China-ASEAN Expo opens in Nanning

The four-day China-ASEAN Expo opened Wednesday in Nanning, capital city of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, attracting more than 1,500 companies from China, ASEAN member nations and other countries, including 19 companies of from world's top 500.

Wu Yi (R2) enters the international exhibition center in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, November 3.

More than 200 categories of products from 11 industries were presented at the exposition, including machinery, household electric appliances, electronic and IT products, automobile and spare parts, hardware and construction materials, pharmaceutical and chemical products, and textile and light industrial products.

About 30 percent of the 2,506 exhibition stalls are set up by companies from outside China. On the sidelines of the exposition, Chinese and ASEAN businessmen, scholars and officials will also attend the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit.

ASEAN countries are close neighbors to China. In recent years, the two sides have achieved smooth development of political ties and made big progress in bilateral trade, two-way investment, project contracting and labor service.

From January to September this year, bilateral trade between China and the ASEAN reached 75.45 billion US dollars, up 35.6 percent year on year. The figure is expected to top 100 billion US dollars for the whole year.