July 28, 2022, the opening ceremony of the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center and the preview of the first World Digital Economy Expo was held under the global attention of 71 embassies participating in the event and 50 embassies exhibiting in China. Qin Yong, the initiator and executive chairman of the World Digital Economy Forum, Wang Jinzhen, former vice president of CCPIT and former chief representative of the International Bureau of Exhibitions in China, Wang Chunwan, ambassador of Mauritius to China, Palitha Kohona, ambassador of Sri Lanka to China, Aldo Alvarez, ambassador of El Salvador to China, Gan Lu, director general of the EU Innovation Center Greater China, Duan Jing, vice president of the China Exhibition and Convention Economic Research Society, and More than 600 guests from China and abroad, including Vice Chairman Chu Xianzheng, attended through a variety of ways to celebrate the opening of the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center and its inaugural exhibition.

Wang Jinzhen, former vice president of CCPIT and former chief representative of the International Bureau of Exhibitions in China, said that as a global shared digital exhibition platform, the " WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center " was opened today and welcomed the first exhibition of the World Digital Economy Expo. This initiative will actively respond to the challenges of the new global epidemic, overcome the negative impact of the epidemic and promote the high-quality development of the exhibition industry.

Qin Yong, the initiator and executive chairman of the World Digital Economy Forum, said that the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center is the window of the World Digital Economy Forum to the world. In today's turbulent and uncertain world landscape, constant epidemic attacks and economic challenges, it has become especially important to establish a more innovative, practical and efficient marketplace trading platform. Seeing this historic change and opportunity, the World Digital Economy Forum made a decisive decision, implemented it efficiently, and took the lead in establishing this low-cost and high-efficiency metaverse digital convention center that is not limited by geography, space, or time, which not only solves the current dilemma of market transactions and international cooperation, but also seizes the first opportunity of metaverse industry development, thus establishing the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center as an industry model benchmark and leading convention and exhibition industry to a higher stage of development.

Qin Yong pointed out that the WDEF Metaverse will adhere to the four sharing concepts of "global sharing, exhibition sharing, industry sharing and technology sharing" to comprehensively build the global, professional and industrial influence of the World Digital Economy Forum. We will not only build a high-performance metaverse exhibition, but also a fully open and global open exhibition. We will gather the strength of all parties around the world to build and share, and comprehensively combine domestic and international digital exhibition technology and experts to build an advanced model matrix around the three-dimensional function of "communication, interaction and transaction". We will cooperate with domestic and international professional exhibition institutions to rapidly build digital exhibition achievements and contribute to the world to actively promote the recovery of global economy again.

Qin Yong emphasized that in the future, WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center will fully follow the "Five Common Principles" and "Four Sharing Concepts", and besides holding various conferences and exhibitions of the World Digital Economy Forum and World Digital Economy Expo, it will also aspire to In addition to hosting the World Digital Economy Forum and World Digital Economy Expo, the Forum will also aspire to become a great third party, providing shared exhibition services for local governments, universities, business associations and enterprises in China, and providing digital exhibition support for governments, international organizations, diplomatic institutions and enterprises in the world, offsetting the hindrance and impact of the epidemic on the traditional exhibition industry and helping global economic recovery and growth.

In this inaugural exhibition, National Pavilion, World Media Pavilion, Digital Government Pavilion, Digital Security Pavilion, Digital Agriculture Pavilion, Digital Culture Pavilion, Industry Digitalization Pavilion, Digital Industrialization Pavilion, Digital Education Pavilion, Digital Logistics Pavilion, K100 Plan Experience Pavilion, Brand to the Sea Pavilion, Global Collection Pavilion, Digital Medical Pavilion, Social Institution Pavilion, Digital Animation Pavilion, OID Theme Pavilion, Zhongguancun Independent Brand Pavilion, Digital Technology Pavilion The theme pavilions, such as the Zhongguancun Independent Brand Pavilion and the Digital Technology Pavilion, have been opened to the public.

In addition, Germany, UAE, Belarus, Singapore, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Lebanon, Togo, Botswana, Thailand, Chad, Ukraine, Mauritius, Timor-Leste, Mozambique, Ecuador, El Salvador, North Macedonia, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Niger, Hungary, Bangladesh, Tonga, Venezuela, Angola, Bahamas, South Africa, Philippines, Armenia, Iran, Malawi, Ghana, Uganda, Poland, Cambodia, Barbados, Iraq, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and other countries set up national pavilions to showcase the social and humanistic atmosphere and digital economy development of each country through the metaverse exhibition space.

Sri Lankan Ambassador to China Palitha Kohona said, today I am pleased to see that the World Digital Economy Forum has officially invested in the development and construction of the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center. This is the first global shared digital exhibition platform and I take this opportunity to extend my heartiest congratulations. I believe that the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center is a better solution for exhibitors to address the challenges of the global epidemic. It is a big step in the digital direction, and it demonstrates the high quality development of the MICE industry.

At the meeting, a digital approach was taken to hold the opening launch of the WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center. Qin Yong, the initiator and executive chairman of the World Digital Economy Forum, and digital people from diplomatic missions of Germany, Italy, UAE, Lebanon, South Africa, Tonga, El Salvador, Niger, Costa Rica and other countries approached the podium to launch the opening of the pavilion.

At the meeting, a donation ceremony was also held. Beijing BeiXinYuan Software Co., Ltd, a leading information security enterprise in China, actively responded to the Global Data Security Initiative proposed by the Chinese government and donated 2.16 million RMB Linkdood platform to the embassy in China jointly with the World Digital Economy Forum, a move that fully expressed the importance of BeiXinYuan enterprises to global data security.

To seize the strategic opportunities of the metaverse exhibition industry, WDEF Metaverse also announced on the same day the establishment of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Haikou, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Hohhot, Shenyang, Dalian, Urumqi and other cities, as well as Dubai, UAE, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Mexico, Uruguay, Syria South Africa, Ethiopia, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan and other countries operation centers, fully promote the operation and development of WDEF Metaverse Exhibition Center.