An outstanding trade initiative which will be intensified during bauma China 2008: The Ministry of Commerce of the P.R. China, MofCom for short, and the German Federal Ministry of Economics, BMWI for short, will organize an Import Show on the German Construction Machinery and Technology.
 
This initiative is supported by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronics Products, CCCMB, and the German construction machinery association VDMA. Their common target is to improve the bilateral trade balance between China and Germany.

Therefore first class ministerial delegations who will support the events for bringing important Chinese purchasing agents and German exhibitors together are expected. During a symposium on November 25 ministerial delegations will meet high-ranking Chinese purchasing agents from the construction machinery industry. Besides there will be a Matchmaking- program where German exhibitors of bauma China will be introduced to Chinese decision makers. And a variety of guided tours through bauma China, a signing ceremony and a reception will offer additional opportunities to fortify the relationships between Chinese and German decision makers from the industry.

The choice of bauma China as platform for these ministerial meetings and events underlines once again the importance of the trade fair for the construction and building machinery industry in Asia.

Program:

Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China,
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
Sino – German Forum on Engineering Machinery Technology and Its Application
Tuesday, 25 November, Room E2-M19, 14:00 - 15:30 h

Matchmaking program
MofCom is working actively on contacting Chinese enterprises that show great interest in the German exhibitors and collecting the topic, time and exact German enterprises they want to talk with during the exhibition period. MofCom will send the information regularly to the German exhibitors in the pre-show period and make appointments and will also help to covey the demand from the German exhibitors if necessary.

Sino – German Reception
Tuesday, 25 November
Inter Continental Shanghai Pudong
Tomson Ballroom
(by invitation only)