China International Senior Services Expo

China International Senior Services Expo – Aug 4-6,2017 – China

In the starting year of the national “13^th Five-year Plan”,our country comprehensively boosts the development of the senior serviceindustry, which has become the key topic attracting the attention of thegovernment and the society. With the rhythm of the times, On May 3, 2016, theopening ceremony of 5^th China International Senior Service Expo washeld in the China National Convention Center in Beijing.

Onthe morning of May 3, 2016, the opening ceremony of 5^th ChinaInternational Senior Service Expo and 5^th China Senior ServiceDevelopment Forum was held in the China National Convention Center, sponsoredby Ministry of Civil Affairs and National Elderly Work Committee Office,organized by China Association of Social Welfare and Senior Service, BeijingBureau of Civil Affairs and Beijing Elderly Work Committee Office, andco-organized by the China Social Welfare Foundation. Wang Jianjun, ExecutiveDeputy Director of National Elderly Work Committee Office, hosted the openingceremony. Zhang Meiying, Deputy President of 11^th CPPCC, GaoXiaobing, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Wang Ning, DeputyMayor of Beijing, and Gregory Ross Shaw, Minister of the InternationalRelations Ministry in The International Federation of Ageing, attended theopening ceremony and addressed speeches. Zhang Meiying, Deputy President of 11^thCPPCC, announced the opening ceremony of the Expo.

Thisexpo continues to take “Gratitude, Care, Service and Development” asthe mission. The domestic and international social organizations and theservice enterprises enthusiastically have participated in the expo. There are242 organizations from 18 countries and regions in the expo; and the audiencequantity reaches around 50,000; over 120 domestic and foreign experts andscholars have the deep exchanges concerning the research achievements and thepractical experience on “5^th China Senior Service DevelopmentForum” and 12 sub-forums; 52 news media, including Xinhua News Agency,CCTV, People’s Daily, CNR, CRI, BTV, Beijing Daily and Beijing Evening News andso on, have given the report about this expo.

ChinaInternational Senior Service Expo, established in 2012, has been successfullyheld for five times. For five years, 373 organizations from 29 countries andregions in total have attended the expo; in our country, 1,275 organizationshave attended the expo in total with the audience of around 250,000. The expohas won the recognition and the widespread reputation both at home and abroad.It has become the brand expo in the domestic senior service field.