On August 12th, the Information Office of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government held a press conference for the 32nd Guangzhou Expo, introducing the scale, highlights, and various special exhibitions of the 31st Guangzhou Expo. The press conference of the 32nd Guangzhou Expo witnessed the rich business environment in Guangzhou after 31 years of ups and downs. Wu Linbo, Deputy Secretary General of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, stated that the Guangzhou Expo, as a comprehensive exhibition for Sino foreign economic and trade cooperation hosted by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, has been held annually since its establishment in 1993 and has achieved fruitful results. It has become an important platform for promoting regional coordinated and high-quality development. As a shining business card of the booming development of Guangzhou's exhibition industry, it witnesses the profound business foundation of Guangzhou's establishment and prosperity due to business, and plays an important role in promoting economic and trade exchanges and cooperation, expanding development space, and promoting coordinated development. In recent years, Guangzhou has launched a series of exhibition support policies, such as the "Several Measures for Promoting High Quality Development of the Exhibition Industry in Guangzhou", to build an "International Exhibition Capital". These policies have significantly improved the internationalization, specialization, and digitalization level of Guangzhou's exhibition industry. This year, the Guangzhou Expo will resolutely implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, focus on building a high-level socialist market economy system, fully leverage the brand advantages of the Guangzhou Expo, and provide a platform for showcasing achievements and important exchanges and cooperation through market-oriented and rule of law operation to promote regional coordinated development, promote domestic economic circulation, deepen supply side structural reform, and create and develop new quality productive forces. Establishing comprehensive and professional exhibitions, striving to achieve "new vitality for old exhibitions, new charm for old brands". Zou Yonggang, Deputy Director and spokesperson of the Guangzhou Cooperation Office, introduced that this year's Guangzhou Expo will be held from August 23 to 26 in the A and B areas of the China Import and Export Commodity Fair, with a total exhibition area of about 120000 square meters and about 6000 booths. The exhibition includes three comprehensive exhibitions: Guangzhou Urban Exhibition, Domestic Provincial and Municipal Exhibition, and China County Expo, as well as six professional exhibitions: 2024 Guangzhou Rural Revitalization Exhibition, 8th Guangzhou Elderly Care and Health Industry Exhibition, 2024 Guangzhou Medical and Health Industry Exhibition, 9th Guangzhou Fresh Supply Chain and Cold Chain Technology Equipment and Prefabricated Food Exhibition, 2024 Guangzhou Automotive Aftermarket Exhibition, and 2024 Guangzhou International Elevator Exhibition. At present, all preparatory work is basically ready. Zou Yonggang introduced that the theme of this expo is "Innovative Development, Shared Future", adhering to the exhibition concept of "based in the Greater Bay Area, facing both domestic and foreign markets, and serving the whole of China". It fully implements the reform deployment of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the new requirements of the exhibition industry, innovates ideas and measures, improves the quality level, and strives to achieve the goal of "new vitality of old exhibitions and new charm of old brands". This expo will hold the "Full Space Unmanned System" exhibition for the first time, showcasing facilities and equipment such as drones, unmanned vehicles, unmanned ships, low altitude logistics, communication, navigation, and data service platforms, striving to provide a "Guangzhou sample" for the high-quality development of the national low altitude economy; Focusing on the promotion of Guangzhou Youpin and Guangzhou Youfu, comprehensively showcasing the development achievements of Guangzhou's advanced manufacturing industry, modern service industry, digital economy industry, cultural tourism industry and other aspects, and helping Guangzhou Youpin and Guangzhou Youfu to go national and global; Focusing on the new development pattern, with Guangzhou's targeted assistance and cooperation areas and domestic cooperation areas as the key, we will highlight the local excellent and new products, urban image, and investment environment, promote regional coordinated and high-quality development, and build exchanges and cooperation. In addition, this exhibition will specifically set up the "Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Projects" Achievement Exhibition, which will showcase the outstanding achievements of Guangdong and Guangzhou over the past year, as well as the highlights and characteristic experiences of Guangzhou's four provincial cities in the joint construction of city and county industrial parks and the assistance of towns and villages, providing the "Guangzhou experience" for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and promoting coordinated development of urban and rural integration. The mascots "Mianmian" and "Yangyang" of the 32nd Guangzhou Expo were unveiled at the press conference, and four measures were taken together to promote the high-quality development of the silver economy. In recent years, with the high-quality development of the silver economy, the professional exhibition "Guangzhou Old Expo" set up by the Guangzhou Expo has gradually become a focus of attention. The Guangzhou Elderly Expo has been held for seven consecutive sessions and has become an important platform for cooperation and exchange in the elderly care industry based in Guangzhou and facing the world, especially the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. Deng Jianqiang, Deputy Director and Second level Inspector of Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, introduced that this year's Old Expo will focus on the theme of "supporting the high-quality development of the silver economy", comprehensively enhance the platform level of this year's Old Expo, and strive to create new features, highlights, and achievements, mainly including four major improvement highlights. One is to comprehensively enhance the connotation of the exhibition and create characteristic themed exhibition areas. The exhibition scope of this year's Old Age Expo covers industries such as elderly care, healthcare, and home economics, and will focus on showcasing new products, technologies, services, models, and solutions for elderly care. Five new characteristic exhibition areas have been added, including the "Silver Age Art and Leisure Festival" special exhibition hall, the "Family Service Exhibition Area", the "National Travel and Health Care Joint Exhibition Area", the "Star rated Elderly Care Institution Joint Exhibition Area", the "Medical and Elderly Integration Joint Exhibition Area", and the "Silver Hair Leisure Experience Area". The second is to focus on the hot topics of the silver economy, with rich and colorful exchange activities. During the same period, more than 30 high-level forum activities will be held, focusing on hot topics such as smart health care, travel health care, medical and elderly care integration, aging improvement, and elderly care talents. Simultaneously holding events such as the supply and demand docking meeting for the "Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Projects" in Guangzhou. The third is to innovate and hold the first Silver Age Fun Festival, activating new experiences for silver hair consumption. The first large-scale Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Silver Age Fun Festival will be held, with multiple themed areas such as art competition stage areas, enriching experiential services for elderly visitors, and distributing nearly 1 million yuan in consumer coupons to create a silver haired consumer carnival. The fourth is to promote diversified linkage and cooperation, and advance the integration of elderly care and medical care services in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. A Guangzhou elderly care booth will be set up to showcase the practices and achievements of high-quality collaborative development of elderly care services and the elderly care industry in Guangzhou in recent years. At the same time, during this year's Old Age Expo, we signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department to promote elderly care in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and with the Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital on "Traditional Chinese Medicine+Elderly Care" services for elderly care service institutions, deepening cross-border elderly care cooperation in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, promoting the integration of medical care, elderly care, and health care, and promoting the coordinated development of the elderly care industry and the elderly care sector. (New Society)