On June 5, the second West China International Transportation Expo 2024 (hereinafter referred to as "West Fair"), which lasted for 3 days, was grandly opened at Chongqing International Expo Center (Yuelai).

The expo is sponsored by the China Transport Association, Chongqing Transport Commission, Sichuan Provincial Transport Department as the guiding unit, Chongqing Lingwu Exhibition Co., Ltd. and Chongqing Transport Association specifically undertake. More than 100 enterprises including China Communications Corporation, China 19 MCC, China Railway Construction Corporation, China Construction Corporation, Eastern Airlines, Western Airlines, COMAC, Hubei Road and Bridge Corporation, Sichuan Transportation Corporation, Jiangxi Investment Corporation, Chongqing Local Minsheng Industrial Corporation, Chongqing Communications Corporation, Chongqing High-speed Corporation and Chongqing Unicom participated in the exhibition, focusing on transportation construction and industrial development under the background of Western development. Show negotiations, exchanges and cooperation.

Before the opening ceremony, Li Gang, Vice President and Secretary General of China Transport Association, Zhong Hua, Vice president of China Transport Association, Hao Yi, Deputy Director of Chongqing Municipal Transport Commission, Ning Jian, deputy Director of Sichuan Provincial Transport Department, and guests from all over the country visited the exhibition hall. The special exhibition areas let the leaders and guests stop from time to time, and gave high praise to the West China Expo. In particular, the "Western Transportation Development Comprehensive Exhibition Area" focused on the transportation construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin City Economic Circle and the outstanding achievements in the transportation development of Xinjiang, Guizhou, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and other western provinces and regions in recent years, and some ultra-high level transportation construction projects with world difficulty are more impressive to the guests.

At the opening ceremony, Li Gang, Vice President and Secretary General of China Transportation Association, Hao Yi, Deputy Director of Chongqing Municipal Transportation Commission, and Ning Jian, deputy Director of Sichuan Provincial Transportation Department, addressed the conference successively. Afterwards, Li Gang, Vice President and Secretary General of China Transport Association, Zhong Hua, Vice president of China Transport Association, Liu Yiming, member of Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China Railway Construction Kunlun Investment Group Co., LTD., and Zhao Xiaodong, Standing Committee Member and Vice President of China Railway Communication and Signal Co., LTD., attended the expo. Xie Yang, member of the Party Committee and deputy General manager of China 19 MCC Group Co., LTD., and Liu Jiangtao, chairman of Beijing Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., LTD., jointly announced the opening of the conference.

Li Gang, Vice president and Secretary-General of the China Transport Association, mentioned in his opening speech that transport is a basic, leading and strategic industry in the national economy, an important service industry and an important part of the modern economic system, and an important support for building a new development pattern and a solid guarantee for serving the people's better life and promoting common prosperity. Chongqing is the economic, financial, scientific and technological innovation, shipping and business logistics center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the only national logistics hub with four types in the country, and the international consumption center city. As an important strategic fulcrum of the western development, an important joint point of the "Belt and Road" and the Yangtze River Economic Belt and an open inland highland, Chongqing is an important strategic fulcrum of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the western development.

After the opening ceremony, the second Western China Transport Power Summit Forum was held. Professor Li Keping, Director of the Sino-German Transportation Research Center at Tongji University, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Transportation Technology Innovation and Sino-German Cooperation". Zheng Jiaming, Party secretary and chairman of China 19 MCC (Chongqing) Construction Engineering Co., LTD., made a keynote speech on "Fulfilling the original mission of demonstrating state-owned enterprises to play a role in writing a New Chapter in the construction of a transportation power"; Zhai Yubo, general manager of Carbon Neutral Division of NENG Chain Group, gave a keynote speech entitled "Transportation and Energy Digital, Green Transformation Path"; Zheng Zhiming, Party Committee member and deputy general manager of Chongqing Urban Transportation Development and Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. made a "Chongqing Exploration of the healthy and Sustainable Development of Integrated, digitized and industrialized urban public transportation", and finally Wang Zhi, Party committee member and deputy general manager of Chongqing Expressway Group Co., Ltd. gave a wonderful speech for the summit forum.

Focusing on how to promote the comprehensive construction of transportation in the western development and the development of new quality productivity in the western transportation, the organizing committee of this Expo has made full efforts in the heating up of the topic and the sharing of the industry's top flow.

On the afternoon of June 5, the organizing committee set up the "Five provinces (municipalities) in the Upper reaches of the Yangtze River Shipping High-quality Development Forum" focusing on inland shipping, inviting investment operators such as Guizhou Port and Shipping, Sichuan Port Investment, Yunnan Aviation Administration, Shaanxi Waterway transportation Development Center and other managers to have a dialogue with Chongqing, and full of dry goods for grounding gas and water transportation will be presented in front of the audience. At the same time in the afternoon, focusing on the most mainstream transportation and people's livelihood topic of "Green transportation and low-carbon travel", the organizing committee also held the "Green and low-carbon Transportation Innovation Development Forum in Western China" together with Chongqing Low-carbon Association. Zheng Xipeng, deputy general manager of Beijing Zhongchuang Carbon Investment Technology Co., LTD., Zhang Hui, deputy director of the Management Committee of Beijing Yingke (Chongqing) Law Firm, Tang Huitang, chief analyst of carbon neutrality and power of CITIC Construction Investment Futures, were invited to do in-depth analysis and sharing on hot topics such as "ESG and Green Development of transportation" and "EU Road transport Emission reduction and emissions Trading System".

On the morning of June 6, the second Western Intelligent Transportation and Intelligent Network Technology Development Forum will be held. Professor Liang Hongbin of Southwest Jiaotong University, Xie Fei, chief expert of Intelligent Network Vehicle Innovation Center of West Science City, Yang Yanmei, Director of Environment Department of Chongqing Jiaotong University and other prominent guests will attend and make wonderful speeches. This time, the guests will face the public and cut to the core on key topics such as 5G vehicle networking key technologies and development trends of intelligent transportation, presenting us with a fuller intelligent transportation panorama at present.

In particular, on the morning of June 6, we invited future transportation research and development personnel with different resumes from different fields across the country and even around the world to provide a rare brainstorming session for our city's youth and researchers on the future prospects of human transportation, which is our "Future Transportation New Quality Development Forum".

It is worth mentioning that in order to cultivate children's thinking and imagination of sky exploration and establish a broader world view and cosmology view, the organizer specially broadcast the forum live, and invited Chongqing university teachers and students to participate in our discussion on future transportation through live broadcast or on-site. At that time, Cao Lin, a senior expert of Ali Cloud computing and the founder of the aerospace public science popularization to the Sky, the first person in China to participate in the EAA fly-in conference, and Yan Lixing, a space travel consultant authorized by Virgin Galactic, and other guests will be present at the scene to exchange results and share effective cases with friends who care about and look forward to future transportation research.

When it comes to the new quality and productivity of the transportation industry, the expo specially organized some invited leaders and industry representatives to visit Bosch Hydrogen Energy System (Chongqing) Company and the West Intelligent Connected Vehicle Innovation Center (West Zhailian) to fully understand the whole process of hydrogen fuel power research and development and application and the latest technology of intelligent connected vehicles. This is also one of the most actively signed up by the provincial and municipal transportation authorities, I believe that the half-day inspection will let the national guests in Chongqing collision full hydrogen thought spark!