(Yicai Global) Nov. 3 -- Last-minute touches are being made to the fourth China International Import Expo site before the world's top platform for promoting foreign products to the domestic market kicks off tomorrow in Shanghai. The five-day event will bring the world’s latest products, technologies and services to the Chinese public.

Some 58 countries and three international organizations have booked their spots to attend the country exhibition section, said Sun Chenghai, vice director of the CIIE bureau. Besides familiar names such as the US and Japan, the group includes a rising number of nations along the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as central and eastern Europe.

This year’s business section is larger and better structured, with a higher quality of exhibitors, Sun said. Almost 3,000 companies from 127 countries and regions across five continents will join. The total exhibition area has been expanded to 366,000 square meters.

Domestic buyers are lining up to attend the event. Some 39 trade groups and nearly 600 sub-groups are expected to visit for procurement.

Final touches are made to outside display areas at the National Exhibition and Convention Center.

Booths stand ready to be filled with the world’s latest products and technologies.

Workers at French energy and automation digital solution provider Schneider Electric rush to assemble the display booth.

Engineers test a spider-like robot at Japanese electronics firm Omron’s stall.

US conglomerate Honeywell, which makes products from airplane parts to smart home systems, gets its CIIE booth ready.

Editors: Zhang Yushuo, Kim Taylor