CIIE highly anticipated annual event for int'l companies: Panasonic vice president

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic is exhibiting at the ongoing China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai for eight consecutive years. Its global vice president, Tetsuro Honma, said CIIE has become an eagerly anticipated annual event for many international companies.

Traders and businessmen around the world have once again flocked to the CIIE to pursue opportunities created by China's vast and open market at the event’s eighth edition from November 5 to 10.

"For us, the most important role of the CIIE is that it allows us to showcase our products, components, equipment, and systems, introduce our corporate strategies and philosophies, and directly engage in face-to-face communication with media and business partners. We don’t need to visit each partner individually, and it offers us extremely high communication efficiency," said Homma of Panasonic Holdings Corporation.

China has already transformed from a manufacturing powerhouse into a major consumer, innovation, and engineering nation, as new technologies, including AI, thrive in China, said Homma.

"Panasonic does not merely view China as a 'market power' or a 'manufacturing power,' but rather positions contemporary China as an 'innovation power' and an 'engineering power,'" he said.

Homma expressed his hope that more international companies will gain a deeper understanding of China's economic innovation and development through the CIIE and personally experience the dynamic and vibrant nature of the Chinese market.

"You must experience it in person. It has the same meaning as the Chinese proverb 'seeing is believing.' I hope more entrepreneurs can come to China to personally experience its innovation and transformation," he said.

CIIE highly anticipated annual event for int'l companies: Panasonic vice president

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' separatist moves to stoke cross-Strait hostility are unpopular and doomed to fail, said Zhang Han, spokeswoman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing on Wednesday.

Zhang made the comments at a regular press conference in response to a media query about recent inappropriate remarks by Chiu Chui-cheng, head of the so-called "mainland affairs council", regarding the Chinese mainland's policy of advancing high-quality cross-Strait integrated development".

"Our fellow Taiwan compatriots are our kith and kin. Over the years, acting on the principle that 'people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are all of the same family', we have actively promoted cross-Strait economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation, deepened the integrated development across various fields, and made steady progress in implementing policies that provide equal treatment to Taiwan compatriots. These efforts have continuously yielded new results, fully demonstrating our goodwill in seeking benefits for Taiwan compatriots and our sincerity in advancing the peaceful and integrated development of cross-Strait relations. Such endeavors have been met with strong support and wide acclaim from our Taiwan compatriots. Driven by its separatist pursuit of 'Taiwan secession', the DPP authorities are deeply fearful of closer ties between people across the Strait. They have deliberately fanned the flames of confrontation and antagonism, while resorting to slander and obstruction against anything that helps develop cross-Strait relations and benefits people on both sides. Such moves are deeply unpopular and are bound to fail," she said.

DPP's moves to stoke cross-Strait hostility unpopular, doomed to fail: spokeswoman