The China-ASEAN EXPO becomes more and more large in scale than the previous one. The 1^st Expo set up 2506 indoor standard booths with an exhibition area of 50,000 m². 1505 enterprises participated in the 1^st Expo as exhibitors and 18,000 people attended as purchasers; while at the 2^nd Expo, 3300 standard booths were set up with an exhibition area of 80,000 m². 2000 enterprises participated in the 2^nd Expo as exhibitors, among which, 1538 were Chinese enterprises, using 2518 booths and 462 were from outbound China, using 782 booths. Among the 25,000 exhibitors and purchasers participated in the 2^nd Expo, 12,000 were buyers from the Chinese Mainland and 6000 were buyers from outbound China.

Business and project matching services were strengthened at the 2^nd Expo. The China-ASEAN Expo Secretariat focused on inviting more purchasers to the Expo by extending invitations via the "Global Purchaser Database" set up by MOFCOM and via relevant chambers of commerce, and thus upgraded the quality of purchasers. On the other hand, 6655 investment projects from China and other countries were present at the 2^nd Expo, among which 5592 were Chinese investment inviting projects, 336 were overseas investing projects of Chinese enterprises, and 727 were investment inviting projects of other countries. Quite a number of businessmen successfully found their partners through the on-line matching system of the official website of CAEXPO as well as through various kinds of promotion conferences held during the course.