The 2009 NPC and CPPCC annual sessions were held amid the global financial crisis and the Chinese govern-ment's full preparation for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Many people around the world are asking, what will be done to help China's foreign trade and exhibition industry weather the current storm and create new business opportunities? To get the answer to this question, we conducted a special inter-view with Mr. Wan Jifei, CPPCC member and CCPIT chairman.