The first Hainan International Tropical Food Supply Chain Expo (referred to as "HIFCE") will be held in Haikou, Hainan from October 12th to 15th, 2023.

Hainan Free Trade Port is a new highland for China to deepen reform and opening up, and a convergence point of international and domestic dual circulation. In order to fully utilize the unique geographical advantages of Hainan Free Trade Port, Haishi Fair has held a concurrent event - the 2023 China International Food and Beverage Trade Development Conference, focusing on industry strength and exploring a new future for the development of food and beverage enterprises.

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Government departments support industry associations to host

With the support of the Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce, the Hainan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and the Hainan Provincial Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, this year's Seafood Expo is jointly hosted by the China Food Industry Association, the China Cuisine Association, the Hainan Food Production and Distribution Association, and the Seafood Expo Exhibition Group (Hainan) Co., Ltd.

At the conference, government leaders will be invited to interpret the development trend of dual circulation trade in free trade ports under the opportunities of the times. Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, university professors, China Food Industry Association, China Cuisine Association, China Aquatic Products Circulation and Processing Association, China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Native Produce and Animal Husbandry, China Prefabricated Vegetable Alliance, industry experts and food processing experts from food industry associations in provinces and cities such as Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, and Anhui will be gathered. The person in charge of the catering supply chain enterprise attended and shared through keynote speeches, round-table dialogues, and other means how the food ingredient industry can establish an empowerment system and channel development plan, providing a powerful raw material procurement information platform for the food ingredient industry, and enabling Hainan and even China's specialty food, hotel, and catering industries to go global.

Based on an international perspective and looking at the world pattern

HIFCE will gather representatives from over 20 countries and regions, and will invite representatives from the Malaysian Council for the Promotion of Trade, the Thai Food Manufacturers Association, the Guangzhou Office of the French Chamber of Commerce in China, the Consulate General of Cambodia in Haikou, the Consulate General of Japan in Guangzhou, the Consulate General of Pakistan in Guangzhou, the Consulate General of South Korea in Guangzhou, the Consulate General of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Guangzhou, the Consulate General of the Philippines in Guangzhou, and the Consulate General of Italy in Guangzhou, the Singapore Consulate General in Guangzhou, the French Consulate General in Guangzhou, the Malaysian Consulate General in Guangzhou, the Royal Thai Consulate General in Guangzhou and other international guests attended the meeting to help RCEP take full effect, promote close contact between Hainan Free Trade Port and countries along the "the Belt and Road", and open a new pattern of tropical food supply chain development.

Innovative development concept connects the food supply chain

HIFCE focuses on 5 major platforms and provides full industry chain services. Introducing intelligent technology, exploring new technologies, management, and models, deepening the quality transformation of digital and real integration, leveraging the strong penetration and wide coverage of digital platforms, promoting the global extension of the domestic catering industry chain, and opening up broader space for the development of China's catering economy.

HIFCE, as the world's first window for high-quality food trade and the first exhibition platform to focus on the supply chain of tropical ingredients, will deepen industrial integration and symbiosis. It is a leading window for the "going global" of tropical premium ingredients, marine ingredients, tropical efficient agriculture, and domestic high-end food industry.