On June 3, the 2023 "Belt and Road" International Student Brand Planning Competition sponsored by CCPIT was successfully held. Alicia Yao, managing director of IME Consulting Co., Ltd. was invited to be a judge of this competition. Together with university students, she will always be young and happy! Youth is beautiful! More than 150 representatives of young unniversity students from 29 countries along the Belt and Road gathered in Beijing to learn from each other and explore brand marketing. Each person is the marketing chief of his or her own country, his or her own university, and his or her own brand. Each participant of China National University Elite Competition is the best presentation of his or her university, the promotion of the university brand. Everyone enjoyed the communication of teachers, the joy of success, and the sharing of happiness!                 The following experts are invited to the competition: Alicia Yao , Vice Chairman of China Business Event Industry Committee,  Ms. Lin Xue, Assistant, Member State Relations of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Ms. Song Juanjuan, Member and Government Affairs Manager of the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China, Mr. Song Wei, founder of the global mobile game alliance (GMGC), and Ms. Liang Fang, Director of the International Cooperation Department of Beijing International Olympic Academy.

Meet Hong Kong, Meet the world! IT is the new slogan for Hong Kong MICE destination promotion. Alicia Yao, General Manager of IME Consulting Co., Ltd, was appointed as the meeting ambassador of HKTB. She was invited as one of the representatives of the mainland trade associations for a site inspection to Hong Kong from October 25 to 29 to discover the MICE tourism resources, the new venues, and find new ideas.  Hong Kong is the best destination for the China trade associations to hold international conferences. The delegation visited the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the M+ Museum, tasted the food at the museum dining hall, took a traditional Chinese handmade wooden boat for sailing, toasted at the Taste School of Hong Kong Wine and Food Expo, enjoyed the collision of ancient and contemporary art, and the beauty of Victoria Harbor with wine and food. The most influential was the communication with the leaders of the Hong Kong association. Hong Kong deserves its reputation as a meeting destination, a platform for international cultural flow,               

ITB China: Professional exchange, international communication,predict the future, boost confidence From September 12 to 14, 2023, 2023 ITB China, a special industry forum and show was held in Shanghai Expo Convention and Exhibition Center. Well-known tourism organizations and experts in the Chinese market gathered at the show and discussed cutting-edge issues through keynote speeches and roundtable discussions. The forum lasts for three days during the ITB China Show.   IME Consulting Co., Ltd. became a partner of the exhibition's buyer invitation program and seminar training program. It leads the conference organizers of the Chinese Association to attend the exhibition to find the best destination for their conferences, and hold a training seminar on how to select the destination for the association meetings. Alicia Yao, the general manager of IME Consulting was the planner and host of the seminar.   This is the first offline exhibition held by ITB China after three years of the epidemic. The friends who met each other after a long absence, their experiences and warm words encouraged them to continue their efforts and contribute to the recovery and development of the industry.                        

IME Consulting Co., Ltd. organized a Chinese buyer’s group to participate in IT&CM Asia After a lapse of three years, IME Consulting Co., Ltd as the leader of the China meeting & incentive industry once again led the Chinese buyers group to participate in the IT&CM Asia Pacific Business travel show. On the first day, the buyers visited the QSNCC International Conference Center, which opened just one year after the reconstruction and will also be the venue for the ICCA2023 Congress this November. Thank QSNCC for providing us a special visit to the venue and dinner opportunity to communicate and discuss what we can do together. When we meet, magic happens!  IME Consulting Co., Ltd organized a team to actively support the IT&CM Asia exhibition and Forum, not only invited more than 20 Chinese industry buyers to participate in the exhibition, Alicia Yao, managing director of IME Consulting was invited as the industry top leader to participate in the "Association's Road to Success: An Innovation Roadmap to Excellence" seminar held at the IT&CM Asia Knowledge Sharing Center on September 28, 2023. As a sharing guest, she introduced the changes of China's association meeting industry in the last three years of the epidemic, the changes of association management and association meeting and event management, the direction of change which was affected to the new situation and new business environment. The pre-conference exchange and opening forum at IT&CM Asia gave us a glimpse of the trends and future of the business event industry. IT&CM Asia's Association Day addressed major issues in the industry: The changes to the Association's revenue or budget plans in the new environment? How to define the diversity of association income? What is the source of the association's income? How do association buyers select meeting destinations, and how do they meet the requirements of association buyers to attract meetings from the perspective of the Convention Bureau? How is association management changing in Europe? What are the three major changes for association meeting service providers to maintain a competitive edge? How to provide sustainable development for the associations? What are the latest trends and innovations in sustainable event management? Does the association have a different view on hiring a PCO, and is hiring a third party likely to reduce the income of the association's meetings? Should conference service providers be considered partners or suppliers? How does the Convention Bureau/Tourist Board add value to the association or international buyers at the different stages of choosing a destination? How can European venues, PCOs and convention bureaus deliver value to their international buyers? ... and so on.  IME Consulting Co., Ltd. has arranged value-added services for IT&CM Asia's Chinese buyers such as: visit the local convention center, visit the business event hotel, visit the special dinner venue, etc., so that Chinese buyers can learn more about the resources of Bangkok meeting & event resources and have more confidence in landing and holding various business events in Bangkok. Meet old friends, meet new friends meet new business opportunities.                   

