On Feb 7, the Sanya municipal bureau of commerce announced that the city held more than 3,000 convention and exhibition events in 2021, including 71 conferences with more than 1,000 attendees, an increase of 57.7 percent over 2020. This has laid a solid foundation for the development of Hainan province's convention and exhibition industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).
In 2021, 918 new convention and exhibition companies were registered, a year-on-year increase of 94.5 percent. As of the end of 2021, 2,206 companies engaged in the convention and exhibition industry in Sanya. Among them, eight companies' annual operating income exceeded 10 million yuan ($15.7 million).
Sanya actively supports the convention and exhibition industry to drive the development of other industries. For example, the Hainan Tropical Fruit Industry Expo and the Sanya International Mango Industry Conference have enhanced the competitiveness of Sanya's tropical fruits in the domestic market. The China Seed Congress and Nanfan Agricultural Silicon Valley Forum settled in Sanya in 2021, gathering seed industry experts and leading companies to assist the high-quality development of the seed industry.
The 2021 China Seed Congress and the Nanfan Agricultural Silicon Valley Forum are held in Sanya in Hainan province on March 20. [Photo/Sanya Daily]
In order to make its convention and exhibition industry become a new economic growth point, Sanya will promote the construction of convention and exhibition venues, support the development of leading enterprises in the industry, intensify the introduction and training of convention and exhibition talents, enhance the scale of the industry, as well as create a gathering area for the industry.
Huang Weili, secretary of the Party leadership group and director of the Sanya municipal bureau of commerce, said that Sanya will focus on planning and holding industrial conventions and exhibitions around industries like tropical fruits, Nanfan seed breeding, cruises and yachts, wedding tourism, as well as beauty consumption to boost related industry development this year.
