First China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Supply Chain promotion report release

Mr. Ren Hongbin, Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group and Chairman at the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).

He worked successively as Commercial Counselor (deputy director-general level) in China's Embassy in Hungary, Party Secretary and Vice President of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, MOFCOM (director-general level), Director-General of the Department of WTO Affairs and Director-General of China WTO Notification and Inquiry Center, Director-General of the Department of Foreign Trade and Deputy Director-General of National Mechanic and Electronic Import and Export Office, MOFCOM, Assistant Minister of Commerce and Vice Minister of Commerce. 

Shamika N. Sirimanne is the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics of UNCTAD.  She leads UNCTAD's trade logistics programme, including the work on trade facilitation, maritime transport, port management, and e-commerce and the digital economy. She also supervises UNCTAD’s largest technical cooperation programme, ASYCUDA—the Automated System for Customs. 

Ms. Sirimanne has extensive experience in development policy, research and technical cooperation gained from international organizations, national governments, think tanks and universities. Prior to UNCTAD, she served as the Director of the ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), where she spearheaded major regional cooperation programmes such as the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway initiative, and Regional Drought Monitoring Mechanism.

During her tenure with ESCAP, Ms. Sirimanne also headed the trade facilitation programme, and led the macroeconomic policy work and ESCAP’s flagship publication, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific. Prior to that, Ms. Sirimanne was with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where she led the economic policy team and the Economic Report on Africa, the flagship publication of ECA. She has also worked for the Canadian Ministry of Finance and the World Bank. Ms. Sirimanne holds a PhD in Economics.

Zhao Ping is the President of the Academy of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, a PhD research fellow.

Ms. Zhao has profound experience in research, funded by international organizations and governmental institutions. She has been involved in economic and trade research work for a long time, and has worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Ms. Zhao focuses on consumer economy, international trade, and E-commerce. She is the member of e-commerce Expert Advisory Committee of Ministry of Commerce, and the advisor of China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone and China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone. She is also the academic advisor for the "China E-commerce Report" published by the Ministry of Commerce every year.

Ma Li is Vice President of China International Exhibition Center Group (CIEC).

Mr. Ma is specialized in Exhibition Industry. In CIEC, he is in charge of the Business Groups of Project Development, Exhibition Organization and Data Service. In recent years, he has led the team making major achievements, economically and socially, in projects such as China International Supply Chain Expo, ITMA ASIA + CITME, CIMT, Auto China, Motor China, Print China, Cafe Show China.

Before his career in CIEC, he held the position of Director of Business Division, Dept. of Exhibitions and Events for China Chamber of International Commerce, and also Vice Chairman of CCPIT-Hainan.

Mr. Yu Huijiao is the Chairman and founder of YTO Express Co., one of China’s biggest logistic companies founded in Shanghai in 2000. He is a successful businessman and an expert in logistic industry. YTO is now a key player in the global supply chain and its business covers logistics, technology, air transport, financing, commercial service, etc.

In 2017, YTO made great progress overseas and has now expanded to more than 50 branches and offices in 18 countries and regions, with over 500 global franchisees and agents in more than 150 countries and regions.