CIFTIS successfully presents green companies

BEIJING — The 2024 Beijing International Services Fair has not only provided a platform to showcase innovations in new high-quality production forces, but also enabled enterprises to embrace a green and low-carbon future in the Chinese market.

The expo, held from September 12 to 16, showcased progress in green and smart services. China’s “double carbon” goals have injected new energy into green transformation across sectors including construction, transportation, education, healthcare, sports and finance.

The environmental services exhibition hall at this year’s fair covered an area of ​​approximately 12,000 square meters, with multiple zones dedicated to green energy, carbon neutrality technologies and the circular economy. Many cutting-edge technologies from both domestic and international enterprises debuted, making CIFTIS a leading 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 presented 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 workplaces.

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

During the “Global Green Economy Development Forum” held as part of the fair, participants lavished praise on China for creating an important platform for global cooperation and exchange in new areas of the green economy.

Green competitiveness, characterized by low-carbon practices, is changing global supply chains and international trade rules. To drive high-quality and sustainable economic development, it is necessary to strengthen energy conservation 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, speaking at the event.

The show showcased a number of impressive achievements that highlighted new industries, business models and practices in the green, low-carbon sector. Groundbreaking technologies such as PET recycled materials and biomass heating were showcased by several green economy companies.

Making its debut at the expo, Optics Valley Bluefire from Wuhan, Hubei Province, drew attention with a model that demonstrates the conversion of biomass energy from agricultural and forestry waste such as rice husks, wood residues and straw into heat. The technology has already been implemented in various regions of China, putting it at the forefront of the country’s green agriculture sector.

“We hope that through CIFTIS we can reach thousands of households with our ‘blue fire,’” said Xiong Jian, the company’s president, who believes that China’s biomass heating sector has huge potential and that CIFTIS, with its focus on the green economy, offers companies an important platform to integrate into the global development landscape.

In recent years, China has vigorously promoted high-level opening-up, which has led to a steady increase in the scale of trade in services and an accelerated pace of opening-up in various service sectors. Earlier this month, China unveiled a set of guidelines to promote the high-quality development of services trade, pledging to fully construct a negative list management system for cross-border services trade and improve the level of service standardization.

In March, China announced a program to promote large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods replacements.

Liu Ling, president of Philips Greater China, said the company has launched an initiative to provide customized solutions for technology upgrades and equipment replacements in medical facilities in response to the plan. The initiative aims to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services and accelerate the development of new, high-quality production forces in the industry.

This year’s CIFTIS also saw the launch of several initiatives aimed at strengthening the stability and development of supply chains, which were met with great appreciation from participating companies.

At the stand of Wilo Group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of pumps and pump systems, visitors’ attention was drawn to a skid-mounted hydraulic module equipped with functions such as fire protection, air conditioning, cooling water monitoring and filtration.

The equipment was fully assembled and tested in Wilo’s factories. When delivered to the project site, it only required water and electricity connections to operate properly. It is widely used in the commercial, industrial, data center and heating sectors, reducing on-site installation times by 80 percent and reducing failure rates by 60 percent.

Xinhua