Changchun International Agriculture & Food Expo sets to open

The 10-day 19th China Changchun International Agriculture & Food Expo will open on Aug 14 at the Agri-Expo Garden in Changchun -- capital city of Northeast China's Jilin province -- according to local media reports.

According to expo officials,this year's expo will adopt both online and offline forms of display.

An online expo exhibition and trading service platform has been established, officials added, to promote the upgrade of the traditional exhibition as an intelligent and digital exhibition.

Relying on an intelligent online platform -- combining 5G, 3D animation and virtual reality technologies -- officials said the expo’s transactions and exhibition can now be undertaken equally well, both online and offline.

At the same time, the newly added online exhibition and trading service platform can provide more opportunities for exchanges and cooperation among exhibitors, service providers and purchasers in realtime, they said.

It can carry out cloud matchmaking, cloud negotiations and cloud signing activities, improve the trading function of the expo and enable the online exhibition trading services platform to become a "new normal" of the expo.

In cooperation with the online cloud expo, a series of exciting activities will also be carried out, officials said.

A special area will set up for livestreaming activities and farmers' network celebrities competition. At the same time, there will be short videos produced by expo authorities, to be released online.

Meanwhile, the offline expo site will also set up an experience area for the online cloud expo. Merchants, buyers, service providers and exhibitors can experience the function of the online trading platform in the form of a touch screen device.

In addition, this year's expo will strictly observe various novel coronavirus epidemic prevention measures.

In addition to the epidemic prevention area at the entrance, nine epidemic prevention and control service stations will set up in the exhibition areas and seven retest areas will set up at the seven ticket gates.

If a tourist's body temperature is abnormal, staff members at the retest areas will recheck it, to ensure the health of all personnel entering the exhibition area, officials said.