On February 17, the 2024 Spring Wire Mesh Industry and Trade Matchmaking Conference of Anping County opened at the Anping International Convention and Exhibition Center.The theme of this industry and trade matchmaking conference is "Party Building Empowers and Creates a 'New' Future". It is hosted by the Anping Wire Mesh Industry Chain Committee, co-organized by the Hebei Wire Mesh Industry Association, and undertaken by Anping High-tech Zone Investment Development Group Co., Ltd. Anping County actively explores a new model of transformation from government-run conferences to enterprise-run conferences. Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of entrepreneurs returning home for the New Year, it has built a development platform for entrepreneurs inside and outside the county to communicate with each other, display their image, sell products, and enhance friendship, promote the production and sales docking and deep integration of wire mesh products, and promote the high-quality development of the wire mesh industry chain.At the opening ceremony, Ma Zhanying, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and director of the office of Anping County Wire Mesh Industry Chain, introduced that this matchmaking meeting had many

highlights. Foreign merchants from countries along the Belt and Road and European and American buyers brought purchase orders of about 5 million US dollars to find cooperative merchants; buyers from Yiwu, Zhejiang and Xinxiang, Henan formed a group to attend the meeting, and wire mesh chambers of commerce from all over the country and wire mesh stores from counties and cities across the country came here to connect and negotiate with the participating wire mesh companies; the organizer recruited 20 English translators for each exhibitor to provide free foreign trade translation services for the companies.Feng Zhanling, secretary-general of the Shanghai Anping Chamber of Commerce, who attended the meeting, said that as business owners who have been abroad for many years, while developing our own companies, we must also give full play to the functional advantages of the front-line window, publicize the culture and investment environment of our hometown, promote our hometown products, introduce high-tech technologies and advanced scientific management concepts, so that the economic development of our hometown can remain youthful and vigorous under the strong drive of the wire mesh industry, and make Anping wire mesh more charming and attractive.A dual cultivation and awarding ceremony for AEO approved exporters was held at the opening ceremony, and Hengshui Customs centralized the issuance of certificates for four newly added AEO high-credit rating certified enterprises in 2023.This matchmaking meeting has a wire mesh product exhibition area and a wire mesh machinery exhibition area, with 217 companies participating. After the opening ceremony, merchants shuttled between the booths of various companies, stopped to visit, exchange and negotiate, and the scene was lively. "The products here are beyond expectations, the price is very cheap, and the quality is impeccable." Hasebi Ahammanshan, a Pakistani merchant who came to Anping for the second time, said, "This time I came mainly to find wire mesh and guardrail products. I will take the orders to the two target companies for further exchanges and negotiations, and bring the products back to Pakistan through trade."This production and trade matchmaking meeting lasted for three days from February 17 to 19. According to statistics, on February 17, the matchmaking meeting signed 27 intention orders totaling US$1.6975 million, and 12 groups of merchants went deep into 11 wire mesh companies for matchmaking and negotiation. During the matchmaking meeting, talent recruitment fairs, car shows, food festivals, and entertainment activities were also held.