The 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services will launch a supply chain and business services exhibition for the first time, to showcase the advanced medium- and high-end services to build Beijing into international consumption center.

More than 180 supply chain and business service enterprises and organizations will attend the 2021 CIFTIS both online and offline, according to a Thursday report by Beijing Business Today.

The thematic exhibition, covering an area of 4,800 square meters, will be located in the No 12 Hall at the Beijing Shougang Industrial Park, one of the two venues of the fair, said Cai Xiaojun, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, at a news conference on Thursday, according to the report.

A total of 32 industrial pace setters have confirmed attendance in this year's event, with Fortune 500 companies and leading industrial companies accounting for 56 percent of all participants in this exhibition, the report said.

Enterprises such as the Beijing Capital Agribusiness Group, COFCO, Carrefour, Starbucks, Beijing Urban Construction Group and Beijing Energy Holding Co will display their latest products and services at the supply chain sub-exhibition area, while FESCO and online recruitment platforms Boss Zhipin and Zhaopin, as well as 34 law firms, seven arbitration agencies, and three notary offices with foreign business will attend the business services sub-exhibition.

Foreign express delivery firms, including FedEx, DHL and UPS, as well as eight domestic delivery firms, will also showcase their new products and services at the exhibition, displaying new equipment such as drones, driverless cars and self-mailing machines.