The 11th China International E-Commerce Conference

Introduction

April 18-19, 2008

Beijing International Conference Center

Conference background:

Sponsored by the China E-Commerce Association, “China International E-Commerce Conference” has been successfully held for 10 times up till now and has aroused extensive attention from all social sectors. The Conference has been under the support and direction of the relevant state departments, and in the meantime has attracted active participation from various industries, academic research institutes and renowned companies. The past conferences had focused on the exchange and discussion on a wide range of topics including e-commerce creditworthiness, business standards, personnel training, success models, innovation in application, laws & regulations, investment and financing. By summing up the experience of the development of e-commerce in China, showcasing the latest technology and application in e-commerce, making success case studies, probing into the approach for promoting the e-commence development in China, making proposal for the future development of e-commerce and pushing the continual improvement of the e-commerce environment, the conference has aided the e-commerce development in China.

After being approved by the Ministry of Information Industry, “the 11th China International E-Commerce Conference” will be held at Beijing International Conference Center during April 18 – 19, 2008. The State Council Informationization Office, National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs and the State Post Bureau have all been invited to act as the directing departments for the Conference.

2008 is the Olympic year. Beijing Olympic Games will move Beijing faster in the construction of the tech Olympics and the “Digital Beijing”. It is expected that the new technologies will be widely used to get the digital network technology more widely and deeply involved in the entire course of the games, and the internet-based information technology will help people to have a closer tie with sports. In 2008, it is expected that any one at any time and any place can have safe, easy, fast and effective access to the affordable, language barrier free and individualized information service. In addition, Beijing will pioneer in a fully digitalized time in the country with the informationization application including e-commerce and digital community becoming more mature and the telecommunication networks, digital TV and direct broadcast satellite meeting the world’s advanced levels. People may use the network at home to search the Olympics related information and enjoy the vivid sport scenes, so the commitment on the construction in informationization and application of the e-commerce will be fulfilled.

As an important international event taking place before 2008 Olympics, this Conference will earnestly study and implement the essential points of the 17th Congress of CPC, combine the ecommerce development with the actual practice, carry out the concept of scientific development in accordance with the Electronic Signature Law of the People’s Republic of China  Opinions on the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the development of Electronic Commerce and the “11^th Five-year Plan for the Development of Electronic Commerce” to promote the concept of "technological Olympics and e-commerce”, grasp the opportunities brought by the Olympics and accelerate the development of e-commerce in our country. The theme of this Conference will centre upon “opportunity, innovation and harmonious development”, with the emphasis lied in the hot topics of technology Olympics, e-commerce and its development in the forms of theme speeches, special forums, e-commerce technology and the exhibition of new achievements. The Conference will invite government officials, experts and entrepreneurs to share their new ideas, models and experiences with us.

Conference theme:

Accelerating e-commerce development, promoting tech Olympics

Conference highlights:

—      Promote the concept of tech Olympics

—      Assembly E-commerce elites

—      Explore new E-commerce ideas

—      Encourage E-commerce innovations

—      Showcase new E-commerce technologies

—      Introduce new E-commerce achievements

Conference significance:

—        Improve the attending enterprises’ brand recognition, position, influence and promote their development, through advertisement and spread of conference 

—        Obtain large amount valuable information from attending representatives to help with the business expansion of the companies

—        Strengthen cooperation and exchange between enterprises and bring in potential source of customers

—        The association will play a bridging role to help enterprises with enormous business opportunities

—        Participate in creditability assessment of the participating enterprises and present their images to the public  

Sponsor:

China Electronic Commerce Association

Directing Departments:

—      Office of Informationization of the State Council

—      National Development and Reform Commission

—      Ministry of Information Industry

—      Ministry of Education

—      Ministry of Science and Technology

—      Ministry of Commerce

—      General Administration of Customs

—      State Post Bureau

Co-sponsors:

—        China Federation of Industrial Economics

—        China International Public Relations Association

—        China Association of Mayors

—        The Joint Conference of Directors of Ministries and Commissions Information Center of the State Council

—        China Old Revolutionary Area Construction Promotion Society 

Organizer:

China International E-Commerce Conference Organizing Committee

Internet Media:

Xinhua Net, the People Net, China Net, Ynet, Sina, Sohu, NetEase, TOM, Yesky, Tencent, HC360, and Ccidnet

Print media:

People’s Daily, Economic Daily, Guangming Daily, Legal Daily, China Information World, People’s Posts, China Electronics News, China Trade News, China Economic Times, Economic Information Daily, China Business Post, Financial Times, Beijing Youth Daily, Southern Weekly, The Beijing News, Beijing Times, Beijing Business Today, Modern Logistics, China Internet Weekly, China Electronic Commerce, Digital Business Time, CEOCIO China, Computer World, China Computer Users, Communications World, Modern Communications, China Informationization, Science and Technology Daily, China Economic Herald.

Exclusive partner website:

SOHU.com

Guests to be invited:

—        Government officials and officials of the relevant organizations, industries and associations

—        Senior officials of the nationally and internationally well-known companies

—        Senior officials of the companies from IT, telecommunications, postal business and logistics

—        Senior officials of the companies from credit services, finance, insurance, online banking, online payment and information safety

—        Leaders in the business of digital Olympics, digital community and digital creativity

—        Officials of the companies in the traditional industries and the application of e-commerce

—        E-commerce experts from universities and research institutes

—        Venture capital investors

—      Media representatives

Conference activities

1. Opening ceremony and the main forum:

The conference will invite officials from Chinese government and Beijing Olympic Organization Committee, representatives of the international e-commerce organizations, the national and international famous business elites to share their ideas in business development, strategy, share concepts, success models, experiences, development trends and so on.

2. Exhibitions:

—  Electronic business (Online business, online settlement, electronic logistics and electronic ticketing and so on);

—  E-Governance (government websites, city informationization, digital construction and management)

—  Electronic finance (online banking, securities and insurance);

—  Online information service (information inquiry, integration and publication)

—  Electronic recreation, online multimedia;

—  Online education (education websites, internet schools, long-distance education);

—  Tourism e-commerce (internet travel agencies);

—  Infrastructure for e-commerce and informationization.

3. Special forum:

The special forums will be set up for discussions centering upon key issues of the core system and the supporting environment for the e-commerce development such as the construction of the credibility system, technology Olympics and e-commerce, finance and payment, policy and regulations, people training, industrial application, regional application, mid-and-small enterprises, logistics, innovative models and financing.

4. Awards for the outstanding e-commerce companies, websites and business elites.

The organization committee will present prizes to the outstanding e-commerce enterprises, excellent websites and the business elites based on their application, public survey and professional assessment.

5. Call for papers

The Conference will invite e-commerce related papers. Appraisals will be given by experts and the distinct papers will be collected in the Conference Papers and presented on our official website.

6. The conference official website

Our official website: http://ciecc.ec.org.cn will contain information of the organization, the main activities, news and participants of the conference.

7. Conference publicity

The all dimensional reports will be given by the Organizing Committee in joint with the mainstream media. As our exclusive partner, SOHU.net will present its live broadcast in texts, graphics and video on the entire course of the conference.

Contact:

E-Commerce Association of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Internet Trading Association

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