At an exhibition booth of the ongoing 2023 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) held in Beijing, visitors are queuing up for free notebooks printed with Arabic architecture pictures.
The notebooks are special gifts for visitors prepared by Etihad Airways from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Italian staffer with the airline company’s Beijing office, who is in charge of the booth, uses simple Chinese to promote their business. The large number of visitors at the fair reflects accelerating recovery of China’s service trade.
Emirates, an airline company from the UAE that also participates in this year’s CIFTIS, has intensified the frequency of its air services to China starting from Sept. 1, based on the resumption of its Dubai to Beijing route this March. The company now has two flights bound for Beijing every day, as the passenger traffic service recovers to the pre-COVID level.—Xinhua
