The 15th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction

MACAU, June 21, 2024 — The 15th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (IIICF), co-hosted by China International Contractors Association (CHINCA) and Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), was held in Macao on June 20, 2024.

Recognized as a number one world occasion for infrastructure collaboration, the IIICF serves as a key worldwide platform to reinforce infrastructure connectivity beneath the Belt and Road Initiative. This yr, the discussion board attracted over 3,500 {industry} leaders from greater than 70 international locations, representing 800 organizations.

The theme of “Green Innovative Digital Connectivity” introduced collectively over 200 audio system to discover this burgeoning {industry} and to interact in thought-provoking dialogues on rising subjects together with power transition, digital evolution, inexperienced funding, ESG administration, digital integration of worldwide engineering initiatives, dispute decision, threat mitigation, and regional infrastructure connectivity. The discussions goal to contribute China’s experience and revolutionary options to worldwide infrastructure cooperation, catalyze new development in infrastructure partnerships between China and the international locations concerned within the Belt and Road Initiative, and foster consensus and insights for the sustainable growth of the worldwide infrastructure {industry}.

The exhibition space has expanded by 60% in comparison with the earlier yr, with greater than 90% of the cubicles custom-made to the exhibitors’ specs. The exhibition showcases 4 major highlights:

• Emphasis on Low-Carbon Environmental Protection: With inexperienced expertise on the forefront, the exhibition spotlights the newest developments in clear power, inexperienced constructing practices, energy-efficient materials improvements, sewage therapy strategies, and profitable sensible metropolis implementations;
• Innovation and Technology Leadership: The focus is on the show of building robots, clever sensing and monitoring tools, sensible scheduling programs, autonomous driving applied sciences, clever building strategies, novel engineering supplies, and prefabricated constructing options;
• Digital Integration and Intelligent Empowerment: A complete exhibition of digital infrastructure options and the applying of huge information, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in worldwide engineering initiatives. It may even showcase the newest practices in digital transformation for mission administration and city growth.
• Connectivity and Collaborative Success: Highlighting landmark initiatives that exhibit world infrastructure connectivity and China’s participation in joint building efforts in international locations and areas focused by the Belt and Road Initiative. These embrace ports, highways, bridges, railways, airports, and city growth initiatives, showcasing the energy of the “China Construction” model.

This yr’s concurrent exhibition on the discussion board has skilled a big enhancement, constructing upon the resounding success of final yr’s version. The occasion boasts an unprecedentedly sturdy lineup of exhibitors and organizations, comprising industry-leading engineering corporations together with China Communications Construction, China State Construction Engineering Group, and China Railway Construction, and extra. These corporations are famend for his or her robust technological prowess and useful resource integration capabilities. Alongside them are premier communications and tools producers, corresponding to Huawei, Caterpillar, and LiuGong, representing the forefront of digital intelligence and inexperienced innovation applied sciences. Furthermore, the exhibition additionally options delegations of native corporations organized by enterprise authorities from a number of provinces, additional enriching the range and depth of the exhibition.

This yr marks the 15th anniversary of the extremely profitable International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum. Over the previous decade and a half, the discussion board has attracted over 30,000 attendees from world wide, together with greater than 570 on the ministerial degree or above. The occasion has catalyzed the event of greater than 180 worldwide infrastructure initiatives, with a mixed contract worth surpassing US$100 billion. It has performed a pivotal position in fostering pragmatic cooperation in infrastructure funding and building between Chine