During the recently held 9th China Meetings Industry Convention, Qingdao has been granted the honor of “the 2016 Chinese most innovative international conference and convention city”, which will help Qingdao step forward to build itself into a regional central conference and convention city in northeast Asian city.

    In recent years, Qingdao is vigorously leading innovative development of the conference and convention market. Just this year, Qingdao has successively introduced and held many high-end international conferences and first-class professional exhibitions including the G20 Civil Society (C20) Conference, East Asian Marine Cooperation Platform Huangdao Platform, China Security Technology Exchange Conference and Product Exhibition Conference, Aoshan Eurasian Science and Technology Forum, Qingdao China PPP Forum, World Airport Cities Conference, Global Big Data Application Research Forum, the 11th World Rabbit Science Conference, the 7th China Milk Industry Conference and 2016 Chinese Milk Industrial Exhibition, the 17th World Material Federation Asian Materials Conference, and the 5th World Materials Summit and China Garment Conference. These significant conferences and exhibitions have contributed a lot for Qingdao to attract and cluster international top-quality resources, promote related industrial development, increase the urban fame, and promote the construction of international city.