On November 23rd, 2010, bauma China 2010 was grandly opened in Shanghai New International Expo Center. Guests including leaders from Shanghai City, the managers of the exhibition organizers such as Zhou Yupeng, the vice director of standing committee member of Shanghai Municipal National People’s Congress; Qi Jun, the President of China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA), the relative person in charge of Shanghai bauma China 2010 and the visitors from the field of industrial truck industry attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition. On the site of opening ceremony, the celebration crackers drove all the attention of the visitors.

Bauma Shanghai 2010 has become the greatest gathering in construction machinery industry around the worldwide. The exhibition will last for four days with total exhibition area amounting to 210,000 square meters, an increase of 10% than the last exhibition two years ago. The outdoor exhibition area this year is nearly 110,000 square meters. The nine inside exhibition halls are arranged with an area of totally 100, 000 squares. On the exhibitions, there are 1858 exhibitors at home and abroad and about 120,000 visitors in these four days. According to the relevant data, the foreign exhibitors are mostly from Germany, Italy and America, and the exhibitors mainly specializes in the field of construction machinery manufacturing, raw material exploitation and processing equipment manufacturing and building machinery manufacturing as well as matching parts and service providers, which are divided into four main categories and 23 subcategories. Moreover, the products shown at the exhibition are oriented towards the market of China, Fast East, Africa and South America.

Against the fact that the global economy has entered the post-crisis age, bauma China 2010 is held in the theme of Catching the Upward Momentum, establishing an interactive platform for the construction machinery manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and the users around the world so as to offer another development opportunity for the construction machinery industry. The giants as well as the newly-emerging enterprises from the industry gather together, in order to complete industrial chain by conducting dialogues and communications with the up-streamed part suppliers, forklift manufactures and end users, searching for the cooperation opportunities for each other. As one of the most influential exhibition in Asia, bauma China 2010 would furthermore strengthen the developing power of global construction machinery industry.