of event needs can be met thanks to this ver satility Further facilities include Hotel Inter continental and the NECC Commercial Plaza with its offices The shamrock shaped NECC started oper ating fully in 2016 after several test runs In October 2014 China International Auto Prod ucts Expo was staged as a small trial This was followed in March 2015 by a middle tri al advertising and printing fair Apppexpo and one month later a mega event Auto Shanghai In its first full year of operations its sold exhibition space approximated 4 3 million square metres For 2017 NECC fore casts an increase of more than 17 per cent to over five million square metres thanks to an expected 67 trade fairs and other events Currently all exhibitions at the National Ex hibition and Convention Center are organ ised by external companies But the opera tors are working hard to be able to stage their own trade fairs before long As for its relations with established ven ues in Shanghai such as SNIEC NECC con siders itself a vital addition to the exhibition scene having allegedly eliminated a long existing bottleneck in the development of Shanghai s trade fair industry due to its di mensions Hence it also targets trade fairs be yond the 200 000 square metre mark which is the size of SNIEC Such gigantic events are launched for one part due to huge demand in certain segments And for the other fairs can be integrated to represent the entire in dustry chain The largest event at the Na tional Exhibition and Convention Center is China Shanghai International Furniture Fair with 400 000 square metres of gross floor space followed by The Health Industry Sum mit tHIS with 350 000 square metres The mentioned Auto Shanghai and China Nation al Textile and Apparel Council Exhibition al so have large space requirements Strongly frequented industry events require the sup port of many service providers The tenants of the NECC office buildings are primarily ex hibition industry players This agglomeration is both practical and expected to have an ecological effect by minimising travel www cecsh com PB 72 TradeFairs Internation al 3 2017 INTERNATIONAL I n January 2011 the Ministry of Commerce of China and Shanghai Municipal Gov ernment decided to co build an extraor dinary trade fair venue This marked the kick off for the National Exhibition and Con vention Center NECC Construction work started eleven and a half months later and was completed after two and a half years This construction period is remarkable in view of the exhibition centre s gigantic di mensions Allegedly this was the largest in vestment ever made in an exhibition and convention complex in China With a total space of nearly 1 5 million square metres NECC is the country s largest event venue boasting 400 000 square metres of indoor hall space and a 100 000 square metre out door area for trade fairs There are 13 large and three smaller halls partly with different heights and ground load capacities All kinds CHINA A shamrock for trade fairs Shanghai s NECC is currently China s largest exhibition centre boasting up to 400 000 square metres of hall space for large scale events Die charakteristische Form eines Kleeblatts sorgt beim Shanghaier NECC für ein ziemlich futuristisches Erscheinungsbild Shanghai s NECC looks rather futuristic thanks to its distinctive shamrock shape Ph ot o N EC C

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