized by nine important business associations from the other five countries in the Northeast Asian region and the Secretariat of the Trilateral Cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea. It is an international comprehensive expo jointly participated in by six countries in the Northeast Asian region and open to the world.

Information provided by the Jilin Provincial Department of Commerce shows that since the first expo in 2005, the Northeast Asia Expo has been successfully held 14 times. 780,000 professional businesspeople from more than 180 countries and regions have participated. 1,800 Fortune Global 500 companies and large multinational corporations have participated in exhibitions and events. The cumulative turnover of commodity trade is nearly 10 billion yuan. A total of 3,032 cooperation projects have been signed, with a total investment of 2.053875 trillion yuan. A number of major projects in various fields such as infrastructure, modern service industries, new energy, new materials, green food and agricultural product processing, automobile and auto - parts processing, cultural tourism, and biomedicine have been launched in Jilin.