On November 22, 2019, "China Outlets Industrial Development Committee" was officially inaugurated and established in Beijing. Zheng Wantong, vice chairman of the 11th CPPCC National Committee and president of China Association for the Promotion of International Multinational Corporations ( CAPIMC ), and He Jihai, president of China Council for the Promotion of Economy and Trade and former president of China Federation of Commerce, jointly awarded and unveiled the plaque to the Committee. At the inauguration ceremony, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, current UN Secretary General Guterres, the World Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, the Global Outlets Alliance, and outlets chambers of commerce in more than 30 countries, including the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, sent congratulatory letters to congratulate the "China Outlets Industry Development Committee" and send representatives to participate the ceremony.
The main sponsor of "China Outlets Industrial Development Committee" is Outlets group, which once initiated the establishment of "Outlets Association of China Federation of Commerce". Mr. Lin Zhuoyan, the former president of Outlets Association of China Federation of Commerce, also serves as the chairman of the Committee.
The reporter noted that Outlets group is a world-famous operator of outlets investment, development and management. In 2010, outlets industry was in its infancy in China. It initiated the establishment of "Outlets Association of China Federation of Commerce", shoulder the important task of promoting industrial development and build a large industry wide resource platform for outlets, It has played an important role as a bridge and link in leading and promoting the development of China's outlets industry.
Now, after more than ten years of honing, outlets model is no longer a single business model. With its typical characteristics of diversity, aggregation and openness, as well as its own business model's continuous transformation, innovation, transformation and upgrading, outlets model has developed into a cross business model integrating commercial shopping, health and elderly care, leisure and entertainment, tourism and vacation, e-commerce, outlet agriculture and so on. At the same time, it has been derived to many industries and fields. For individual industries, it is having a subversive and revolutionary impact. It can be seen that the concept of "Pan outlets" has officially started and entered the stage of great step in development.
Under the new normal situation, China's outlets industry needs to be guided by a more scientific development strategy, supported by a more international management system and business philosophy, supported by a stronger international enterprise force and a broader platform for the transformation from a "single business model" to an "industrial development model". Therefore, Outlets group officially initiated the establishment of "China Outlets Industrial Development Committee". The establishment of the Committee conforms to the general trend of China's outlets industry reform, is the practical need for outlets industry to move towards agglomeration, specialization and internationalization, is also the requirement for realizing high-quality and rapid development of the industry, and is also a transformation, upgrading and leapfrog development of historical significance.
The head of the group said, "As a leading enterprise in the global outlets industry, we have the responsibility and obligation to contribute to the industry and play a role in the country and the nation. In the future, we will further accelerate the synchronization between China's outlets and the global outlets industry and promote the integration and win-win of China's outlets industry with Western countries; we will make every effort to make China's outlets Industry Development Committee The platform will become the main carrier of outlets' industrial agglomeration and the main position of outlets' industrial development.
He Jihai, president of China Council for the Promotion of Economy and Trade and former president of China Federation of Commerce, talked to reporters, "When Chairman Lin Zhuoyan introduced the outlets model into China, I was the president of the China Federation of Commerce. At that time, few people had a complete understanding of the concept of outlets. How to do outlets well in China? We have been discussing and studying. I propose Chairman Lin Zhuoyan and his enterprises to initiate the establishment of outlets under the China Federation of Commerce . Over the years, outlets association has done a lot of meaningful work. Now, with China's overall economic development and the continuous upgrading of the retail industry, outlets has also developed and expanded rapidly. It has developed from a single discount retail model to a new industry integrating shopping retail, catering and entertainment, tourism and health care and comprehensive experience. Therefore, it is timely and necessary to establish China Outlets Industry Development Committee at this time. It is not only an inevitable trend of social and economic development, but also of great significance to the orderly and healthy development of outlets industry. I believe that under the guidance of China Outlets Industry Development Committee, the exploration, innovation and development of China's outlets industry will contribute to the development of global outlets for positive reference ".
In his inaugural speech, Mr. Lin Zhuoyan, honorary chairman of the World Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, chairman of the Asia Pacific region of the Global Outlets Alliance and chairman of the China Outlets Industrial Development Committee, said that in the future, he would continue to integrate global outlets industrial resources, continuously expand development fields, and make use of science, technology and innovative means to countries along “Belt and Road” to create more industries. Its innovative mode will drive more industries and make China's own outlets as an innovative business model, providing an advanced industrial mode for all the other countries along the way, and making more contributions to the social and economic development of our country.
Attending the inauguration ceremony were Du Qinglin, Secretary of the Secretariat of the 18th CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the 11th and 12th CPPCC National Committees and honorary president of the China Association for the Promotion of International Transnational Corporations, Zheng Wantong, vice chairman of the 11th CPPCC National Committee and president of the China Association for the Promotion of International Transnational Corporations, and other parties and state leaders, including the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, representatives of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations University for Peace, as well as more than 100 leaders of the world's top 500 multinational enterprises, leaders of Chinese government departments, embassies in China, chamber of Commerce officials, representatives and economists also attended the ceremony and made speeches and dialogues to jointly grasp the opportunities and challenges in the changing world and explore the world. The sustainable development of economy, Chinese economy and outlets industry will make new contributions to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
