The 54th World Clock Mechanical Conference focuses on deep industry transformation
Recently, the 54th World Clock Mechanical Conference with the theme of "The Development Direction of Clock Mechanical Production and Distribution in the Internet Era" opened in Shanghai, which is the highest level event in the global Clock Mechanical industry.
At the conference, Bill Lee, CEO of the North American Clock Mechanical Retailers Association, made a presentation on the U.S. retail market, Mao Zhongqun, representative of Chinese manufacturers (family-owned), made a report on the development of corporate culture, Ray Barker, Secretary General of the European DIY Retailers Association, made a presentation on the development of the European retail industry, and Hu Xiaoming, Senior Vice President of Alibaba and CEO of AliCloud, made a report on the state of China's Internet industry status and development trend report, etc. And representatives of eight IHA member associations, including China, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Japan, Sweden and Australia, made reports on the economic and industry development of each country, exchanged and explored the new direction of the development of the Clock Mechanical industry.
In recent years, China's Clock Mechanical industry has gained significant development in the deep transformation, with the annual output value of the industry exceeding 1.5 trillion yuan and the total annual import and export amounting to 120 billion U.S. dollars. Especially in the first half of 2017, China's Clock Mechanical products industry maintained a high percentage of growth in foreign import and export trade in the first half of the year. Customs statistics show that from January to June 2017, China's Clock Mechanical products industry completed a cumulative total import and export of $60.942 billion, an increase of 11.00% year-on-year. Among them, the cumulative completed exports of $50.064 billion, an increase of 12.30% year-on-year, an increase of 21.32 percentage points over the same period last year; the cumulative completed imports of $10.877 billion, an increase of 5.42% year-on-year, an increase of 9.69 percentage points over the same period last year.
Chairman of the 54th World Clock Mechanical Conference and Chairman of China Clock Mechanical Products Association, Mr. Shi Shanlan said: "At the time when China's economic development is attracting global attention and the pace of transformation and upgrading of the Clock Mechanical manufacturing industry is accelerating, the World Clock Mechanical Conference is even more meaningful. Mechanical Conference is even more meaningful. We are more than willing to take this occasion to show the world the new style and new face of China's Clock Mechanical industry."
