Founded in 2001, the Conference on International Exchange of Professionals (the CIEP) has been successfully held for 20 sessions so far. Based on the theme of "Pursuing Common Development and Benefiting Worldwide Professionals in the Drive to Scientific and Technological Innovation", the CIEP has become a national, internationalized and comprehensive exhibition and negotiation occasion for the exchange of international technological innovation talents. Party and state leaders including Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, Hu Chunhua, Zhang Dejiang, Li Yuanchao, Ma Kai, Cao Zhi, Huang Mengfu, Uyunqimg, Edmund Ho Hau-wah, and Hua Jianmin had attended the CIEP successively.

According to incomplete statistics, each session of the CIEP has attracted professional organizations to participate in the exhibition from more than 40 countries and regions such as the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, and South Africa. More than 35,000 foreign (overseas) experts, overseas students and professionals have attended the conference, and a total of over 10,000 projects have been launched.

With the Conference serving as a platform, we sincerely welcome high-quality resources from all parties to strengthen the comprehensive cooperation in technological innovation and international exchange of talents, to create a harmonious, stable, open, fair, mutually beneficial and win-win international innovation environment and to promote the building of an innovation community featuring equal cooperation and mutual benefits, and jointly share the “Chinese opportunity” of scientific progress and innovative development.