The 62nd ICCA Congress made you feel at home. As an ICCA member, IME Consulting Co., Ltd has been unable to attend the ICCA Congresses for three years, and this was the first time to attend the ICCA Congress in person after the epidemic. It was an unforgettable experience.   A variety of social events were held during the ICCA Congress from November 12 to 15 to promote communication, exchange, catch-up, reconnect and rebuild. The ICCA social events featured on the ICCA Congress website is really exciting. China is the world's largest member community of ICCA. However, due to economic pressure, business environment, language skills, rising airfare and hotel prices, many members are unable to actively attend ICCA Congress. As a founding member of China ICCA Committee, IME Consulting Co., Ltd, in order to help the majority of ICCA members in China not to miss returning to the international industry, understand the business changes, seize international business opportunities, took the initiative to organize Chinese ICCA members to attend the congress in Bangkok, and actively contacted Marriott Group and airlines to help them book hotels and air tickets. Finally, 25 Chinese ICCA members and non-ICCA member but industry experts were organized to attend the ICCA Congress. After the congress, all the peers had a good response to say it was a very professional event with rich training content, which made them learn more international industry information, and made up the industry practice courses and catch up the industry future development information pulled down by the epidemic for three years, such as the sustainable event and net zero carbon event management.   The 2023ICCA Congress Bangkok attracted more than 1,000 professional representatives from association leaders, conference organizers, convention bureaus, tourism bureaus, convention centers, airlines, consulting companies, universities, business event research institutions, and conference hotels from around the world. Let us get together and join hands, let the business event promote social and economic development, let us create miracles together!            

The National College Students Elite Challenge Business Event Tourism Planning Competition was held in Sanmenxia City   The National College Students Elite Challenge Business Event Tourism Planning Competition was held in Sanmenxia City from November 20 to November 24, 2023. It was a designed products specially for Sanmenxia city business tourism development, Since then, Sanmenxia City, China's new business event tourist destination was born.  Alicia Yao, general manager of IME Consulting Co., LTD, has been supporting the competition for many years. From November 20 to November 24, 2023, she became a judge of the national Finals of the 2023 National University Business Elite Challenge Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Business Event Tourism Planning Track, and went to Sanmenxia City to attend the competition. Alicia Yao, actively contacted Sanmenxia Swan City Hotel Group for the competition landing to the city, and received the support of the city government and Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau and the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, and finally landed the competition in Sanmenxia city with its financial support.  More than 800 college and university students from all over the country came to Sanmenxia to investigate, carefully planned and designed the meeting & incentive programs. And actively promoted the signing of strategic cooperation between Sanmenxia City Bureau of Commerce and CCPIT-CSC.        

