China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo (ICCIE)
The ICCIE, initiated in 2006, is one of the largest cultural and creative industry's events in the country. Held in the later part of the year, it serves as a platform for cultural and creative industry related to information exchanges, product trading, and project cooperation. The expo showcases China's rich cultural resources, development environment, and market potential, with exhibitions of the latest innovative products, and fairs of traditional special products from every province of the nation.
Visitors look at models whose clothes were made out of environment-friendly materials at the first China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo yesterday. The event, a visual, creative and ideological feast integrating culture, creativity and modern technology for the cultural and creative industrial circles both at home and abroad, aims to provide a platform for domestic and foreign investors to boost the development of the nation's creative industry. (China Daily) |
China Beijing International High-Tech Expo
China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC), is a major technology expo held in Beijing sponsored by many national government agencies. The event promotes technology industry’s commercialization, market-oriented operations and internationalization. Over the past decade, CHITEC has grown into one of the highly specialized and international opportunities for China to showcase its state-of-the-art technologies, spread cutting-edge ideas, release industrial policies, and promote global economic and technical cooperation.
A robot dances at the 15th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC), May 23, 2012, Beijing. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Beijing International Marathon
The State General Administration of Sports and the People's Government of Belling Municipality approved the Beijing Internatioanl Marathon in 1981. The BIM is the highest-level marathon in the country. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has defined the BIM as one of the top marathons in the world, which allow participants to receive IAAF scores.
Participants in the Beijing International Marathon pass the Tiananmen Square on October 18, 2009. [Agencies] |