On the afternoon of October 17, 2007, the China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) 2007, which had lasted for 6 days and broken many records, had come to a successful end in Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center.
With nine years of development and improvement, The CHTF, featuring “state-level, international, high-level, large scale, pragmatic, professional and all-year-round”, has already become the largest and most influential technical exhibition in China known as “the No.1 Science and Technology Fair in China”. And what’s more, CHTF has helped more and more Shenzhen local enterprises to go to the world.
In CHTF 2007, 102 delegations from 36 countries and regions, 3527 exhibitors, 16067 projects and 3487 investors attended totally, which included 72 Multinational Corporations. Overseas exhibition’s area is 1,370,000 square meters. The proportion of Professional products of overseas enterprises exceeded 40%. The numbers of projects, investors, multinational corporations and overseas exhibition’s area arrived the top point in the history of CHTF. More than 20 delegations from USA, RUSSIA, France, Germany and other countries participated in the CHTF 2007. All delegations of Chinese provinces, municipalities, the cities directly under the jurisdiction of Chinese center government, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan attended CHTF 2007. More than 500 enterprises signed up Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange and 200 enterprises attended it. The numbers of attendees of Hi-Tech Human and Intellectual Resource Exchange is 25000. 260 media included about 1000 reporters reported the CHTF 2007.
During the six-day fair, there were totally 580,000 visitors (83, 000 each day on average) took in.
The statistics indicates that the proportion of professional attendee takes 75.5% in CHTF 2007. This is certified that CHTF 2007 has reached to the stated professional level. Popularity index of professional attendees is 157.7 (that means each exhibitor meets 157.7 professional attendees on average every day in CHTF 2007). 94.6% professional visitor achieved their purposes. The overall the score of the satisfaction of professional visitors is 3.82(Note: 5 points full marks). Among them, the satisfaction with hardware of exhibition hall scored the highest at 4.21. The following are the special activities and propaganda with the score of 3.87 and 3.80 respectively.
Regarding to the “exhibiting experience” research, we found 57% professional visitor has the former attending experience. Among them, 13.4% attended every CHTF in the past, which are the fans of the CHTF.
Compare to last year, the professional visitors have more intention to take part in the CHTF. The data indicated that 62.6% have already got the plan to participate the CHTF 2008.

————From 《China Hi-Tech Fair 2007 Show Report》