A top official of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced in Hong Kong on Monday that Guangxi's Nanning City is to host the third China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Expo in October.

Cao Bochun, secretary of the Communist Party of China Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee, said at a press conference that during the expo, the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit and a summit meeting for marking the 15th anniversary of the establishing of the dialogue partnership between China and ASEAN members.

He said, Chinese leaders and leaders of the 10 ASEAN members will participate in the expo.

Cao said the expo will focus on commodity trade, investment and cooperation, advanced agro-technology.

He said, Nanning City is to allocate huge sum of funds to improve services of exhibition centers, hotels, ports, communications and telecommunications, in a bid to provide better service.

He said, by April 18, 2,698 in-door booths and 6,000 square meters of out-door booths have been pre-registered and the number of booths pre-registered by the ASEAN members rose from one fourth in last expo to one thirds in the coming expo.

Statistics show that the total trade volume during the previous two China-ASEAN trade fairs reached 2.24 billion U.S. dollars, with the signing of over 620 investment and cooperation contracts which involved 22 billion U.S. dollars of investment.

Source: Xinhua