The 19th China ASEAN Expo and China ASEAN Business and Investment Summit ended in Nanning, Guangxi, on the 19th. Wei Zhaohui, Secretary General of the Secretariat of the China ASEAN Expo, said at the closing press conference that 267 international and domestic cooperation projects were signed at the Expo, with a total investment of more than 400 billion yuan, an increase of 37% over the previous one. Wei Zhaohui introduced that 88 online and offline economic and trade activities were held in this year's East China Expo, which facilitated more than 3500 pairs of trade matching and project matching, of which more than 1000 pairs were achieved through the "East China Expo on the Cloud". The projects are mainly concentrated in six major industries, including new metal materials, big health, culture, tourism and sports, green chemical new materials, and machinery and equipment manufacturing. The projects with more than 1 billion yuan are 2.6 times of the previous one, the projects with more than 5 billion yuan are 57% higher than the previous one, and the projects with more than 10 billion yuan have achieved zero breakthrough compared with the previous one. The total exhibition area of this Expo is 102000 square meters, and the total number of physical booths is 5400. There are 1653 enterprises from 40 countries participating in the Expo, an increase of 10% over the previous one. The daily average number of visitors to the Expo is 25600, an increase of 19.2% over last year. A total of 21 high-level forums were held under the framework. A number of cooperation mechanisms and institutions such as the China ASEAN Media Port, the China ASEAN Institute of Statistics, and the China ASEAN Technology Transfer Alliance have been launched or launched. Wei Zhaohui introduced that the 20th China ASEAN Expo and the China ASEAN Business and Investment Summit are initially scheduled to be held from September 16 to 19, 2023. Hangzhou will be the "Charming City" of China in the 20th East China Expo. (Liu Xinshe)