Announced by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the China Machine Tool and Tool Builders’ Association (CMTBA), the show will showcase the latest in manufacturing technology and bring buyers and sellers together from all over the world to the market of Chongqing and southwest China.

Chongqing’s economic growth was 11 percent in 2015, the fastest growth among 31 provinces in China. The total gross domestic product (GDP) of Chongqing and the six surrounding provinces accounts for 21.7 percent of China’s total GDP, at US$231.9 billion. Not only is Chongqing China’s largest automotive producer, it manufactures one-third of the world’s laptop computers and is a major motorcycle manufacturing location.

AMT president Douglas Woods stated, “We are thrilled to partner with China’s leading manufacturing technology association, CMTBA, to create a world-class manufacturing technology event in the robust industrial city of Chongqing. Our combined research recognises that Chongqing is a major production hub, and in the past 10 years we have seen more than 2,000 companies emerge — creating a huge expansion in the number of potential buyers for manufacturing technology products. AMT and CMTBA have been friends and colleagues since the first CCIMT show in 1989, and this collaboration represents a new level of commitment between our two organisations.”

The CCIMT is expected to fill 35,000 square metres of exhibition space with a target attendance of 50,000 coming from foreign countries including the United States.

APMEN News, Oct 2016