Beijing. January is proving to be the China National Convention Center’s busiest month of the year and a total of 116 events were held in the first month of the New Year 2011; almost double the number held in January 2010 when there were 70 events. These events included 27 conferences with more than 700 delegates and one exhibition with 30,000 attendees.
Mr. Liu HaiYing, General Manager of China National Convention Center (CNCC) said, “This is the second January we have experienced since we opened our business and in this month we increased our total number of events by 46. As January is the most popular month for company annual meetings, I believe we will do better year after year as our venue becomes established as a key prestigious location within our city for this type of event.”
For the first full year of operation from 1st January to 31st December 2010, CNCC was the venue of choice for 663 events attended by more than 717,000 people; including 14 international exhibitions with 102,800 visitors and 54 international conferences with 74,658 delegates of which 21 qualified for ICCA statistics due to the rotation criteria. The most popular months for international events, as for other locations worldwide, remain October and September with June increasingly being requested.
