On November 10th, 2022, the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE) concluded in Shanghai.

The success of this year’s CIIE was reflected by the total of 73.52 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of tentative deals reached for one-year purchases of goods and services, an increase of 3.9% on last year. A total of 145 countries, regions and international organizations came to participate in the Expo, and more than 2,800 enterprises from 127 countries and regions took part in the business exhibitions, showcasing 438 representative new products, technologies and services. Twenty-four sessions of the Hongqiao International Economic Forum also took place. By 12 o’clock on the final day, a total of 461,000 visits had been registered. Thanks to the joint efforts of all parties, the 5th CIIE met expectations in a successful, splendid and productive manner.

Seeking "mutual appreciation and inspiration", this Expo not only blends technology and innovation to create an immersive experience for visitors, but also provides a platform for international exchanges through varied cultural enrichment activities.

The CIIE will remain a win-win, open and prosperous event with a strong emphasis on global development.

The CIIE benefits from the contributions of Grouphorse. In 2018, due to its professional strength and meticulous service process, Grouphorse received the opportunity to be the official language service provider for the 1st China International Import Expo. As an official United Nations vendor for language services (ID: 496547), a participant of the United Nations Global Compact (ID: 109301), and the official language service provider for APEC summits and the Boao Forum for Asia, Grouphorse Group has an experienced professional team, a strict quality-control process, and rapid response times. It also boasts significant advantages in areas such as brand reputation and customer experience.

Grouphorse offers one-stop tailored multilingual solutions for all forms of meetings and events at the CIIE. It provides a comprehensive range of solutions, from translation (translation of international correspondence, CIIE official websites and various commercial documents) to interpretation (liaison/consecutive/simultaneous interpretation for meetings between international organizations, high-end forum sessions and negotiations with exhibitors from different countries), covering a total of 19 languages including English, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Grouphorse also provides the CIIE with language services in the forms of booth interpreters and multilingual volunteers, facilitating barrier-free communication in the global economy.

▲ CIIE sends official thank-you letter to Grouphorse ▲

This year, Grouphorse once again committed to promoting international cooperation and relevant activities with its expertise, helping to remove barriers to post-pandemic recovery and facilitate world connectivity, and continuing to reshape and redefine the global language services industry.

At this year’s CIIE, Grouphorse provided language services such as Chinese-English simultaneous interpretation, Chinese-English consecutive interpretation, Chinese-Japanese simultaneous interpretation, Chinese-Japanese whispering interpretation, and simultaneous interpretation equipment for conferences on the promotion of provincial investment, and Chinese-English simultaneous interpretation for intelligent technology forums. In doing this, Grouphorse fully utilized its advanced technological achievements such as an online conference digital platform, a neural network machine translation engine, speech and image recognition systems, a cloud-based corpus and terminology database, an intelligent information retrieval platform, a subtitling platform, and a multilingual conference recording platform. In addition, Grouphorse dispatched nearly 300 people to perform booth interpretation and other services at the Expo, solving customers' problems with high quality and efficiency.

▲ Grouphorse at the CIIE ▲

Grouphorse remains devoted to perfecting services by preparing sufficiently, coordinating planning, implementing scientific management, responding quickly throughout the whole process, and responding calmly to emergencies. With a large pool of qualified, experienced translators and interpreters, attentive service, and superior professionalism, Grouphorse shone brightly in all major venues at the CIIE, completing interpretation and translation tasks at all major events and conferences with its tailored, outstanding, and high-quality services.