The 2023 China Congress of Association and Chamber of Commerce was held successfully On December 15, the 2023 China Congress of Association and Chamber of Commerce (CCACC) was held in Beijing with its theme of "Strong Convictions, Integrity and Innovation". The conference focused on hot topics such as think tanks, digitalization of associations management, innovation-driven, international cooperation, and sustainable development, with an insight into economic trends from a global perspective, and explored a new path for the development of associations and chamber of commerce. Mr. Zeng Yafei, President of China International Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Li Jiaying, Member of the Standing Committee of Fangchenggang Municipal Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Minister of United Front Work Department, Director of Fangchenggang Investment Center, Mr. Gu Xuebin, Chairman of IAEE Asia Pacific Region, Sarah-Markey-Hamm, President of the International Association of Professional Congress Organizers (IAPCO), and Waikin Wong, Asia Pacific Director of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), opened the conference. On October 10, 2018, the first CCACC was successfully held in Beijing. The congress was jointly sponsored by the Commercial Sub Council of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the Commercial Chamber of Commerce of the China Chamber of International Commerce and the China Economic Information Agency of the Xinhua News Agency, and "China Social Organizations" magazine, which is the only national professional journal in the field of social organizations in China. It was also supervised by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and sponsored by the China Social Organization Promotion Association, as a government supporting organization. It is co- organized by the China Business Event Industry Committee, CCOIC and IME Consulting Co., LTD. Within three years of the epidemic, the meeting organization insisted on holding CCACC online, and held live online and offline seminars for many times to build a platform for cross-border cooperation for the associations and chambers of Commerce.             The keynote speech session of the congress invited Chen Jun, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of China Asian Economic Development Association, Zhang Lin, Deputy Secretary General of China Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Association, Xu Fan, the first chairman and director of North Asia of China Chamber of Commerce of the World Young Presidents’ Organization, Liu Wei, Vice President and Secretary General of China Edible Fungi Association, Mr. He Xin, Deputy Director of Fangchenggang Investment Promotion Bureau, Mike Williams, the partner of GainingEdge, an authoritative research institution in the global meeting industry, respectively with the topics named "Business Association helps the high-quality development of the Belt and Road", "Providing comprehensive inspection and testing services for high-quality economic development", "Catch up, Reconnect, Rebuild", "digital management of the Association", "Sharing new advantages of border ports City”, "Building a new Highland for Industrial Cooperation" and "The Association Meeting development with the world's Most competitive Meeting destination" were delivered to provide guidance and suggestions for the associations to organize high- quality, sustainable and digital development.  In the Success Release process, the Commercial Sub Council of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade released the results of "Group standardization + International standardization", and launched the "1+3" Chinese enterprises overseas trade promotion peer plan and the " Association Digital Empowerment Action Plan".               For "Meeting Ambassadors of the Hong Kong International Conference" Session, Ms. Zhao Wenke, Secretary General of the World Federation of Chinese Catering Industry, Mr. Yao Xin, Secretary General of the Commercial Sub Council of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Mr. Wang Guangliang, Executive President of the Sleep Industry Branch of the National Health Industry Enterprise Management Association, and Ms. Gao Qi, Vice president of the CCACC, shared their opinions and suggestions on holding the conferences in Hong Kong. In 2023, the CCACC set up six parallel forums, focusing on "Associations helps build Fangchenggang International Medical Open Zone", "Building 'health and anti-aging' ecosystem", "AIGC and Association Management", "How Associations choose new channels for resolving commercial disputes", "Meeting the most beautiful Winter Olympic City" and "Escort China Business Association" Going out "were launched, and nearly 300 association executives and 30 conference organizers, management and operation personnel, experts and scholars in the fields of association management, association meetings, exhibition management and other fields were invited to attend and speak, sharing experience and suggestions from the perspective of their own industry associations and chambers of commerce.     The CCACC 2023 has attracted the attention of international and domestic association executives and managers, association meeting and event organizers, local government leaders, conference and convention bureaus and association conference and exhibition related industry professionals.                   The change of the world, the change of The Times, and the change of history are unfolding in an unprecedented way, and the evolution of the 100-year change is accelerating. In the face of the new situation full of uncertainty, the China Associations need to communicate with the world, dialogue with the industry, and exchange with enterprises if they want to "go out". The association is closely related to the high-quality development of the private economy and is an important organization for the united front work of the private economy. Whether the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the association can be effectively converged is the key to stimulate the vitality of the private economy. CCACC2023 actively responded to the work deployment of "rationalizing the management system of Party building work of industry associations, societies, and chambers of Commerce" focused in the 20th Party Congress Report, discussed the standardized construction of associations, shared the excellent experience of social organizations such as international and domestic chambers of commerce, societies, and associations in survival, operation, and innovation, and guided their member enterprises to participate in the construction of a modern socialist country. To re-create new driving forces for the development of China's social organizations, promote cross-border cooperation between domestic and foreign social organizations, integrate resources, stimulate vitality, and provide inexhaustible impetus for promoting national economic development and global economic recovery. CCACC2023 was hosted by the Commercial sub council of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Commercial Chamber of Commerce of the China Chamber of International Commerce, and hosted by the China Business Event Industry Committee and IME Consulting Co., LTD. The congress was supported by China Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Association, China Asian Economic Development Association, World Federation of Chinese Caterng Industry, China Medicinal Food Research Association, China Information Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Standardization Association, China Geriatric Health Care Association, China Food Industry Association Brand Strategy Committee, China Collectors Association International Art Exchange Committee, Finance and Credit Committee of China Cooperative Trade Enterprise Association, International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), International Association of Professional Congress Organizers (IAPCO), International Exhibition and Project Association (IAEE), GainingEdge, an authoritative research institution in the global conference industry, and other domestic and international associations. It is also sponsored by Fangchenggang Municipal Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong Tourism Board, Singapore Tourism Board, Beijing Yanqing District Culture and Tourism Bureau, Jiangtai Insurance Broker Co., LTD., Synutra International Group, Messe Berlin Shanghai| and ITB China, Shanghai eNewie Technology Co., LTD., Hertz Global Car rental, Plaza Premium Group, Shanghai Huishen Digital Science Network Co., LTD. (WeMeet) and other partner’s support. On the same day, nearly 300 delegates braved heavy snow, wind, cold weather from all over the country and Beijing to attend the offline meeting on time in Sheraton Beijing Lize Hotel and about 1,500 delegates watched the live broadcast online. Chinese associations are an important force in China's economic development, and its role in economic and social governance is more prominent. The new ideas and new strategies put forward in the report have pointed out the direction and course of action for the future development of the Chinese associations. In order to follow the road of organizational development of the associations with Chinese Characteristics in the new era, CCACC is in full action on accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, actively integrate into the overall situation of national development strategy, actively participate in the construction of a new development pattern, give play to the entrepreneurial spirit, help private enterprises move forward steadily, and comprehensively promote high-quality development.