The China Maritime Exhibition is held annually in March alongside the China International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Equipment Exhibition (cippe). It features 2,000 exhibiting companies from 65 countries and regions, including 46 Fortune 500 companies and 18 international pavilions, attracting 150,000 professional visitors to an exhibition area of 120,000 square meters. It has become an annual Asian maritime engineering event covering the fields of marine engineering, marine oil and gas, and land oil and gas.