CIFTIS successfully showcases green firms

BEIJING — The 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing served not only as a platform to showcase innovation in new quality productive forces, but also empowers enterprises to embrace a green and low-carbon future in the Chinese market.

Held from Sept 12 to 16, the fair showcased advancements in green and intelligent services. China's "dual carbon" goals have infused new energy into the green transition across various sectors, including construction, transportation, education, healthcare, sports and finance, among others.

The environmental services exhibition hall at this year's fair covered approximately 12,000 square meters, featuring multiple zones dedicated to green energy, carbon neutrality technologies and the circular economy. Multiple cutting-edge technologies from both domestic and international enterprises made their debuts, positioning CIFTIS as the premier stage for global green innovation.

IQAir, a Swiss company providing air purification and air quality monitoring services, participated in CIFTIS for the first time this year. It introduced its latest IQAir Web Dashboard, which integrates big data monitoring, air pollution control and data visualization with hardware systems to help control indoor air pollution and improve air quality in workspaces.

China has introduced numerous measures to ease market access, particularly in the field of green development, which will benefit countries worldwide. International companies are eager to integrate into China's framework for high-quality development, said Frank Christian Hammes, global CEO of IQAir.

At the "Global Green Economy Development Forum" held during the fair, participants heaped praise on China for creating a major platform for global collaboration and exchange in the emerging areas of green economy.

Green competitiveness, characterized by low-carbon practices, is reshaping global supply chains and international trade rules. To drive high-quality and sustainable economic development, it is essential to strengthen energy-saving and emission reduction management, build a carbon footprint reduction system and promote the green, low-carbon transformation of industrial and energy structures, said Sha Zukang, honorary president of the International Green Economy Association, when addressing the event.

At the fair, many impressive achievements highlighting new industries, business models and practices in the green, low-carbon sector, were on display. Breakthrough technologies, such as recycled PET materials and biomass heating, were presented by several green economy companies.

Making its debut at the fair, Optics Valley Bluefire from Wuhan, Hubei province, attracted visitors' attention with a model demonstrating the conversion of biomass energy from agricultural and forestry waste, such as rice husks, wood scraps and crop straw, into thermal energy. This technology has already been implemented in various regions across China, placing it at the forefront of the domestic green-agri sector.

"We hope to bring our 'blue fire' to thousands of households through CIFTIS," said Xiong Jian, chairman of the company, who believes that China's biomass heating sector holds vast potential, and CIFTIS, with its focus on green economy, offers a major platform for companies to integrate into the global development landscape.

In recent years, China has vigorously promoted high-level opening up, leading to steady growth in the scale of services trade, and an accelerated pace of opening-up in various services sectors. Earlier this month, China unveiled a set of guidelines to promote high-quality development of trade in services, committed to fully constructing the management system of the negative list for cross-border trade in services and improving the standardization level of services.

In March, China unveiled a program to promote large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods trade-ins.

Liu Ling, president of Philips Greater China, stated that in response to this plan, the company showcased its initiative designed to offer tailored solutions for technology upgrades and equipment renewals in medical institutions, aiming to enhance the quality and efficiency of healthcare services and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces in the industry.

This year's CIFTIS also saw the launch of several initiatives aimed at bolstering the stability and growth of supply chains, earning high praise from participating businesses.

At the booth of Wilo Group, one of the world's leading providers of pumps and pumping systems, a skid-mounted hydraulic module featuring functions such as fire protection, air conditioning, monitoring and cooling water filtration caught the attention of visitors.

The equipment was fully assembled and tested at Wilo's factories. Once delivered to the project site, it only required water and electricity connections to function properly. It is widely applicable in commercial, industrial, data centers and heating sectors, reducing on-site installation time by 80 percent and lowering failure rates by 60 percent.

Xinhua