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Rabat – Morocco participates in Expo 2019 of China, which began Sunday, May 26 and will run until Wednesday, May 29 in the capital of Guizhou Province, Guiyang, in southwest China.
Organized for the fifth year since 2015, this international event is the first global exhibition on big data. The Expo 2019 theme is "Data creates value, innovation drives the future".
Morocco will be represented by Abdelhamid Souiri, vice president of the Chamber of Advisers, and Mohamed Idrissi Meliani, director general of the Digital Development Agency (ADD).
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Speaking of Morocco's participation in a speech delivered at the opening ceremony, Souiri welcomed the last official visit of King Mohammed VI to China in 2016, emphasizing that it was strengthening Sino's collaboration and strategic partnership -Moroccan.
He added that the visit opened up prospects for strengthening political relations between Rabat and Beijing and bilateral cooperation, which would help create employment opportunities in the future.
The annual exhibition is experiencing strong participation and the number of participants has increased over the last five years. This year's event has 159 exhibitors compared to 59 last year.
Souiri recalled the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Morocco and China in November 2017 regarding China's Silk Road initiative, which he said was "a turning point" for both countries.
The number of participants expected at the annual event amounts to 100,000, a total of more than 400 companies, including 195 foreign exhibitors from abroad, compared with only 59 companies in 2018.
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