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The nine ‘bests’ at CIIE

(People's Daily Online)    09:11, November 06, 2018

The area for high-end equipment (Photo/Zhang Hengwei)

Among all the products, nine products attracted the most attention at the world’s first-ever import-themed national exhibition which started on Nov. 5, China News Agency reported on Nov. 4.

No. 1 Smallest pacemaker

The world’s smallest pacemaker made by Medtronic, a US medical service company with world leading medical technology will appear at the Expo. Weighing just two grams, the new type is only one tenth of the traditional one in terms of size.

No. 2 Planer milling machine

(Photo/Zhang Hengwei)

The largest product at the Expo is a planer milling machine that weighs 200 tons and covers an area of 200 square meters. It can be used to produce various types of complicated components and has attracted potential buyers to spend over 2 million Euros on it.

No. 3 Most dazzling diamond shoes

The world’s first pink diamond shoes will meet the public at the Expo. They are decorated with a total of 10,000 pink diamonds and priced at 30 million yuan.

No. 4 Leonardo Helicopters

(Photo/Zhang Hengwei)

Leonardo Helicopters from Italy will unveil the AW189, a helicopter worth 200 million yuan, making it the most expensive piece at the Expo.

No. 5 Flying car

(Photo/Zhang Hengwei)

The Slovakian company AeroMobil will launch the world’s first flying car in China at the CIIE. It’s known that the price of the coolest vehicle at the Expo has reached 1.2 to 1.5 million Euro.

No. 6 Flexible glasses

Italian eyewear brand Nannini will present a new type of highly flexible glasses. The lens and frame can be folded down to 9 millimeters. It’s customized for the Chinese market, said a senior executive.

No. 7 Lego wall

The cutest product must be the panda Jinbao in a 7-square meter wall made of 112,000 Lego blocks. It’s a piece of work created by eight people over a four-day period.

No. 8 SVH robotic hand

The anthropomorphic 5-finger hand gripper is amazingly similar to the human model in terms of size, shape and agility with nine drives enabling the five-finger hand to carry out gripping operations including the ability to hold a needle. German Chancellor Angela Merkel once “shook hands” with it at the Hannover Messe.

No. 9 Biofore Concept Car

The Biofore Concept Car from Finland was the first overseas product arriving at the convention center about 55 days prior to the opening.

In the Biofore Concept Car, the majority of parts traditionally made from plastics are replaced with high quality, safe and durable biomaterials. The vehicle runs on wood-based renewable diesel, reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80-percent compared with fossil fuel. 

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