Automechanika Shanghai 2014 Hit a Record Hiqh of Scale

Automechanika Shanghai，the largest expo in Asia forauto parts， maintenance， de-tection diagnostic equip-ment and service supplies and co-organized by Trade Development andCooperation Center of the CCPIT，was held in Shanghai New Interna-tional Expo Center during December9-12， 2014. The Expo attracted a his-torical high of exhibitors.

The Expo attracted 4，906 enter-prises from 39 countries and regions，up 6% year-on-year. Among the ex-hibitors， five countries-Belarus， Peru，Portugal， Switzerland and Jordan madetheir first debut at the Expo and theother 34 countries participated in theExpo for the second time. Statisticsshows that at the Expo the number ofoverseas exhibitors reached 581， up 11%year-on-year; and that of domestic ex-hibitors 4，325， up 5% year-on-year.

17 0ut of the 39 exhibition coun-tries and regions participated in theExpo via international delegations，among which Argentina and Pakistanexhibition delegations made their firstdebut. Poland， Germany， France， Ko-rea， Malaysia， the USA， Japan， Thai_land， Turkey， Spain， Singapore， Italy，India， the UK and Taiwan of Chinaonce again attended the Expo to dis-play the latest products and technicalinnovations oftheir local auto sectors.

Automechanika Shanghai reached the largest scale in2014

In 2014， 17 indoor standard exhi-bition halls and 10 0utdoor temporaryexhibition halls of Shanghai NewInternational Expo Center were usedfor Automechanika Shanghai. Thetotal exhibition area saw a 5% growtht0 220，000 sq m， reaching a historicalhigh in the Expo history.

Statistics shows that comparingwith 2013， the scale of all the threemajor product modules registered agrowth to fully cover the entire in-dustrial chain.

The newlylaunched \"auto applianc-es brand hall\" at 2014's Expo showcasedmany top brands in the appliance do-main and brought a growth of 10.4% tothe appliance and modification module，which topped the three product mod-ules; the success of the expo in the pastyears attracted lots of returned exhibitorswith larger scales， driving the growthof the maintenance and repair moduleto some extend and reaping a growth of7.3%， only next to that of the applianceand modification module; the auto partsmodule focused more on brand， productservices and balanced development torealize stable growth.

Talking about the historical highof exhibitor number and exhibitionarea， Cao Jiansheng， senior generalmanager of Messe Frankfurt (HongKong) Co.， Ltd.， said: \"I'm so glad tosee Automechanika Shanghai is ex-panding year by year. In 2014， both theexhibitor number and exhibition areahit a record high. Statistics directly sig-nals that Automechanika Shanghai hasgrown into an increasingly importantservice platform in the Chinese andeven the global auto sector.\"

The Expo hosted over 86，000audience at home and abroad and thevisiting groups from various countriesand regions is the major driving forceof the steadily expanding audiencegroup. Audience groups from Nepaland Vietnam participated in the Expofor the first time. Australia， Poland，Germany， Korea， Malaysia， Japan，Turkey， Greece， Iran， India， Indonesiaand Hong Kong once again organizedbuyer groups. Besides， nearly 50 do-mestic visiting groups from South，North and West China (such as He-bei， Henan， Hubei， Sichuan， Tianjinand Guangdong) actively signed up tothe Expo.

\"The expanding supporting orga-nizations also proves that the Expo hashuge impact in the sector. Relevantassociations and organizations fromHebei， Jiangsu and Turkey greatlysupport us in terms of the emergingmarkets and product expansion， whichdrives the growth of the exhibitor orprofessional audience number，\" Mr.Cao added.

Automechanika Shanghai notonly attracts more and more sup-porting organizations， but also manynew brands， for instance， EXEDY，Liuzhou Wuling， Mesch， QingteGroup， Tenneco， China South Lo-comotive and Sinomach to the autoparts module; Haitian and JTC to themaintenance and repair module; andBMC， Brand-Rex， Huadian PowerfulAutomobile Accessories and Knorvayto the appliance and modificationmodule.

Many top brands of the threemodules once again participated inthis Expo. For instance， the auto partsmodule has such companies as Brembo，Beijing Automotive，\"Weapon Industry，Boruike， NTN-SNR， Chery， Hitachi，SAIC Motor， Schaeffler， TRW Auto-mobile， Wanxiang Automobile， XinyiGroup， Hongyang Industrial， Fawerand China Changan， the maintenanceand repair module has Berton， Besturn，Bosch， Haishiben， Jingwei Technology，MAHA Maschinenbau Haldenwang，OTC， Jonnesway， Ravaglioli， Stanley，Launch and Zhongyi Auto Equipment;the appliance and modification mod-ule has AKIMA， Donghao， Bullsone，Junda， Musicson， Strona， WD-40，Starworks， Cnlight， Yigu and Yunhan.

Various activities were held during the Expo to boostexchangdes in the auto sector

Many popular activities in the pastyears were also held at this Expo and 38activities in total enabled participants tothoroughly discuss the auto sector andimpress the exhibitors and audience.The activities in varieties covered all themodules ofthe auto sector. Statistics ofthe expo registration shows that severalseminars were almost fully signed up.Popular activities included 2014 AIAGAuto Parts Purchaser High-level andSupplier Seminar， 2014 InternationalAuto After-sales Market Industry As-sociation Summit， 2014 Auto After-sales Market Summit， 2014 China New High Auto International Summit，AUTOHAUS CHINA 2014 Interna-tionalAuto Dealers Summit， Insuranceand Auto After-sales Market StrategicCooperation Seminar and Auto After-sales E-commerce and Internet ServiceOutlo ok.

Jointly organized by MesseFrankfurt (Shanghai) Co.， Ltd. andChina National Automotive IndustryInternational Cooperation (CNAI-CO)， Automechanika Shanghai isone of the brand expositions of Auto-mechanika， which has held 14 profes-sional expositions across the world，such as Africa， Asia， Europe as well asCentral and South America.

\"I'm quite happy to see the ef-forts made by various parties. Thesupport of many old and new partnerscontinuously drives the growth of theExpo. Positioning at the boomingChinese auto market， AutomechanikaShanghai has become a grand annualevent among enterprises at home andabroad. I believe that all the exhibi-tors and audience will reap a lot inthis platform，\" said Ji Xuecheng， gen-eral manager of CNAICO.

Regarding the future develop-ment of the Expo， Mr.Ji indicatedthat since the Expo keeps expanding，Automechanika Shanghai will be heldin the National Exhibition Center ofShanghai Puxi Hongqiao District in2015 with a larger scale.